ON THE ENDLESS HERE

Anna Kirk-Smith

 

Anna is the curator of On the Endless Here. She is a fine artist, academic and a graduate of the Royal College of Art, with an active interdisciplinary research record across the arts and sciences. She currently lectures in Fine Art at Hull School of Art & Design, where she is the Curriculum Leader for creative entrepreneurship, and is also a committee member of the Hull Geological Society.

 

About this project Anna says:

“Geologists see things differently – they imagine glaciers advancing and retreating before their eyes, they can describe deep earth disturbances as if witnessing them. These Flamborough rocks and deposits are weighty with stories that the Quaternary Research Group members are interpreting, and yet these silt-topped chalky bays appear a static snapshot to the uninformed observer (or artist). This is an exploration for me into how to see like a geologist, discovering a new, yet ancient, visual language. This I will mingle with observations on their preferred tools, individual idiosyncrasies and their personal quests. I shall try to transport the millions of years hence to the now by re-presenting the evidence and the imagined narratives of ago-worlds uncovered by erosion, spades and trowels. I am investigating the now-solid faults, fossils and clasts, alongside the pigments, depositions and tills that fixed the flux of a liquid state as a record of their final settling. These Flamborough freeze-frames continue to be slowly eroded, wiped off the chalkboard of understanding as they pass through this anthropocenic epoch.”