For this year's Somerset Art Works Open Studios event, CLOSE will be opening up the studio of our Artist in Residence Fiona Yates.  

Yates’ new body of work considers the dialogue between the human-made and digital art. Through replicating by hand a digital image, Yates investigates an idea of emotional void when work is made by machine rather than by hand. The pixel motif is the bond throughout the work; it represents the digital, but also process, repetition and time. 

Based on the remarkable depression at Trevone, North Cornwall, Yates’ ‘Sink Hole’ sculpture, brings together the fundamentals of her practice. Exploring both human-made and ancient processes, it looks at ideas of artefacts that have been buried and rediscovered. ‘Sink Hole’ takes the motif of the digital pixel, but evolves it into something more primal and ancient. Written descriptions of materials and methods used in the making of the work are given equal value to the works themselves; displayed and archived for future generations to observe lost processes in the making of art.