Walter Cotten (1947-2008) began collaborating with Michael Sanders, who he met after showing Desert Work at the Photographers’ Gallery in London in 1991. As Sanders recalls:
“There was a certain logic to us all working together, we all had a shared interest and fascination with military technology and land use”
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, …
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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The Gatekeeper Within: a collaborative exhibition by contemporary Lincolnshire artists Lind Anso, Nicki Jarvis, Michael Sanders, Jason Wilsher-Mills and Malcolm Tait. The work Trinity Marker, which can be seen at the Embassy Gallery, was first shown in the exhibition TRINITY La Jornada Del Muerto in 2005 at The Horse Hospital in London. The exhibition was …
There was a certain logic to us all working together, we all had a shared interest and fascination with military technology and land use… The development of stealth technology which had taken place in the deserts of America was just becoming known after the Gulf War… There was an emerging aura of mystery and secrecy …
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