About
Paul Gedge is an Autistic Painter-Printmaker and an Associate of Kings Street Artists. He has exhibited with them and at Short Supply’s Made It. Paul’s practise, in a continuation from his BA project “Impact Landscapes”, seeks to combine his printmaking and installation-based practise into an exploration of Climate Change and humanity’s part in it. Drawing upon a large body of exhibition work, Paul combines individual prints and statues into a single installation whose individual parts, referencing detective programmes, seek to present a narrative in the form of evidence documenting the positive and negative impact humanity has had on the environment. Paul seeks to present that there is still hope as long as we work together to address Climate Change, Paul has engaged in a period of constant experimentation exploring the possibilities of drypoint printmaking and expanding his practise into installation work seeking to draw the viewer into an exploration of the narratives of Climate Change through the medium of a detective’s investigation. Asking the viewer to step into the detective’s office, Paul hopes the viewer will explore the narrative of the detective’s investigation into Climate Change with him.
Project overview
Impact Landscapes
Impact Landscapes Impact Landscapes seeks to document our impact as a species on nature, addressing our effect on both Flora and Fauna. Producing a large collection of prints and three statues, I have created an installation piece spanning the full breadth of my exhibition space. Entering the space you’ll encounter a pair of Junior detectives, Feral foxes. These Junior detectives are helping the main character within the ‘office’ installation I’ve created for my ‘detective’ Renard Fox with his exploration of the multifarious ways humanity have impacted their environment. The sum total of the evidence present, the collection of prints, fills the space of the walls. Looking it over, the detective and his juniors behold these snapshots of their attempts to decide how much harm and how much good we, as a species have done. They watch everyone who enters, taking in how people react just as much as they assess the maps, newspaper articles and evidence prints linked together by the cords for their consideration. Visitors to the exhibition are welcome to explore the evidence on display under the eyes of the detective and his assistants.
One of the installation walls, just next to the 'door' depicts a wide selection of prints around a map, cords are used to connect part together.
Forest of bowland installation wall part.
Wall section.
Another section of the installation.
