Erin Dickson

About

After being awarded a FACT Together digital residency in 2021, Erin produced Harton Moor (2022), an animated guided tour of a 1970s council estate in South Shields. The estate is presented as an idealised architectural model set against the personal narrative of a child resident, Jessica. The 1:1 representation of the streets and houses of Harton Moor is rendered in uncanny detail within a colourless, translucent world without the marks of human interaction. 

A pristine virtual flyover of the site is interrupted by the messy realities described by Jessica, revealing the complex relationships on her street. Offering elements of truth and fiction, Harton Moor exposes the friction between the perspectives of the imagined architect and actual resident, where reality sits somewhere in between.

For this presentation, Erin has produced lifesize 3D printed sculptures of Jessica and her neighbour and fellow Harton Moor resident, Dave, who sit within the space. 

These new works by Erin are presented in FACT's gallery space designed by Chila Kumari Singh Burman, alongside works by fellow resident artist, April Lin 林森. 

About the residency

FACT Together was set up in 2020, in response to the financial uncertainty caused by Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the temporary closure of galleries and museums across the world. The opportunity is open to early-career artists based in the North of England and awarded artist are invited to develop their ideas with support from FACT's team. The open call asks artists to submit ideas that can be shared digitally which has resulted in hundreds of proposals for podcasts, live streams, games, gifs, animations, performances, short films, social media takeovers, interactive artworks, workshops and more.