TY - ADVS
T1 - 600 PIECES OF LANDSCAPE: CHALK STREAM
T2 - 600 Pieces of Landscape: Chalk Stream
A2 - Godman, Rob
A2 - Cory Wright, Harry
A2 - Romano, Kate
N1 - Harry Cory Wright is a leading landscape artist working in photography, drawing, painting and relief. For the Granary, he has created a site-specific exhibition responding to our local chalk stream habitat, one of the rarest and richest ecosystems on the planet.
600 Pieces of Landscape: Chalk Stream is a site-wide exhibition formed from 600 small hand-painted wooden panels, all representing some aspect of the Granary's chalk stream landscape through colour, shape, texture or via superimposed photographs. By reducing a real landscape to its most basic components, Harry Cory Wright has created a 'play kit' of building blocks with which to construct imaginary abstract landscapes. Over three distinct areas in the Granary, these 600 unique units are positioned in different linear and layered formations, the patterns and rhythms suggesting horizons or composite views. Some of these arrangements are curated by the artist, and some by the visitor.
A building within a building: sound within sound
Closest to the chalk stream habitat, visitors will find a full size shed installed in the Orchard Room. Hundreds of painted panels are laid out randomly on shelves, and visitors are encouraged to playfully arrange these units on boards to create their own abstract response to the landscape. A specially commissioned sound installation by composer and field recordist Rob Godman will play continually in the Orchard Room. 'Sound within Sound' is made up of two ecosystems: the familiar sounds of the chalk stream habitat (birds, wildlife) are heard on entry to the room, and the unfamiliar underwater acoustic of the chalk stream itself, generated by two hydrophones placed at the bottom of our stream, can be heard inside the shed.
Harry Cory Wright describes the shed installation visitor experience:
'As you choose and arrange the pieces in the shed, you might consider aspects of the stream that you have not seen or thought of before. It might be as you see it now in summer with all the varying visual aspects of water life in the early morning, the heat of midday or at night. You might choose pieces that made you think about life underwater, imagining the creatures and plants that thrive in the extraordinary habitat. You might choose pieces that help you imagine what it might have been like to be here a hundred or a thousand years ago. You might consider what it could be like here in the future. This installation provides an opportunity for a ‘piecing together’ of colours and images, finding your own patterns and clues that suggest a very personal experience of being in landscape'.
PY - 2025/7/3
Y1 - 2025/7/3
N2 - Harry Cory Wright is a leading landscape artist working in photography, drawing, painting and relief. For Stapleford Granary, Godman and Wright have created a site-specific exhibition responding to the local chalk stream habitat, one of the rarest and richest ecosystems on the planet.
Visitors will find a full size shed installed in the Orchard Room of Stapleford Granary. Hundreds of painted panels are laid out randomly on shelves, and visitors are encouraged to playfully arrange these units on boards to create their own abstract response to the landscape. The specially commissioned sound installation by composer and field recordist Rob Godman plays continually in the Orchard Room. 'Sound within Sound' is made up of two ecosystems: the familiar sounds of the chalk stream habitat (birds, wildlife) are heard on entry to the room, and the unfamiliar underwater acoustic of the chalk stream itself, generated by two hydrophones placed at the bottom of the stream, can be heard inside the shed.
AB - Harry Cory Wright is a leading landscape artist working in photography, drawing, painting and relief. For Stapleford Granary, Godman and Wright have created a site-specific exhibition responding to the local chalk stream habitat, one of the rarest and richest ecosystems on the planet.
Visitors will find a full size shed installed in the Orchard Room of Stapleford Granary. Hundreds of painted panels are laid out randomly on shelves, and visitors are encouraged to playfully arrange these units on boards to create their own abstract response to the landscape. The specially commissioned sound installation by composer and field recordist Rob Godman plays continually in the Orchard Room. 'Sound within Sound' is made up of two ecosystems: the familiar sounds of the chalk stream habitat (birds, wildlife) are heard on entry to the room, and the unfamiliar underwater acoustic of the chalk stream itself, generated by two hydrophones placed at the bottom of the stream, can be heard inside the shed.
KW - chalk stream
KW - hydrophone
KW - Stapleford Granary
UR - https://www.staplefordgranary.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-overview/harry-cory-wright-600-pieces-of-landscape-chalkstream
UR - https://soundcloud.com/goddery
M3 - Exhibition
PB - Stapleford Granary Arts Centre
CY - Cambridge
Y2 - 3 July 2025 through 31 August 2025
ER -