Artist:
David Faithfull
Title:Tornado:Flight Crash Investigation
Medium:Lithograph
Image size (cm) h x w: 26 x 37cm
Edition size: 20
Tornado:Flight
crash Investigation
Print investigating the wreckage and associated material from the site
of a RAF Tornado F3 crash near Torness Nuclear Power Station, 25 miles
SE of Edinburgh.
Almost as crash investigator, I study these curiously sculpted chunks
of high tech flotsam and jetsam, their insect like sheens and cell like
honey-combed forms. The fragments of this once deadly craft, its potential
to jettison its lethal weaponry in battle conflict, in this instance
jettisoned its human cargo, ejecting to safety, his last minute efforts
steering the plane out to sea over Torness, averting a disaster of catastrophic
consequences.
This collaborative print is the third element in the ‘Tornado’ series preceded by a pair of Artists books/multiples. ‘jettison’ investigated the location and details of the crash and the wreckage, ‘jetsam’ records the final flight path of plane and pilot. The final element ‘Fission’ is the production and creation of a book investigating the safety of Nuclear Power Stations generally and their location near or indeed beneath domestic and military flight paths and routes.
The ‘airfix kit’ form chosen, integrating the digitally photographed individual shards and fragments in Photoshop into the scaled kit frame, invites the viewer as participant in the crash investigation, to assemble the numbered pieces, following the numberless instructions to their own particular constructions and conclusions. continuing recent themes of Palindromic landscapes and Artists Book projects based on coastlines, tides and the associated boundaries between land and sea.
C.V.
2002
The Great Book of Gaelic/An Leabhar Mor/Print Collaboration,
Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, Dundee
1997-2001 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Research Awards
1993-present Part-time Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art,
Dundee, Scotland
1992-present Living and working as artist in Edinburgh, Scotland
1983-1992 Living and working as artist/designer in Copenhagen, Denmark
1979-1983 BA Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland
Solo
Exhibitions including:
1999 National Museum of Scotland Hawthornsale Court
Edinburgh Exhibition of Banners and imagery for the Opening
of the New Scottish Parliament
1997 Galleria Arts Nouveaux Verona,
Curated by Ottavio Giacomazzi, Malcesine, Italy
1997 Parco della Mignola Gallery Malcesine, Laco di Garda, Italy
Curated by Thorsten Stumpf, Wiesbaden, Germany
1991 The Royal Libraries Copenhagen, Denmark
Group
Exhibitions Including:
2002-2003 THE GREAT BOOK OF GAELIC, Glasgow Museum of Modern Art
AN LEABHAR MOR, The Gaelic Arts Agency/Canongate Books
ISBN 1841952494
International Tour 2003-2004: Ireland, Canada, USA
2002-2003 AESTHETIC & FUNCTION, Kansas State University touring
exhibition venues including: The Womens University, Seoul, Korea
achhochschule Trier, Trier, Germany
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
2002 ART OF THE BOOK, Fruitmarket Gallery/Edinburgh International
Book Festival
2002 NEW (recent acquisitions of contemporary British Art)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, ISBN 1903278341