Gabrielle Hoad

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• Artworks
  • Delicate Instruments
  • Clouded Border
  • Ghost Moth
  • The whistle draws attention
    to the signal
  • Salt-cat (keeps them at home)
  • Turn (the) leaves
  • Fatal exchanges
  • pigeon steps
  • lie lie lie
  • Street Rockery
  • A house of leaves
  • Hide
  • The Luminous Envelope
  • Feed
  • Columbarium (all that remains)
  • The further away they are
  • The Geometry of Air
  • Interloper
  • Listen to Easterbrooks
  • The Great British Banana
  • Mutter Erde
  • Is and Was
  • Observatory
  • River Bovey Walk
  • Space as defined by two
    separate systems
  • The spaces where things
    have been
  • I draw them. They draw me.
  • What the world becomes
• Projects
  • Clouded Border
  • Read (to) the trees
  • The Buffer Zone
  • Preston Street Union
  • LEAN
  • Solid Air
  • Foreign Soil
  • HEIST
  • Stowage
  • Exeter Studios Project
• Moving Image
  • Two-handed timekeeper
  • Orbit
  • the predecessor to your prayer
  • Crosstalk
  • Bound
• Writing
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Clouded Border  |  2021-2022

Clouded Border was an extended collaboration with Megan Calver, developed with and for Durlston Country Park & National Nature Reserve in Dorset. This site-responsive project drew inspiration from Durlston's history as a lookout and signalling station. Named after a variety of night-flying moth found on site, the project also referenced an innovative radio-based navigation system developed in part and deployed at Durlston during World War II. Known as Oboe, it allowed RAF bombers to precisely locate targets in Nazi-occupied Europe - at night or in heavy cloud or smog.

Work began remotely during the 2021 lockdown with experimental works drawing on the Rangers' Daily Diary. Two periods of residency at Durlston itself (June 2021 and March 2022) enabled in-depth on-site research, while a micro-residency at Exeter Phoenix (August 2021) allowed for the development of ideas in a gallery context. A site-specific installation in the Belvedere of Durlston Castle followed in September 2022. The project has now evolved into a more detailed exploration of the work of Oboe's inventor Alec Harley Reeves called Delicate Instruments.