Walkies (2020) - Walkthrough - 14:32

''Working together over a two week period at Liverpool's 'The Royal Standard' Studio and Gallery, artists Ellie Towers and Reece Griffiths created their show 'Walkies' as part of their time on the Space Raiders residency. A work that exists in the duality of the corporeal and the virtual, the piece aims to combine analogue installational approaches with digital immersion, integration and documentation.

Following a canine narrators anecdotal journey through a cache of places, imaginings and memories; Walkies exists as a visual experience comprised of simulacral human constructions. A recital which intends to render it's reader an observer on the sill of social routine and it's deviation, we take a walk around a neighbourhood which has retained it's signage, and mappings of the past, but shed the linearity of a time centric or goal oriented perception, children and dogs nominated as focal characters through their fringed domestic positions and less limited interpretations.''

Walkies 2020 - Posters, promotional images, and In World Renders of the work

Walkies (2020) - Installation work

Comprising of 1,500 A4 sheets digitally printed and hand-pasted on walls and floor, four Collages digitally printed on leatherette and hung, 30 gloss photo prints of in-world renders, and a projector displaying video work.

Walkies in 'Space Raiders' - The Royal Standard - Liverpool

Pairing fictional and personal reference, 'Walkies' calls for reformation of interaction - generating semi-corporal forms that can evoke a physical solidarity with the virtual realm, provoking conversations around how an animal might perceive a loss of local physical event to digitality, or less loaded expectations of interpersonal and romantic relationships through online mass connectivity systems. Re-creating mutated versions of childhood, hometown, and current locational relics, the artists act as translators between virtual and corporeal images, hand cutting and pasting 1,500 A4 sheets into the main gallery Space of Liverpool's The Royal Standard Gallery, becoming themselves a direct imitation of a 3D software rendering camera, as together they build a complete environment square by square.

WDT 1:1 was an online exhibition developed during the Pandemic to give artists an accessible digital platform to display their work on. This Online gallery space was created using a series of interactive virtual 360 points within a digital room, created to be viewed on desktop or within virtual reality.

To work within this exhibition context Our work 'Walkies' was transformed into a table top miniature work, in the style of a train-set or maquette available for viewers to walk around - giving them the option to click a link and view the full walkies piece online.

Walkies in 'WDT 1:1' - Wet Dove Tail