Hello, Over the course of the six months a lot of design and development has taken place on The Observatory project and with only a few weeks to go until the launch I thought I’d give you a sneak preview of the building and rope screen. The Observatory II – taken 17th December 2014 In the photo you can see two observatories, one of which will be for ...
Here is a short film from North Devon Moving Image CIC as part of a six month oral history project at St Anne’s Arts and Community Centre in Barnstaple. I talk about my residency at the chapel before its restoration. -Ed
Competition Winner Announced! After much deliberation and careful consideration by a highly experienced panel of judges, a design developed by of team of five young graduates in architecture and art was chosen. Four members of the team are all part of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in London, with the fifth member being Devon based artist Edward Crumpton. The ...
Date: Wednesday, 12th March 2014 Start time: 2pm End time: 4pm A FREE workshop run by Swimbridge based artist, Edward Crumpton is being held at White Moose gallery, which will look at the techniques of negative space drawing. This approach is used to prevent the logical mind from assigning a symbol to the object being drawn, focusing on observing what is ...
Following in the footsteps of sailors of yore Read more: http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Following-footsteps-sailors-yore/story-20088668-detail/story.html#ixzz2lssKuxiG
Here is the article of Edward’s latest show in the Journal Newspaper on the 10th October 2013 Some more details of the exhibition click here
Edward is pleased to announce that he is having a solo exhibition of his Mariners Way project. There is also an opportunity to hear the artist talk about his inspiration for this project, the ancient maritime route from Bideford to Dartmouth and his realisation of this extended journey into the current exhibition of sculpture, paintings, drawings and wood ...
After one month of the passage house at Heathercombe Gardens it was time to unravel the piece and transform it for it’s next exhibition at the White Moose. It did not take as long as we had thought and from starting at lunchtime we had finished putting all the rope in the spools by the late afternoon. It was the exhibition’s last day so we had ...
It has been quite a journey from the unraveling of the Mariners Way ball, the cleaning, the re-knotting and now the execution of the new form; the passage house. There were a number of factors against me as I now have less rope available and even less time to construct it in. I wanted to stay true to my original idea that included an entrance and exit of the ...
Last month I went back to the University of Exeter and unraveled the 1,300metres of knotted rope which is going to be changed into another sculpture along the Mariners Way walk; a passage house. This was new ground for me and I was intrigued to explore how the tarred rope had weathered. On first impression the rope had executed what I had intended. The colour of ...