Travel projects: Landscape, art, movement

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 525-535

  Merriman, Peter ^a   Webster, Catrin ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; LANDSCAPE; MOBILITY; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 70350536285     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474009340120     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Catrin has been exploring the role of journeys in shaping landscape experience since the early 1990s, and her art works on landscape and travel and the relationship between different 'architectures' and landscapes have been exhibited in a range of solo and group exhibitions, including: 'Mapping Wales' (Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Muscat (Oman), 1995), 'En Plein Air' (Aberystwyth and Cardiff, 1997), 'Walking in Rome' (British School in Rome, 1997), 'Travelogue' (Newtown, Wales, 1998), 'Transports: paintings from Italy and Greece 1996-98' (Swansea, 1998-9), 'Locomotion' (Worcester, 1998), 'The Wanderings' (The Samling Foundation, Lake District, 1999), 'In transit' (Naples, 1999), 'In A Marine Light' (South Shields, 2000), 'Place/Works on Paper' (London, 2000), 'Expanded View' (Ikon, Birmingham, 1998-99), 'Transports-Performance' (Rome, 1999-2000), 'Terra Firma' (Reykjavik, 2002) and 'The travel project' (Aberystwyth, 2007).
2. See e.g. P. Merriman, Driving spaces (Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2007)
3. P. Merriman, "A new look at the English landscape": landscape architecture, movement and the aesthetics of motorways in early post-war Britain', Cultural geographies 13 (2006), pp. 78-105
4. P. Merriman, G. Revill, T. Cresswell, H. Lorimer, D. Matless, G. Rose and J. Wylie, 'Landscape, mobility, practice', Social and cultural geography 9 (2008), pp. 191-212
5. P. Merriman, 'Lawrence Halprin, modern dance and the American freeway Merriman and Webster: Travel projects 535
6. landscape', in T. Cresswell and P. Merriman (eds) Mobilites: practices, spaces, subjects (Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2010).
7. This is not to suggest that car or train passengers, TV viewers or photographers are ever wholly 'passive' or 'immobile', but we are interested in the complex, relational, embodied mobilities and visualities of bodies interacting with vision and motion machines in landscapes.
8. C. Webster, 'Being there', Planet: the Welsh internationalist 122 (1997), pp. 17-25.
9. Merriman, 'A new look at the English landscape'; Driving spaces.
10. Catrin Webster, 'Painting, the built environment and landscape', Creating utopia (Newtown, Oriel Davies, 1997), pp. 59-66.
11. In addition to Catrin, the project team included Cath Sherrell (Visual Arts Education Officer, Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Mary Medlicott (storyteller), Becky Knight (artist) and Sue Jones Davies (actor). Sixty primary school children and teachers from three schools participated in the project: Holy Family School (Birmingham), Ysgol Llangynfelyn (Taliesin, Ceredigion) and Ysgol Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn (Ceredigion). See The travel project: encouraging rural and urban dialogue and exchange 2005-2007 (Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 2007).
12. C. Webster, 'Statement', in Mapping Wales/Mapio Cymru: recent paintings by Catrin Webster (Aberystwyth, Ceredigion Museum, 1995), p. 23.