Michael Mayhew
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 'One of the most original and searching artists currently working in the UK.’
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​ John McGrath – Artistic Director, Manchester International Festival
  • Begin Here >
    • City Arcadia - Contents
    • City Arcadia - Dossier #1 >
      • Welcome to the Future >
        • River - Kate Hawkins >
          • Dossier #2 - River >
            • David Rudlin - Looking & Seeing >
              • Coventry as it was once imagined >
                • Dossier #3 Looking & Seeing >
                  • The Coventry Peace Table >
                    • HUNGER >
                      • Future Propositions for a city
    • 11 11 11 ~ In Remembrance ~ Manchester >
      • Kris Canavan
      • Alistair MacLennan
      • Bean
      • Nicola Canavan
      • Martin O’Brien
      • Leo Devlin
      • Lisa Newman
      • Nina Whiteman
      • Mark Greenwood
      • Victoria Grey
      • Sally O'Dowd
    • 12 12 12 - Humanity Manchester
    • Allery Gallery 2012 >
      • Images from The Allery Gallery
    • The Body as Art >
      • Process & Practice >
        • Thinking Clay / Feeling Bodies
      • Participants >
        • Lydia Darling >
          • 'I cannot make this work without you'
        • Ria Hartley >
          • Reflection on . . .
        • Sarah Faulkner
      • The Body as art / DIY9 >
        • Mayhew & Huda
    • Curious Links
  • Journey Here >
    • Past is always present >
      • Residencies / Commissions >
        • Dreams Disturbs Reality
        • Devine Ecstasy of Destruction
        • Dogs of Heaven
        • My House is Your House Your House is Mine >
          • For Get Me (k) Not
        • Always Forgetting What is Beneath Me
        • 3:3:3 >
          • patterns of research / process/ practice >
            • 10 Year Development / there is no title
        • The Grand Tour / See Beyond >
          • See Beyond
        • Let China Make Me
        • The Gathering
        • rituals of being not being >
          • Gallery / Rituals of being not being.
        • Her Name Is Carol >
          • A Process in Searching . . . >
            • Questions from the deserts
        • Contemporary Arts Society Commission >
          • The Vent Collection
          • YX Collection
        • Surgery of Dreams
        • Cabinets of Curiosity
        • S.A.R.C Liminal Lands
      • The Doctors Notes
      • Away in a Manger
      • Hope Land - A Landscape Installation >
        • List of Works >
          • Gallery of Hope Land
      • Michael & Michael >
        • Black Chav / White Coon >
          • Performance Images >
            • Remain Moist /
    • Active Remains of Performance Art
    • Mechanical Air / Stage One >
      • Stage Two >
        • Stage Three >
          • Stage Four >
            • Space Life >
              • Life of Mechanical Air / A WebLog
    • Compositions & The Hyper~Graphic Score >
      • Hyper - Graphic Scores
    • Walking Films
    • Cavan / Inter / art
    • Writing >
      • Text / This Ain't No Abigail's Fucking Party
      • Text - Away in a manger
      • Talk - Change is as good as a rest
      • Text by Mark Greenwood / Blind Mans Blood /
      • Blood for Money: By Lisa Newman
      • Review / Black British Rebels:
      • J O Y
    • p r o l i f e r a t i o n
    • Somethings about Mayhew
  • End Here >
  • contact
R I V E R
                                                                                                       by Geographacal Artist Kate Hawkins:
                                                                                                                                        A City Arcadia Commission

                                      River was City Arcadia's first mini commission and went to the foundation of the city                                                 of Coventry. Most settlements are built around a river and Coventry is no different.

                                      Rivers are sources of survival and the River Sherbourne is no exception.

                                      This is the Sherbourne in 1255 by 2009 the river has practically been totally irradiated.
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The irradiation of free flowing river occurs through the industrialisation of our landscape. Water gets in the way and the Sherbourne was slowly buried beneath the modernisation of a city. Little remains of the river apart from the small dot of blue in the middle of the mad and the rectangle with a hole in it below.
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​             Coventry 2009

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The River commission exposed the shape of the River Sherbourne and dug a trench in the shop unit that was to become the City Arcadia base camp.

Kate filled the trench that was cut into the concrete and filled it with jam jars, filled with water with lights inside.

​For a moment the Sherbourne was recreated and reminded people what runs beneath their city.
                                                                                                                      See   >   Dossier #2
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