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St Mary and St Michael’s Church

Locked out response : Lead Window Graphite Rubbing

Stoke Charity, Hampshire. UK

2017

Artist Responding to St Mary and St Michael Church in Stoke Charity in Hampshire as part of Tessa Atton Doctoral Research. Tiny rural church, a long history, so many people have been walking down the long path into the church, leaving their footprint over the centuries and so many ways of interpreting them. Tessa Atton PhD research asks how artists might individually and collaboratively respond to this footprint and convey something of the spirit of the place.

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The Rotunda

‘Holding Place’ - Window Vinyl Wrap

(Sponsor by Trade Display Signs MYLO GRAPHICS)

Winchester School of Art. UK

2017

'Holding Place' a site-responsive window installation created especially for "Footprints' (of Stoke Charity) Exhibition, brings seven artists' responses together, creating a new set of footprints and a new set of responses. Tessa Atton has chosen an unusual space to place the work, one with its own set of footprints: the ground floor of the Rotunda at Winchester School of Art is a circular space that houses the library archives. Overhung by the airy, underused central part of the building, it has something of the feel of a crypt and hasn't been used as a gallery before. Tessa's research explores how the effect of a specific place is disrupted when superimposed on another place, creating a "new" place with its effect and asking the question Where am I?

Supported by PGR Activities Fund and part of The Festival Of Doctoral Research at University of Southampton.