Emma Hornsby - TRACES

Residency at Spit and Sawdust, Cardiff

04.06.2018 - 21.06.2018

Whilst researching my grandfather’s time spent selling mining machinery in South Wales in the 1950s, I discovered a catalogue of technical drawings in the Swansea Miners library. This catalogue was the starting point for a residency at Spit & Sawdust.

Responding instinctively to the machine drawings, and through a process or repetition and re-assembly, the works became detached from their original source. During the residency I experimented with shape, scale, sound and mark making, engaging with the environment and atmosphere of Spit & Sawdust.

Technical blueprint of mining machinery with handwritten notes, titled 'TRACES' by Emma Hornsby.
A white wall with various faint geometric shapes and lines in light gray, illuminated by three hanging light bulbs in a room with wooden walls and ceiling.
Multiple chalked lines and marks on a concrete or asphalt surface, possibly on a basketball court or playground.
White chalk lines forming the letter 'V' on a gray concrete floor.
A row of blank pieces of paper hanging on a string against a gray brick wall, with brown chairs at the bottom of the image.
Three sheets of paper clipped to a wooden board, each with faint pencil sketches of trees.