Hannah Downing
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Hannah Downing
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SITE, LIGHT AND SURVEY

Artworks made in response to Thomas Hornor's 1815 land survey of Middleton Hall, made during a placement at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Drawing on the themes of recording, measuring and transcribing, most of the work exhibited was made using an A4 scanner which was taken out of its usual home or office setting and used to produce 'copies' of the natural environment.

On Exactitude in Science (2015)
Collage of inkjet prints made from digital images taken with a CanoScan-Lide20 scanner.
150 x 800 cm

This artwork takes its title from a Jorge Luis Borges short story in which the author imagines a map drawn to the same proportions as the landscape that it represents. A document scanner was used to scan a section of grass. Scanned, printed and stuck together, the many individual images form a 1:1 copy of a lawn.

This artwork formed part of the exhibition Site, Light and Survey >>

Scanned Stations (2015)
Series of C-Type prints made from digital images taken with a CanoScan-Lide20 scanner.
Each: 30 x 21 cm

A document scanner was taken out of its usual home or office setting and used to produce 'copies' of the natural environment.

These artworks formed part of the exhibition Site, Light and Survey >>