Adam Forman

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Orgeave Installation 2014: Celebrating Keith Hayman (1944-2013) keith-hayman.co.uk Before Keith died in 2013 we talked of collaborating on a piece documenting the changes over history of Orgreave, just outside Sheffield. 2014 is the thirtieth anniversary of bitter battles at Orgreave between striking miners and the police. Once a colliery and British Steel Coking plant the site is now a landscaped country park with a new housing development and lake; no reference to its previous histories remains. In particular there is no sign of the battle of Orgreave. The miners lost, Margaret Thatcher won and we have no coal industry today. Investigating a little further we found there are many histories that have disappeared from Orgreave. This piece deals with the re landscaping of history-both intentionally and haphazardly with time. Keith made the signs which form a central part of the installation. He was a town planner by training before becoming an artist. My piece could be a town planner or architect’s office wall. How shall we re-landscape the Orgreave site? It is a flexible installation;could have additions or retractions.It is for continuous re landscaping.

Imminent Public Spaces      This work is the culmination of my Professional Doctorate in Fine Art: Imminent Public Spaces. The work in this final show is based on research carried out on a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust travel scholarship in 2003 to Russia, Egypt and Malaysia. The research centred on travel spaces in Moscow, Cairo and Kuala Lumpur. Still photography and digital video were used in the research. The resulting work involves paintings,drawings, still photos and video films (shown in the Lecture Theatre). They are all closely related in exploring travel spaces from within, without and in transit.     Adam Forman 2006  

PASSAGE:  2006                            Adam Forman   1. Midan Rames ; cairo 2. Belorusskaya metro:moscow 3. Masarra metro; cairo 4. KL Sentral; kuala lumpur 5. metro interior; moscow 6. Midan Ramses; cairo 7. KL Sentral; kuala lumpur 8. Park Kultury metro; moscow 9. Kaznaskiy Station; moscow 10. Nile riverbus; cairo 11. Kazanskiy station; moscow 12. Medan Pesar;kuala lumpur 13. Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro;moscow 14. Heliopolis tram; cairo 15. Arbatskaya metro; moscow 16. Belorusskiy station; moscow 17. Mubarak metro;cairo 18. Leningradskiy station; moscow 19. KLIA;kuala lumpur 20. Mayakovskaya metro. moscow 21. Opera metro; cairo 22. Pasar Seni metro;kuala lumpur 23. Komsomolskaya metro; moscow 24. Ramses station; cairo 25. Park Kultury metro; Moscow