Jackie Chettur
TEMPORARY PUBLIC ART
…it is 89 days this morning since we left the Mumbles Head …
Positioned looking to the Mumbles Head stereoscopic viewers depict the Caperhorners voyages from Swansea to Chile to import copper ore
Pilot Festival, Brightlingsea, Essex, 2013 - Photograph: Tony Millings
35mm Stereoscope housed in viewer, housed in blue painted sculpture positioned looking out to sea
Two Schooners and a Barque
Two Schooners and a Barque, Caernarfon Castle, 2018 The stereoscopic images depict the export of slate from North Wales
PARTICIPATION
A Fall into Grace
In 2015 I worked as artist /producer on A Fall into Grace 11, I devised the project in conjunction with Sarah Pace of Addo. The project was devised as a kind of art/participation/education project. Ambitious in its’ aims to introduce participants to a variety of new experiences including creative writing workshops, printmaking workshops and performance - but essentially it was a writing project, where acclaimed authors including Phil Carradice, Erica Bohr and Rachel Trezise ran series writing workshops for diverse groups of people to explore the theme of Romantic Love.
19 century map of Aberdare adapted for a day of performance and printed at large scale, devised around an 18 century French parlour game called Carte de Tendre, adapted by Jackie Chettur
An interactive day of romance and performance was devised in collaboration with John Norton. Audience members were provided with maps and dealt single cards to claim a story. On locating the venue and their storyteller, the cardholder was instructed to present the card to the storyteller and ask ‘are you the one?’ the storyteller then performed the story to the cardholder in one of many varied locations around Aberdare.
designer Jackie Chettur
Audience member is dealt her card by the days host, Madam Yvonne.
Storyteller performed ‘the Birthday Present’ in the kitchen of the community centre, she is photographed outside the centre.
Storyteller performing the story ‘Bouncing’ in a furniture shop
Anthology of 33 romantic love stories published in 2015, as well as newspaper for launch and cards designed for day of performance
Author, Phill Carradice leads a writing group at the start of the project
READING PROJECTS
you must have seen Ethan Frome
‘you must have seen Ethan Frome’ 260 page handprinted, leather bound and foil blocked book -2013
Edith Wharton’s novela, is a story told within a story. As the story unfolds we learn the circumstances of one man’s sorrowful existence. My distilled version intensifies the rhythm set down by the author, but now only permits the reader tiny glimpses of the ongoing drama, accompanied by continuous, repetitive, references to Ethan Frome.
‘you must have seen Ethan Frome’ 260 page handprinted, leather bound and foil blocked book -2013
‘you must have seen Ethan Frome’
260 page handprinted, with perpetual 24 point metal type
thus Tess walks on
My ongoing adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles reflects an overriding memory that much of the drama in Hardy’s novels occurs out of doors. My distilled version reduces the narrative to Tess’s forward movement through the landscape of the novel. Her journeying on tracks, crooked lanes, roads, paths, ascents and descents, now seem as one long and exhausting journey.
Photopolymer gravure prints, ongoing - started in 2015. The series comprises of 40 out of a possible 150 images.
can’t eat for that you can’t eat for that
Adapted from John Steinbecks the Grapes of Wrath
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECTS
120mm stereoscope viewed in a 3d slide viewer - one of eight images created to tell a simple love story in the Coliseum Theatre Aberdare 2011
From the series 'the liberation of colour. Separate groups of props inhabit a single set and perform a series of practical interpretations, or experiments about how colour works.
from the series '310' 2009 Giclee print 35"x45" originally created for a solo show at g39 Gallery, Cardiff