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Tim Knowles, Windwalk #1, 10.08.07
Wanderlust
Wanderlust is a solo exhibition of new work by Tim Knowles, exploring the concepts of endeavour and challenge.
The artist’s creative practice incorporates chance operations and performance. For his Windwalks and Nightwalks Tim Knowles acts as a contemporary flaneur, moving about the city and countryside via an unusual self-imposed set of rules. Akin to scientific experimentation, the results of the project are unpredictable and outside his control. For all its verve, there is something unnervingly lonely about Tim Knowles’ work.
In one of his Windwalks Tim Knowles set off from central London guided solely by the wind. For this piece he created an extraordinary-looking wind vane mounted to a helmet. His steps were dictated by the wind and traced with a GPS device. He documented the nocturnal city life he saw with a video camera.
The walks took place in the early hours of the morning, when the streets were quieter, and some nights were more chaotic than others. Whirling air currents bounced off buildings and lead the artist into a cul-de-sac of littered plastic bags and swirling leaves with no escape until the wind once again changed its direction.
The Nightwalks are a series of illuminated walks that Tim Knowles created in the countryside during a new moon. Over the period of an hour, the artist walked away from the camera while carrying three wide-beam torches. His path, along a precarious rocky ridge in the darkness, was illuminated and captured using a long-exposure, large-format photograph. The image invokes Plato’s allegory of the cave, appearing like a pathway of ghostly travellers shining inside an electrified landscape.
Tim Knowles has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe. For more information visit www.timknowles.co.uk.
Plymouth Arts Centre has enabled Tim Knowles to research new work in Afghanistan on an MoD sanctioned visit. He has also been working with Plymouth City Council examining approaches and developing a strategy for commissioning art in the public realm, funded in partnership with PROJECT. A new artwork is planned to be shown in a public location in Plymouth during the exhibition.
http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/art/future.html
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Wanderlusting with Tim Knowles
by Lucy Walker 04.06.09 11:44
Wanderlust is a super exhibition by the experimental artist, Tim Knowles. You may remember Tim's playful drawings made by trees, which were featured in a Plymouth Arts Centre in 2007. This new show presents his Windwalks and Nightwalks series.
Windwalks: A series of walks directed by the wind, filmed and plotted by GPS. Windwalk #1 is the first of a series of the windwalks, with further walks planned using different mechanisms and taking various different forms.
Nightwalks: A series of illuminated walks made at night and recorded as long exposure photographs. The Artist walks away from the camera [mounted on a tripod, shutter open] carrying 3 very powerful torches fitted with diffusers, the lights are connected to a 12volt battery in a backpack to prolong their life. As he walks the torches illuminate the route, drawing in the landscape. A number of walks have been completed so far following paths or compass bearings for approximately 30 minutes. This is an ongoing body of work.
Find out more about Tim's great work by clicking: http://www.timknowles.co.uk
