Checkpoint
Andrea Gregson 2020
During her stay at Grizedale, Gregson also brought an exhibition to the visitor centre. Called 'Seeing Through the Ground', it was an interesting rumination on the way in which natural materials are transformed and twisted by the industrial actions of mankind - a theme which runs throughout this scuplture, as evidenced by the drawings on the inside.
Andrea Gregson studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw and is now based in London. In March 2020, just before the COVID-19 outbreak sent the world into chaos, she brought a small patch of calm to Grizedale with 'Checkpoint', a modest hide with an open roof and charming pictures burned into the wood on the inside, from this hammer, to a wide range of tools and oddities, such as tongs, pine cones and an owl's claw. It can be found just across the river from Kennels Road car park, among the trees.
On her website, Andrea Gregson describes her research as:
"...an ongoing inquiry into obsolescence, materiality, value and site using making as a ‘knowledge generating process’ and an approach to ‘thinking and invention."
