Bram Arnold is an artist, pedestrian and writer who has just opened a new solo exhibition in Falmouth. With a working practice based on walking, his work is of great interest to me, as this and other journey-based themes are explored visually through maps, photographs and text. Bram had used the idea of intervention both in nature and in existing documents to produce unusual and very personal outcomes. In addition to these interventions, he also uses research and data collected from his own journeys to make work, providing an intimate insight into his personal responses to journeys that he has made. ‘Walking Home (Again)’ is the new show that has opened in Falmouth’s Fish Factory art space. It is an exhibition of a number of outcomes resulting from a journey that Bram took in 2009, walking from his home in London to where he was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The results of this walk are varied but what strikes me most are his text pieces ‘How To Walk’, a series of ‘text drawings’ that narrate Bram’s journey through the history of walking’s presence in literature. His own addition of text and annotations make the pieces very personal, and an all-round experience that gives a sense of Bram’s place in the world in relation to the journeys that he has made.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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