William Keddell Residency

William Keddell is a visual artist who explores stereographic vision and dimensional perception. All of Keddell’s work has a stereographic element and every artwork includes a purpose-built binocular lens viewer or viewers.

William recently completed a residency at Wendover, Utah’s WWII bomber base, also the home of the ‘Enola Gay’ the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Long fascinated with aerial photography, William purchased and began to fly a “Powered Parachute”. Wendover was the perfect place for him to learn to fly. From his first flights he began to document (stereo-graphically) some of the unique aspects of this desert locale such as Salt Evaporation Ponds, Bomb Craters, Ammunition Storage Silos and other features.

William will be using his seven week residency at The Vernacular Lounge to continue developing his stereographic work and to exhibit and share his work with visitors to the space. He will also present his ideas and discoveries over a series of artists’ talks.

“I use stereography to explore and to bring attention to a full corporeality of dimensional space. You will often see in my work the evidence of deliberate interventions, which are calculated to delineate and/or to subvert a location’s spatial characteristics. In some work it is bright pinpoints of light serve to carry our consciousness to the volumetric integrity of a location. In other projects the interventions are - the structured placement of numbered stakes, or of floating symbols, or of colour clashes or other devices which seek to achieve the same end, which is to bring attention to a seemingly palpable corporeal place”.

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