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A new place for the blog
I’ve moved the blog from the front page. I think having it on the front page was giving me writer’s block. So here is an informal aside.
New fernhill album canu rhydd
fernhill release a new album, canu rhydd. I designed the album artwork for it. You can listen to / buy the album here. It is really lovely celtic folk music that blossoms with repeated listening. Christine Cooper, who plays the fiddle and voice on the album, was a classmate of mine at Dartington College this…
Design contributions to the Ultimate dART MA Show at Dartington College of Arts
This past July, I had the honour of having my designs selected to be the public face of the last MA show at Dartington College of Arts, before its dubious “move” to University College Falmouth. Â I’ve included some examples here. The MA students held a design competition to select the visual identity for Ultimate dART.…
The Audio for the Landscape Resounds Paintings
Including the sound with the paintings was new for me. If landscape painting traditionally places the ‘subject’ as the audience or the painter, I think the sounds helped to create ‘subjects’ in the paintings… “Resounding Landscapes” Click the images to enlarge. The audio for each painting is directly below. Swallowfields [audio:http://noelhefele.com/audio/painting-sounds/10-plantation-7-16.mp3] Make-shift Shelter [singlepic id=83…
Landscape Resounds: Research Photographs
These photos are the ‘b-sides’ of some of the landscape explorations leading up to the exhibition.
Landscape Resounds: Video of the Installation
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP1Ach0SmM&feature=player_embedded Landscape Resounds was my MA show contribution at Ultimate Dart – The Dartington College of Arts MA show for 2010. The installation featured 11 four foot square paintings of Totnes and Dartington. Each painting also had a ‘soundscape’ that was playing from speakers behind the canvases. These soundscapes were composed of sounds recorded at…
MA Arts and Ecology Portfolio
My main work effort for the year was the Landscape Resounds exhibition. This work was developed and tested through smaller exhibitions throughout the year: The Landscape Thinks Itself in Us exhibition and the Exchange exhibition. I have clarified the methods and process of my practice: I had the time to think about photography as a…
The Sitting Cows
This oil painting on canvas measures 2′ x 2′ When I first arrived in Dartington, I was told that the cows sit down when it is going to rain. I was unable to directly prove this during my time here, but it seems possible. It brings up interesting questions about the sensory perception of animals.…
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