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Books: My interest in Artists Books was sparked by my wife, Maria White, her extensive collection of those books, and my attendance with her at various book fairs. It follows the strands of land art and walking pursued by many others - including in the Artists Book community. My Intervals book celebrates the role of maps, contour lines and their intervals in representing and giving access to land throughout the country. It centres on an area I know well, where the rivers Meavy and Plym join below the Dewerstone on the edge of Dartmoor. I am also working on a series of books documenting the sign boards which show the layouts of council estates in London: little recognised but almost ubiquitous representations of parts of the urban realm. David Howes: I am a geographer who spent his career in local government and parliamentary scrutiny in Devon, Kent and London. I retired in 2015 and I split my time between London and Plymouth. I spend as much of it as possible walking throughout England and Wales. I cover urban areas, rural areas and the edgelands between them - including the Thames Estuary, Essex Coast, east London and Dartmoor in particular. I am interested in maps and other schematic representations of built and natural landscapes. In exploring new areas I have always used Ordnance Survey maps to visualise unfamiliar landscapes and select locations and routes for exploring those areas. |
David Howes - DewerstoneDewerstone plays on contour intervals. Each leaf is cut along a 10 metre contour line in the area below the Dewerstone, where the Plym and Meavy rivers join on the edge of Dartmoor. In isolation each line is a random shape, but together with their intervals they show a landscape. Open edition. Ink jet printed with contour lines cut by hand in 240 gsm paper. Size 10.0 x 12.3 cm. Dewerstone is part of AMBruno's Intervals project. |
