Exhibition and Events
The artwork developed as part of Bordering culminated in a scattered site exhibition which took place during October and November 2006.
Ruth Jones produced a live event at Oswestry's Old Racecourse; Stefhan Caddick and Simon Whitehead created a mobile sculpture, which they pushed across Oswestry to Offa's Dyke; and TEA, in addition to making two videos for presentation in Qube, temporarily occupied a stall inside the Market Hall. These projects were brought together at Qube, which functioned as both an exhibition space and the project hub.
This section provides visual documentation of the site-based projects and performances and the exhibition of work at Qube.
Ianuae: Ruth Jones
Ianuae has evolved from the artist's observations and research into the impact that horses have had upon the Oswestry and border area, through agriculture, racing and through the town's location on the London to Holyhead mail coach route. A second strand of research explored the mythological association of the black horse with the people of old Celtic Britain and the white horse with the arrival of the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
Walking Wall: Simon Whitehead and Stefhan Caddick
Responding to the relative invisibility of the border between Wales and England, both on the ground and in contemporary mapping, Stefhan Caddick and Simon Whitehead have created a 'mobile barrier' in order to explore the ways in which borders are physically manifest.
TEA in Oswestry
This project explores Oswestry as it is encountered by 'the visitor'. Taking as their starting point how Oswestry is portrayed as a tourist destination, the artists have worked at two sites that embody important aspects of the town's marketed identity - the Castle Mound and the Market.
Bordering exhibition at Qube
The exhibition at Qube housed individual project elements, including film and sculptural installation, together with written and visual documentation of the research processes through which each project evolved.