Points of Reference & discussion with Richard Wentworth British Artist & Curator

After the Richard wentworth talk , I managed to get a quick conversation after regarding the question I asked as wanted to explain why I asked it.
I  said I found his process interesting as it seems he takes photographs and later relates them back society, upbringing, labels, identity- ( by the way a grill was positioned or text labelled on someone shirt or looking at strange stone engraving and considering its origins)  - I like that he see's art in the world- already there for us to reposition and reflect on , I wondered if he had a starting point ever, I wonder what does actually come first (thoughts that day creating his imagery around him for instance must happen also),
I wondered what was expected of him, if it were that he created work in situe, what was expected  when he took on an exhibition in Cuba .
His reply was honest (and gave reassurance with that) that he did panic about what was going to be shown for a few weeks.
I explained after that I am a visual worker collecting information about community centres and finding a bombardment and a lot of hurdles- I explained my project and that I was brought up inside a community centre in North Kensington, which has now been knocked down and how I'm coming up against hurdles and barriers,  straight away, brilliantly, he was really helpful and  I received a list of places to carry on my research.
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-wentworth-2132

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Worpole¹s connection to the eastern fringes is personal and spiritual, one in which the landscape bears physical testament to the ongoing cycle from creation to ruin to resurrection. Orton¹s photographs are almost luminous, despite the brooding skies, and make sacred spaces out of bulldozers slowly creating land out of the sea at London Gateway port, or an overgrown, deserted greenhouse. Architecture Today

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