ARTWORKS







Charles Danby, Untitled Rotation, acrylic and oil on canvas, ink and acrylic on photogrph, and pencil and highlighter on paper, 2016


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Charles Danby, installation view of Cut Mirror Cube Site Architectures (2008) on Exhibition Road, London. Commissioned by RIBA for the 2008 London Festival of Architecture.


Further Works >>

NEUSCHLOSS




NEUSCHLOSS, Cleaved Into (2022), a resource game pack produced for LU Arts, Loughborough for use with their public sculpture collection sited at Loughborough University and wider imaginings of public sculpture.

WORKS WITH ROB SMITH




Charles Danby & Rob Smith, Triangulation Flat Rock, 2013, c-print





POLYMORPHIC CARBON LIBRARY (2021)
The Polymorphic Library investigates the diverse and timely discourses of carbon in respect of carbon transition and climate change. Through interactive arhitecture, live aparatus, and a public events programme, it examines our evolving relations to carbon and asks what futures and societies we want to build with carbon.
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Exhibition: Polymorohic Carbon Library, The Common Room, Newcastle, 2021





LOWICK LIME (2017-19)
Lowick Lime examines transformations to site through lime. It focusses on the material, ecological and socially interwoven site of an industrial lime kiln under restoration on the Scottish borders. It explores how co-producing approaches through communities can foster deep and sustainable human relationships to site, enable new local and policy approaches to the heritage restoration of industrial infrastructure, and provide pathways through lime production to future micro-industrial economies.
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Exhibition: Lowick Lime, The Experimental Studio & Baltic 39, Newcastle, 2019
Event: Unearthing Lowick Lime, with the Lowick Heritage Group, Being Human Festival, The Experimental Studio & Baltic 39, Newcastle, 2019
Exhibition, Incidental Assesmbly, Clore Studio, South London Gallery, 2019 (Group)
Events: Actions For Lowick (Dryburn Limeworks & Marking the Dryburn), with the Lowick Heritage Group, Lowick, Northumberland, 2019




LIMELIGHT (2016-22)
Limelight explores how material lime exacts its agency in relation to transforming decommissioned industrial land sites in the UK. It asks how the material properties, speeds, and transformations of lime enact a forming and becoming of landscape and site, and how material-thinking approaches offer development to site-based arts practice in the UK.
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Exhibition: Limelight, Cardiff Contemporary, Llangatock lime kiln and Cardiff, 2016
Exhibition: Polyspace, Newbridge Projects, Newcastle, 2016 (Group)
Performance (Conference): Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation, Edinburgh University, 2017
Performance (Conference): Granular: The Material Properties of Noise, University of Greenwich, 2018
Book Chapter: Limelight: Other Actions of Observation and Navigation in the book Postcards from the Anthropocene unsettling the geopolotics of representation, dpr-barcelona, 2022




PARRALEL CIPHER (2015-16)
Parallel Cipher is an immersive two-screen video work tracks a jouney through a series of forests in total darkness. Intermitent camera flashes provide the only source of light, imprinting the forests as periodic still-image frames within the video. The forests emerge in sharp retinal images as singular and continuous, compounded with the live sound of continual, often heavy, navigation of each artist moving through the forests, with occasional calling out and voices.
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Exhibition: Parralel Cipher, Northern Charter, Newcastle, 2016





THE QUARRY (2012-14)
The Quarry navigation as a forming of land site. It focusses on the sites of multiple limestone quarries across the south east of England connected through a single geological forming. The research examines navigation, the being in and moving through of site, as an event structure of site. It explores new frameworks, through histories and readings of British Land Art, for progressing site-based arts practice. It investigates material lime as an agent of transforming industrial landscape, setting this against canonical narratives of the post-industrial.
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Exhibition: Oxted England, Two Queens, Leicester, 2012
Exhibition: The Quarry, IMT Gallery, London, 2013
Symposium: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Leeds, 2014







POLYMORPHIC CARBON LIBRARY (2021)
Charles Danby & Rob Smith, installation view of Carbon Pathways Table and Carbon Reader as part of Polymorphic Carbon Library, 2021. Commissioned for the Common Room, Newcastle (Former Mining Institute)






LOWICK LIME (2017-19)
Charles Danby & Rob Smith, event view of Unearthing Lowick Lime as part of the UK Humanities Being Human Festival, 2019. Event performance with Lowick Heritage Group within the exhibition Lowick Lime, 2019






LIMELIGHT (2016-22)
Charles Danby & Rob Smith, view of Limelight Illumination at Llangattock Kiln, Wales, 2016, part of the work Limelight (2016-22), Cardiff Contemporary, 2016.






PARRALEL CIPHER (2015-16)
Charles Danby & Rob Smith, installation view of Parallel Cipher at the Northern Charter, Newcastle, 2016






THE QUARRY (2012-14)
Charles Danby & Rob Smith, Lost Stone from the series Triangulated Photographs (2013-14), c-print, variable size, 2014