Steve Meyfroidt

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  • Hadrian’s Wall 1900 Exhibition

    Hadrian’s Wall 1900 Exhibition

    2022 marked 1900 years since the building of Hadrian’s Wall, celebrated in activities and events along the length of its site (see the official HW1900 website). One of the events was a print exhibition in which printmakers were invited to make a work exactly 300mm high to be tiled into a long line for show Read more

  • Fruitful Exhibition, and beyond

    Fruitful Exhibition, and beyond

    When Florence Arts put out an open call for work made in response to the prompt “Fruitful,” I recalled a quote I’d heard that described quantum mechanics as the most fruitful science we’ve had in the last hundred or so years. I forget where I heard it, but it came into my head anyway. My Read more

  • Fragile Power

    Fragile Power

    A recent series of collaborations culminated in four works shown at a group exhibition at the Florence Arts Centre running from 6th November to 19th December. Exhibition RE:FORM. An exhibition by Art Crit North Cumbria. Florence Arts Centre: 6th November – 18th December 2021. RE:FORM is a collaborative project which asked artists to make a Read more

  • A tiny sketch: “Translation”

    A tiny sketch: “Translation”

    This short post describes some idea fragments that feel as if they might be developed from a simple sketch here into something more interesting, related to notions of “translation” in different forms. The work started from a group workshop at university (#weareoca) that asked us to work with “translation” in a couple of ways: firstly Read more

  • Music

    Music

    In a quest to find the right place for technology in my artistic practice, I’m realising that the point may simply be that I can “do more” using computer-aided tools than is possible by hand. For a recent project I found a place for some simple software in analysing the spectrum of a piece of Read more

  • The Imperfect Robot

    The Imperfect Robot

    I’ve been researching Harold Cohen’s work recently. He was an acclaimed “traditional” painter until discovering computers when he changed track to pursue work made with a floor-roaming, pen-wielding wheeled robot controlled by his AARON software, which seems like his investigation into the mechanics of painting. He made work in this way from the 1960s to Read more