𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓰𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰…
Commissioned by @2021visualarts as part of their @tate and @nationalgalleriesscot ARTIST ROOMS: Jenny Holzer presentation, back in April we ventured through the public spaces and shared sites of Scunthorpe to try to understand what it is that makes somewhere ‘public’.
Using methods of image making, clay relief, mark making, writing, sound recording, drawing, and conversation, we passed through three of Scunthorpe’s spaces: Central Park, Rowland Road Park, Frodingham Footbridge, and Church Square.
What emerged was, hopefully, a new connection with the habitable, public spaces of the town, and a deeper sense of ownership of them.
I will meet you here is a collaboration between @alexanderstubbss and @_wesfoster_ and others, exploring the potential of somewhat forgotten spaces in a city.
Thank you to @psithurisminthewolds for programming and trusting us, and to the staff at 20-21 for hosting the space post-workshop. Thank you, too, to the people who chose to spend their time with us on that sunny morning!
Swipe to the end to hear a climbing frame being played with an egg shaker and tuning peg!
📷 Wes Foster
Quick trip across to catch @emryalls Divine Archives before it finished, and have a wander around Barnsley for the @barnsleyfotocollective festival!
Great to see Sayuri Ichida (@the_final_view ) and Roman Manfredi (@butchfemmelove ) for the photoworks_uk at Barnsley Civic
We love it when artists come to visit ❤️
This past weekend, we were delighted when Alex and Wes, our current Gatepost artists, made the journey from Yorkshire to see their work in person and to sample the delights of Haltwhistle and the Roman Wall.
@alexanderstubbss@_wesfoster_
It was great to meet you both and thank you for your contribution to this little project.
Please see our last post to read about Alex & Wes’s work for the Gatepost, Meeting (Point), which is in turn part of their ongoing collaborative project, I Will Meet You Here.
If you are an artist, curator, or other creative professional, and interested in what we’re doing here, please get in contact to arrange a visit. We love showing people round our area and the conversations that emerge. We can offer discounted overnight accommodation on site if required and available.
Meeting (Point), digital drawing, 2025.
Currently on display at @field_shelter Notes on the gatepost.
+ sharing with you small portions of sound recordings from our last 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, which can also be found in our participatory archive.
A QR code sits in the corner of the drawing, inviting passersby to participate in a nomadic 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 gathering and engage with the living programme archive.
𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 is a continuing body of work between @alexanderstubbss + @_wesfoster_
Fresh work on the Gatepost!
We’re pleased to welcome Alex Stubbs and Wes Foster with their collaborative work Meeting (Point), an a4 digital drawing using multilayered text, images, tracings, and line drawings to share and make real a living and breathing archive. The archive has been built from the materials and creations collected during participatory gatherings. The gatherings are part of the self-directed alternative learning programme ‘I will meet you here’, led by Wes and Alex.
The QR code within the drawing leads to a Google Drive folder which acts as both an
invitation to participate in a nomadic ‘I will meet you here’ gathering and an opportunity to engage with the living programme archive.
Here, there are five folders: sight, sound, feel (each of which can be contributed to), library (a collection of texts that the artists worked with), and archive (made up from materials and notes from other workshops). Passers-by are encouraged to use the prompts, artefacts, digital objects, tools, and resources in each folder to activate their walk in new and unexpected ways.
Through the archive, all of the findings in ‘I will meet you here’ will be made open and visible to the public for the first time. Thinking about the gatepost as a liminal and time-restricted/restrictive place, this will act as another, remote, iteration of the ‘I will meet you here’ workshops for the duration of Meeting (Point), and will then be archived alongside the wider programme as part of Alex & Wes’s research into our relationships with space.
You can read more about the work and visit the archive via our website - just click the 🔗 in the usual place! There you can also find out more about Notes on the Gatepost.
Thank you to @alexanderstubbss and @_wesfoster_ for their contribution!
📸 We’re excited to announce something new!
Over the Bridge is a new network, connecting photographers across Grimsby, Hull, and Scunthorpe: building space to learn, collaborate and grow.
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New work in progress publication, Tipping, can be found at @boundartbookfair this weekend.
Go find @danieljefferies_ / @foulpublishing if you'd like a copy. Massive thanks to Daniel for making me actually make a book for a change!
📚 What does it mean to archive something? What do we choose to hold on to, and what slips away?
For the third gathering of I will meet you here, we’ll be reading together from Julietta Singh’s No Archive Will Restore You, before moving into a creative exploration of the space around us. Through a series of activities working with tools, objects and the space, we’ll think about how public space can itself be read as an archive: always shifting, never fixed, and attached through a personal value.
Join Alexander Stubbs and me for an afternoon of reading, walking, and thinking together.
Book your place via the link in bio (only a couple of spaces left).
From the gathering…
We met again two Sundays ago; in a different place, with some different people.
The roll of a die dictated our actions in public. It led us into the corners, the brambles, up the stairs and ramps, and beside the estuary.
Our interrogation of Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts' Edgelands drew us to taking photographs, close looking through binoculars, sketching, and dreaming. We made notes, collected our ideas in pairs, and then collectively returned to the text for a deeper understanding of how our public spaces are woven into the fabric of politics and history.
Again, we were joined by artist @lauren_emily_wilson , who brought homemade chocolate and cherry cookies. The gathering is more than just coming together. It’s where we share, offer, and decide on new ways to use our public spaces.
On Sunday, 21 September, we will be gathering again, this time considering the ARCHIVE. How are public spaces read through objects? The footsteps, conversations, moments of rest and action; how do we remember them? Through a close reading of Julietta Singh’s No Archive Will Restore You, our time spent together will uncover the relationship of archiving to public space, and the potentials which lie in collecting together.
You can book your place via the Eventbrite link in our bios, or message us to ask more about it.
I will meet you here is a collaboration between @alexanderstubbss and @_wesfoster_ and others, exploring the potential of somewhat forgotten spaces in a city.
🎉 How do we examine the space around us, travel through it, and interact with it?
Join me and Alexander Stubbs next week, for the second gathering of I will meet you here. During the session, we will explore our relationship with space, especially the overlooked, the in-between, and the half-forgotten, using creative methods.
Taking inspiration from Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, we’ll consider the borders of the city: the scrubland, the business park verge, the disused pathway, and how we experience them.
Artist Lauren Wilson will also introduce food responding to the workshop themes. Drawing on a practice exploring food, care and the natural world, this will consider our relationship with what we eat, our ingredients, and the spaces they can often exist in.
Book a place via the link in bio for i will meet you here on Sunday 27 July.
