Layla Curtis, 2006

Venue: The New Art Gallery Walsall

Places:

Walsall

UK

Solo show

Curator: Co-curated by VIVID and New Art Gallery Walsall

21 July - 10 October 2006

The exhibition includes work produced as a result of the artist's three-month Arts Council England International Fellowship to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey in 2005. Also included is a new video installation Sky Drawings (Night, Day), which focuses on vapour trails made by aeroplanes in the sky above the West Midlands.

Related publication: Layla Curtis, published by New Art Gallery Walsall and Locus+
Related essay: A Congregation of Vapours by David Barrett published by ViVID

Exhibition developed in association with Locus+ and VIVID. Sky Drawings (Night, Day) commissioned and produced by VIVID.

Related works

Polar Wandering

Rothera Research Station, Antarctic Peninsula, 67.567°S, 67.127°W, 553 hours 40 minutes 42 seconds; 149.6 miles

Sky Blu, Antarctic Peninsula, 74.856°S, 71.571°W, 145 hours 39 minutes 45 seconds; 24.6 miles

Remote Field Site, West Antarctica, 78.399°S, 86.298°W, 1 hour 40 minutes 20 seconds; 3.7 miles

Choiseul Sound, Falkland Islands, 51.956°S, 58.580°W, 8 hours 34 minutes 20 seconds; 15.3 miles

Signy Research Station, South Orkney Islands, 60.708°S, 45.596°W, 8 hours 40 minutes 2 seconds; 8.8 miles

King Edward Point, South Georgia, 54.283°S, 36.496°W, 81 hours 3 minutes 4 seconds; 30.2 miles

Bird Island Research Station, South Georgia, 54.008°S, 38.051°W, 62 hours 4 minutes 51 seconds; 16.5 miles

Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, 51.691°S, 57.824°W, 227 hours 21 minutes 3 seconds; 175.1 miles

South Atlantic Ocean (North West of South Georgia), 53.679°S, 38.353°W, 237 hours 41 minutes 33 seconds; 1251.4 miles

Rothera Research Station, Antarctic Peninsula, 67.567°S, 67.127°W, 580 hours 21 minutes 31 seconds; 80.5 miles

Horizon (Port, Starboard)

Sky Drawings (Night, Day)

Hemisphere Tracings (Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere)

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