ElblocDeltoniGuida - You already have had a few solo shows of this work and in the exhibitions you take a multi-media approach when working in a gallery space. How does this enhance the viewer-experience and what are your goals for developing it in …
The Themes and Ideas Pine Tree Ballads Explores are Derived from a Variety of Sources of Inspiration
ElblocDeltoniGuida - For me, this work is reminiscent of themes seen in literature and folkloric storytelling. I’m interested to hear if this was something you were initially inspired by and what other mediums or artists you were looking at when mak…
There is Aso a Lot of Technical Experimentation
ElblocDeltoniGuida - There is also a lot of technical experimentation and different styles of photography present in Pine Tree Ballads. Why is it important for you to mix more traditional styles of the medium alongside the more unique processes seen…
Pine Tree Ballads seems to be a Departure from your Past Projects
ElblocDeltoniGuida - Pine Tree Ballads seems to be a departure from your past projects. This series is dedicated to composing a visual narrative that is very much rooted in storytelling and magic-realism. How did you become engaged in working this w…
The Landscapes in this Series are Very Haunting
ElblocDeltoniGuida - The landscapes in this series are very haunting, and it seems that being in the woods at night became a recurring theme in this work. So much of being a kid and going into the woods after dark is about surrendering to your own f…
Lets look at Cervantes’ Shadow and Shack of Ryhope Wood
ElblocDeltoniGuida - You’ve also talked about how the stories you were told growing up ‘fuelled your imagination and had the power to transform floorboard creaks and shadows into enduring ancestral ghosts of the past.’ Could you tell us a bit about …
The Stories have Influenced this Series Immensely
ElblocDeltoniGuida - In our past conversations you spoke on how specific stories about your great-grandfather’s settlement to coastal Maine seemed larger than life…. almost as if the stories were centuries-old fables. I’m curious to know how your pe…
Using the Dense Backwoods of Costal Maine as a Backdrop, Ode to Irving
ElblocDeltoniGuida - Using the dense backwoods of costal Maine as a backdrop, Paul Thulin takes us on a journey that unfolds the secret layers of his own family history and personal identity. His series Pine Tree Ballads reads as a poetic vision, we…
Preston Bus Station, Jamie Hawkesworth, Adam Murray & Robert Parkinson, 2010
ElblocDeltoniGuida - At the time of talking, Adam’s writing about subculture in a piece for an Australian magazine. “Inevitably,” says Adam, “if people grow up in regional systems and then drift off to London when they’re eighteen or after uni or wh…
Road and Rail Links Between Sheffield and Manchester, Adam Murray & Theo Simpson with Ben McLaughlin, 2012
Elbloc Deltoni Guida - When Preston does manage to get some press, it’s for the wrong reasons. A recent report named Preston as ‘Britain’s Unhealthiest High Street’, a badge of little significance but one it could have done without. Greggs, M&Co, a …
Always better to be hard, Oscar Godfrey & Adam Murray, Caustic Coastal, 2015
ElblocDeltoniGuida - Adam is co-founder of Preston is my Paris, an arts platform that has featured the work of Jamie Hawkesworth, Theo Simpson and Ben McLaughlin. It’s also an ongoing project in its own right, and at its heart is an affection for ve…
The North West, Adam Murray & Robert Parkinson, 2015
ElblocDeltoniGuida - Nowhere in England captures the imagination like the North. The East, the South, the West and the Midlands – they’re lucky if they get talked about at all. But the myth of the North prevails because it’s convenient. It speaks of…