Steve Messam
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Steve Messam is an environmental artist based in County Durham, UK and working internationally. His ephemeral site-specific installations re-imagine the everyday, interrupting historical landscapes and vacant architecture to help us perceive the familiar environment in a new way. Messam’s works seek to explore and uncover the layers of narrative within the rural environment, frequently drawing on existing uses of the land and reflecting an understanding of the geological, cultural and agricultural practices already being used to shape the landscape. From working with farmers to re-imagining vernacular architecture, his ephemeral, site-specific art installations uncover hidden stories and help a deeper understanding of place. Working on a scale that is typically ‘bigger than a house’, his works explore the colour and scale of place. His inflatable textile works include a suite of pieces that filled historic ruins in a Scottish castle gardens and wrapped a seating shelter in Blackpool. Other works include ‘PaperBridge’ (2015) - a functioning packhorse bridge made from 22,000 sheets of paper in the Lake District; and ‘Hush’ (2019) - a lead-mining scar in the North Pennines landscape filled with over five kilometres of saffron-yellow fabric. He created the first off-site installation at the 2006 Shanghai Biennial and created a number of site specific installations across the Venetian Lagoon during the 2009 Venice Biennale. In 2021 he was awarded ‘Visual Artist of the Year’ at the Newcastle Journal Culture Awards.
Steve Messam 是一位环境艺术家，常驻英国达勒姆郡，并在世界各地工作。他的短暂现场特定装置作品重新想象日常生活，打断历史景观和空置建筑，帮助我们以新的方式感知熟悉的环境。 梅萨姆的作品试图探索和揭示农村环境中的叙事层次，经常借鉴土地的现有用途，反映对地质、文化和农业实践的理解，这些实践已经被用来塑造景观。从与农民合作到重新构想乡土建筑，他的短暂的、针对特定地点的艺术装置作品揭示了隐藏的故事，有助于加深对地方的理解。 他的作品通常 "比房子还大"，探索地方的色彩和规模。他的充气纺织品作品包括填充苏格兰城堡花园历史废墟和包裹布莱克浦座位棚的一系列作品。 其他作品包括 "纸桥"（PaperBridge，2015 年）--在湖区用 22,000 张纸制作的一座功能齐全的驮马桥；以及 "嘘"（Hush，2019 年）--北奔宁山脉景观中的一个铅矿疤痕，上面铺满了长达五公里的藏红花黄色织物。 他在 2006 年上海双年展上创作了首个场外装置，并在 2009 年威尼斯双年展期间在威尼斯泻湖上创作了多个特定场地装置。2021 年，他被授予 "年度视觉艺术家 "称号。
作品 the Architect of Ruins |
作品 Bridged |
作品 Portico |
作品 Jetty |
作品 4 |
作品 Trestle |
Apollo - Peterlee, County Durham. September 2019
Hush - Upper Teesdale, County Durham. July 2019
Human Presence - Hanstholm, Denmark. May - August 2019
Cell - visual design for new dance production, Powys Dance, Wales, UK. March 2019 -
PaperCatwalk - The Bowes Museum, Co. Durham. UK. June 2018 - January 2019
Whistle - Great Exhibition of the North, Newcastle. UK. June - September 2018
Flotilla - Paddington, London. UK. March 2018
Keep - Keswick and Kendal, Cumbria. UK. September 2017
PaperArch - Vienna, Austria. May 2017
Waterfall - Teesdale, Co. Durham. UK. October 2016
When the Red Rose… - Lancashire, UK. September - November 2016
Tower - Kirkleatham Old Hall Stables, Redcar. UK. September 2016
Lotus - Bicester Village, Oxfordshire. UK. February 2016
PaperBridgeChina - LiGongDi, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. November 2015
Rive - Honister Slate Mine, the Lake District, Cumbria. UK. September 2015
Bunker - Cold War Bunker, York. UK. May 2015
PaperBridge - Grisedale Valley, the Lake District, Cumbria.UK. May 2015
Level - Key Arts Centre, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. UK. February 2015
Tunnel - Victoria Tunnel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. UK. October 2014
Ravens - Stanbury, Haworth, West Yorkshire. UK. July 2014
Lookout - Dunmail Raise, Grasmere, Cumbria. UK. June 2014
Scope - Borrans Park, Ambleside, Cumbria. UK. June 2014
Artist in Residence - Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Scotland. October 2013
En Paviljong som Lyssnar på Skogen - Sättra, Öland, Sweden. September 2013
Poppy - Burneside Paper Mill, Kendal, Cumbria. UK. July 2013
Carpet - Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island, Northumberland, UK. June 2013
Red Souvenir - Bicester Village, Oxfordshire, UK. February 2013
Brogued - Northampton, UK. October 2012
Fairhaven Bubbles - Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, UK. July 2012
A Study in Red - Sättra, Öland, Sweden. May 2012
Twisted - Cromford Mill, Derbyshire. UK. May 2012
Brockholes Souvenir - Brockholes, Nr. Preston, Lancashire. UK. March 2012
SevenSpires - Braunston, Northamptonshire. UK. August 2011
Lawnpaper - Blackwell, The Lake District, UK. June 2010
Signs of Adventure - Cumbria. October 2009
Fleur de Sel on Ullswater - the Lake District. September 2009
Cloud Cube - Lancaster University. July 2009
Fleur de Sel - Spazio Thetis, S’Erasmo & La Certosa (Venice) June - August 2009.
Drop - Cumbria, UK. September 2008
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