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Simon Ryder

@artnucleus

Artist at work: experiments, encounters, actions, and occasional thoughts, whilst working towards the next artwork.

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Giants reborn No.4 simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…
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TW04 Giants reborn #4

So what are these sketches for? Will I ever make them come alive? Might they actually walk “upon England’s mountains green”? That I can’t tell you yet: at this stage they ar…

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Giants reborn No.3 simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…
TW03 Giants reborn #3

TW03 Giants reborn #3

And they keep coming. This one is clothed in wool.

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The giants are back simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

TW02 The giants are back

At base, this investigation is above reconnnecting with the land, and in my case that is the part of the country I grew up in, the chalklands of England. So the Giants of Albion are back, this time…

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Let the books lead simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

TW01 Let the books lead

It’s a wonderful adventure when the book you are currently reading suggests the next, and the next, and the next, and before you know it you are reading about stuff that you never thought you…

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And on and on simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

And on and on

Some things just stick in my mind so strongly (perhaps because they reflect its internal architecture?) that I find myself returning to them repeatedly as a possible starting point for new work. So…

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Photographing Resistance 01 simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

Photographing Resistance 01

Each day this week I’ll show three of the portraits I’ve just completed, now on show as ‘Photographing Resistance’ at the Forum, University of Exeter. Each tableau consists …

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Point portraits simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

Point portraits

Opening on the 15th of this month, at University of Exeter’s Forum, my first commission to create portraits, this time of researchers in the Anitmicrobial Resistance (AMR) Network. Each portr…

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Branches and roots simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…
Branches and roots

Branches and roots

The New Forest Imaginarium is next up: opening at the end of the month in Sway, Hampshire, right in the heart of the Forest. I’m now working on the LIDAR (point cloud) scans Nat and I took in…

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Just Add Water 5 simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

Just Add Water 5

The visualisation of the moisture data is progressing. Now in our last week of getting this video together.

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Just Add Water 4 simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

Just Add Water 4

My latest scan for ‘Just Add Water’. A combination of four different scans. There is a quiet frozen quality to these 3D models – a still life in point cloud (in this case 8 millio…

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Just Add Water 3 simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

Just Add Water 3

Flat out on this video for Plymouth University’s Sustainable Earth Institute. Plenty of hiccups along the way, but exciting to try new processes. This is storyboard version II. I’m work…

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Just add water #2 simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

Just add water #2

Working on visualisations of moisture data with Nat. Here are some early experiments.

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The Llantony Preview, some images from last weekends event. simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

The Llantony Preview

Some images from this outing of Surface Tensions – HERE

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Starting today, this project is now up and running. simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

New Forest Imaginarium

Back in the New Forest to get this project off the ground, now that things are opening up after lockdown. Based at spudWORKS, I’ll be scouting the forest for suitable locations to scan and st…

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Just add water simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

Just add water

These are the ingredients for making cob, or more to the point the updated version of cob, cobbauge, that they are developing at Plymouth University. I’ve been down there the last couple of d…

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Time to emerge simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…
Time to emerge

Time to emerge

Emerging from lockdown like a Mayfly from the river, Surface Tensions can be seen for the 1st time on the last weekend in May – three days only! So if you are anywhere near Gloucester it woul…

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Helmholtz 2.0 simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…
Helmholtz 2.0

Helmholtz 2.0

Hermann von Helmholtz, (1821–1894) is often considered to be one of the last polymaths in science: the final incarnation of a time when the whole of science could be grasped by a single person. Sin…

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Ichor simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…
Ichor

Ichor

The word ‘petrichor’ refers to the wonderful scent given off by dry earth when rain falls upon it. It comes from the Greek: ‘petra’ for rock, and ‘ichor’, which …

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Tamp ‘Em Up Solid simonhryder.wordpress.com/20…

Tamp ‘Em Up Solid

It’s a new word to me: tamp. It’s when you pack something down firmly, avoiding too much pressure that it becomes squashed: in the world of earth building that would be rammed earth con…

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