Highbury College Portsmouth
Liz Walker Portfolio
Quayside
In this psychogeography focused project, I chose the Quayside Marina as my location of focus because the grit and vibrant urban contrasts of the marina encapsulated much of what I feel is the essence of Southampton (my hometown city and one which I have many family connections to). The Quayside Marina is a small, urban marina busy with industry (such as boat repair yards, a metal scrap recycling export port and a shellfish processing plant), human habitation (with a diversity of people residing on boats on the marina as well as living in buildings around it) and wildlife (which includes a large variety of different species of birds as well as fish, molluscs and crustaceans). During repeated visits to the marina, the sense of energy on the noisy tidal mudflats and the processes of urban decay left a lasting impression on my mind which I endeavoured to capture in my sculpture. To create this sculpture, I built up a shape out of air-dry clay inspired by a buoy (as well as the mud of the tidal environment itself), which I impressed with textures from a boat rope. I painted the sculpture using carefully poured layers of boat paint that had enamel-like qualities and which I scattered shavings of iron rust into. Within the sculpture are impressions of watery textures painted enamel black.
Liz Walker Portfolio
Quayside
In this psychogeography focused project, I chose the Quayside Marina as my location of focus because the grit and vibrant urban contrasts of the marina encapsulated much of what I feel is the essence of Southampton (my hometown city and one which I have many family connections to). The Quayside Marina is a small, urban marina busy with industry (such as boat repair yards, a metal scrap recycling export port and a shellfish processing plant), human habitation (with a diversity of people residing on boats on the marina as well as living in buildings around it) and wildlife (which includes a large variety of different species of birds as well as fish, molluscs and crustaceans). During repeated visits to the marina, the sense of energy on the noisy tidal mudflats and the processes of urban decay left a lasting impression on my mind which I endeavoured to capture in my sculpture. To create this sculpture, I built up a shape out of air-dry clay inspired by a buoy (as well as the mud of the tidal environment itself), which I impressed with textures from a boat rope. I painted the sculpture using carefully poured layers of boat paint that had enamel-like qualities and which I scattered shavings of iron rust into. Within the sculpture are impressions of watery textures painted enamel black.