August 2017
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Us, A Gunby Estate Domesday 2017
Cats: All Works | Exhibitions
COBRA 1.7
January 2015
On the 8th January 2015, the COBRA Committee convened over the attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris. Following this meeting, COBRA RES invited a selection of artists to respond to the Committee, and/or the event and its context. Sanders’ response was the work Reflections on Self-Expression in Difficult Times seen …
COLDWARmHOTLINE
Tags: Cold War
June 2012
‘The most awesome, powerful responsibility in the world lies in the hand that picks up this phone’ To celebrate 25th anniversary of ChildLine BT commissioned a team of artists to transform replica phone boxes into pieces of art, BT ArtBoxes, which were displayed all over London throughout June and July 2012 when they were auctioned …
This machine can kill children
Cats: All Works | Performance
Tags: RAF
July 2011
I made this gentle intervention at the RAF Waddington Air show in July 2011. Waddington is the home of 39 Squadron, whose pilots operate joint British and American drone flights in Afghanistan from Nevada. The remotely piloted aircraft (RPA’s or Reapers) are used for reconnaissance and can be equipped with missiles and laser-guided bombs for …
Dial Target Practice
Cats: All Works
Tags: RAF
April 2010
RAF Holbeach is a bombing range on the Lincolnshire Wash that is used by British, American and European squadrons for training purposes. Protected in part by the military presence, the range has a curious atmosphere. Here, a team of civilian employees man the targets and look after the natural landscape. The targets themselves are a …
Flag The Receiving End
Cats: All Works | Performance
October 2009
On 2 October 2009 Michael Sanders performed ‘The Receiving End’ as part of the SEAS International Arts Festival in Skegness. An invited audience standing outside the fence at RAF Wainfleet Air Weapons Range watched ‘the nuclear tourist’ through viewing devices and telescopes as he carried out an on site inspection and set up his mobile …
Ship Black/North Sea International Festival
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September 2009
An exhibition at the LOOK OUT, Gibraltar Point Visitor Centre Part of SEAS, the Black/North Sea International Festival. 14 September – 12 October 2009. Open 10am – 4pm. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve Gibraltar Road Skegness Lincolnshire PE24 4SU. Special thanks to all at RAF Wainfleet, Nicola Streeten, Ramco UK …
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Ruin Investigations into Future Archaeology
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Tags: RAF | Walter Cotten
March 2008
An exhibition related to future archaeology by artists MICHAEL SANDERS [England] and WALTER COTTEN [Los Angeles, 1947–2008]. KRUGLAK GALLERY MiraCosta College, Oceanside Campus, 1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside, CA, USA. 4 March – 3 April 2008. The nuclear age and its lasting effects on the landscape fascinate me. I try to picture the world as a …
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10 October 1957 Pile no1 on Fire
Cats: All Works
April 2007
(Sorry. I have taken liberties with this image but I thought I would show it to you and see what you think. oli) The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in Great Britain’s history, ranked in severity at level 5 out of a possible 7 on the International Nuclear Event …
TRINITY: la Jornada del Muerto
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Tags: Cold War | Walter Cotten
July 2005
An exhibition by Walter Cotten and Michael Sanders. The Horse Hospital: Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX The Atomic Age dawned at 5:29:45am on July 16, 1945, at Trinity Site in New Mexico, U.S.A. The first atomic explosion came less than 50 years after the discovery of radioactivity in 1896 and brought many threads of physics, …
Sitting Comfortably 1987
Tags: RAF
April 1987
The fearsome Sitting Comfortably, a 1987 chair by Michael Sanders, is formed from razor wire, and is said to be a comment on the Greenham Common anti-nuclear protests. It was featured in the Subversive Design show at The Brighton Museum & Art Gallery 2013
