Journey Through a Therapeutic Landscape

2022

During the summer of 2021 I walked across the country from John O'Groats to Land's End. Upon completing my journey, I struggled with how to visually express my experience of the walk. Inspired both by the playful and colorful materials employed by ‘outsider artists’ Gordon Anderson and the markmaking of Lachlan Carmichael, I decided to return to the tool of my youth. I allowed the felt tip to lead the depiction of some of the landscapes I had walked through, a process which allowed me to rediscover the simple joy of making whilst at the same helping me process the journey I had been on.

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Bristoler Chronik

2021

Introduction by
Bricks Bristol
       "In Episode 5 of the #BricksPodcast, memories fragment and distort as Cliff Andrade walks into his past. From University Halls in Stoke Bishop, to the leafy suburbs of Redland, and down to the Docks in the city centre. It’s a journey of a lifetime. His lifetime.

Andrade’s artistic practice explores ‘everything’, but in his podcast, Bristoler Chronik, he discusses the social tensions between the students at the University of Bristol, the impact of generational wealth in our current housing crisis, the unhealthy fetishisation of ‘Englishness’ and the fickle nature of our mind."

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Solvitur Ambulando

2020

Wanderlust
Rebecca Solnit

"The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it."

Berlin Chronicle
Walter Benjamin

"Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography … For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and with the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have at the moment of recollection."

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Unable to go for a real walk due to the lockdown, I went for a virtual wander.

A rumination on the unique mental space entered into when walking; a world of memory non sequiturs and layered thought.

120cm x 42cm

Permanent Marker on Fine Art Paper



















podcast

45 mins

On the Bricks website:
https://www.bricksbristol.org/2020/12/episode-5-cliff-andrade-bristoler-chronik/

On spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4zM7THndz6gFTThvBuNbvD?si=HB0AH_0lRReWsTYj-BhKhA

On Apple:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bricks/id1536779846?i=1000503681129









moving image with sound

16 minutes