Ellen-Rose Wallace

My final year work – Vessel, Tempus, Shore will be on display @kfestarts this weekend in Gallery No. 1!

Opening hours for the weekend are

Friday 4pm – 7pmSaturday 11am – 6pmSunday 11am – 6pmMonday 11am – 1pm

So delighted to finally see this work installed!

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Vessel, Tempus, Shore is a video and sound installation that explores the idea of liminality in relation to both time and narrative. The viewer enters the installation in the midst of things, as the works loop at different lengths to create a condition of constant change, with no definitive beginning or ending. One screen shows a boat that has been left to gather rainwater, with the reflection of a day passing through it. Across from this, the shore of an island acts as a boundary that is circled but never crossed.

Different moments of time are brought together through a shifting soundscape, signifying change through sounds of bird song, ice along the shore and a boat rowing through the empty space. The movements of Storm Ys are predicted and recorded through Shipping Forecasts over the course of thirteen November days.

Placed at set intervals, these forecasts punctuate the work. Combining imagery of transition and stillness, the work is characterised by a slow but continuous motion. The use of the forecasts contrasted with this stillness implies a distance, as though the storm is elsewhere, for now.