Rebecca Birch and Charles Danby are currently in residence at HMK (Hotel MariaKapel) in the Nederlands. Taking opposing approaches of collection and manufacture they are working collaboratively to examine the transformation of language through the vernacular of landscape.

The first outcome of their work is Element One, presented at HMK (22 March-10 April). Constructed around a series of small architectures, or modular sections of walls, the work examines scale, flatness, whiteness and line, ideas that the artist's identified as central to their experience of being in the Northern Holland and Hoorn.

 

Element Two will be presented by the artists at HMK (11 April) alongside a roundtable conversation.

 

 

Rebecca Birch, 1978 (based in London, UK) (studied Goldsmiths 2001, Slade 2007) is an artist working in video, conversation and performance. Recent research and exhibitions include Great Northern, a journey to the Arctic Circle (2008), Invention (2), City Gallery Offsite, Leicester (2008), On Time, Courtauld Institute, London (2008), 36 Day Mountain, solo exhibition at GaleriAneks, Poznan (2007) a residency at the Banff Centre, Cananda (2007) and Bristlecone, at PSL and Margate Rocks (2007)

Charles Danby, 1976 (based in London, UK) (studied Slade 2002) is an artist and writer and lectures at Loughborough University, UK. Recent exhibitions include If You Build it They Will Come, G39, Cardiff (2008), Pyramids, Galeria Del Cortile, Rome (2008) and Despite My Best Intentions, Loft, Dublin (2006). He is a co-founder of PROJECKT, an international curatorial and publishing body. Forthcoming exhibitions include Secondary Pyramids, The Academy of Arts Gallery, Tirana, Albania (2009)