A collaborative exhibition by Alison SummersBell and BU Archaeology Field School
When: 20 March - 21 April 2023
Where: Atrium Gallery, Poole House, Talbot Campus
This research and resulting series of works has developed from a collaboration with BU’s Department of Archaeology & Anthropology Field School on the Durotriges dig in Dorset. Often using materials excavated from the site, Alison has set about recording and interpreting the experience of this Iron Age dig using methodologies embedded in painting and mark making.
Alison approaches this collaboration as fieldwork, using the language of science and art in an interchangeable way in the search for a dialect that crosses over the disciplines. Her work appropriates archaeological methodologies and academic language from site digs to inform her practice. Like many archaeological ideas, Alison’s work does not make suppositions or search for a quick aesthetic outcome, rather it tries to go through the same rigorous exposing of layers of meaning through excavation.
Find out more about The Durotriges Project and visit the Art@BU webpages.