Visual Mapping Workshop

Participants are invited to take inspiration from their surroundings and create works inspired by built environments. How do we make our own mark on the buildings we inhabit? What histories do these spaces contain? How can we make art works that engage with our surroundings? Participants will use these questions and materials from the GOLDTAPPED exhibition to create visual maps and their own reactions to Carliol House.

IF YOU CAN STAND THE GLARE is a site-specific installation by locally based artists Aloe Corry, Juliet Fleming and Joanna Georghadjis. Corry, Fleming and Georghadjis’ floor-based collaboration responds to Carliol House’s first floor foyer and the unique space in which GOLDTAPPED is situated.

Carliol House was constructed from 1924-8 by Tait, Burnet and Lorne as the purpose-built headquarters of North Eastern Electric Supply Company which later became Northern Electric. Having stood derelict for over 10 years, Carliol House acts as a current home to the Newcastle-based chapter of The NewBridge Project for the past two years. The NewBridge Project inhabits this space on a mean while basis and Carliol house is not its final home. The floor of the foyer GOLDTAPPED gallery gives evidence to the evolution of this building. The original flooring was terrazzo, poured in place or precast. This was also used for floor treatments through out the space. Terrazzo is a composite material consisting of chips of marble , quartz, granite, and glass. In GOLDTAPPED space, squares of terrazzo have been lined with golden metal edging. Over the years, this flooring has been covered with concrete render and carpet tiles.

The artists have used this evolving foyer as inspiration to create this floor installation using PVC oil cloth and house paint. Incorporating their varied practices, and drawing upon their commonalities, Corry, Fleming and Georghadjis worked together to great a multi-layered composition. The work highlights the crevasses and physical history embedded in the floor, as well as the personal symbols and histories of each artist.