Anna Robbins and Bethan Maddocks have achieved the seemingly impossible task of tracking the effects of time passing in their current exhibition at Sierra Metro, Granton, entitled Of the Remainder. Water drips onto unfired clay, ice melts onto raw steel or through dissolvable fabric, unpredictability has a changing beauty and constant intrigue. In Maddocks’ work Untitled, what initially appeared as structural units – the strings and fishing weights, fall slack as the clay is eroded, the roles of the structural and the aesthetic elements (or what appeared so initially) are reversed. The leaflet description for these works appeared particularly apt, “oscillating between transient experience and fleeting memory.” The subject matter also held a certain pertinent to me as I am constantly trying to battle with this notion of a time speeded up by the age of technology. This was a different time, the pace of nature not technology, destroying itself and feeding itself, growing into something new.
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