Blog/Projects
The Lost Weekend
March 2014
“A pause in the conversation and a weekend lost again to the thick warm air. No need to reply with haste; words float in and out of these transparent walls like the scented lives who occupy it. Another lull. Another long, hot, stupor. Limbs like the thin lead piping; heavy supports for the weightless surroundings. Small debris blankets the warm concrete; a quiet thrum of discomfort that interrupts the stark, engulfing daylight with the faded figures of nightfall....
Narrative in Visual Art
Collection of text by Captain Lightfoot and Collaborators
2013
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"If a picture tells a thousand words then an exhibition has the potential to be something of an essay; however in creating an environment of pictures, imagery and visual provocation, context and sequence become crucial to interpretation and understanding. To think of art as language and to allow form and colour to tell a story is a beginning, but even if a single image can be quantified as just a thousand words, then the translation of each word allows for variation and exponential mutation of the artist's story in their uptake, keeping the ending fluid in a way that a final page, falling curtain or rolling credit cannot be....
Captain Lightfoot Presents...
August 2014
Captain Lightfoot Presents... held a family workshop to create three-dimensional stories. Provided with a variety of materials and a short narrative participants were encouraged to make their own sculptural collage, in response to the exhibition and surrounding grounds.
"Jam sandwiches cut in to triangles, orange juice with no 'bits', cupcakes of all colours- pretty pinks, greens and blues with shiny cherries on top! But now its time to wipe my sticky hands and leave this giant picnic blanket- it's time to explore...
The Usher
8th October 2015
The Usher is the next group exhibition by artist run collective Captain Lightfoot. Working in collaboration with Novia and the YA Fine Arts department Captain Lightfoot will present new works by the three members of the collective; further exploring their ongoing research into narrative in visual art and curating.
Stripping Galleri Gro of its own light and structure a little like the creeping Finnish winter, Captain Lightfoot will create a new and unfamiliar space for the viewer; one primarily of darkness. The Usher is a performative exhibition that intimately leads the viewer through its space. Different artworks and details of the building emerge from the darkness; exposed for varying lengths of time these artworks demand the viewers attention before disappearing again...
