{"id":275,"date":"2008-08-31T22:03:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T21:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/gary\/?p=275"},"modified":"2020-08-13T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:04:46","slug":"harker-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/08\/31\/harker-herald\/","title":{"rendered":"Harker Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

August: Six Birds Of The Coquet Valley, Northumberland
31 July 2008 – 31 August 2008<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2008, I was commissioned to make a Billboard for the side of the
Waygood studios in Byker, Newcastle. For this piece, I drew on the local,
Northumbrian words for birds I had seen on walks in the Coquet Valley in
Northumberland. Of course, Newcastle was once a part of the old kingdom
of Northumbria, when the birds named here would, more than likely, have
been seen on or around the Ouseburn that runs through Byker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A study of bird names presents an \u2018unpredictable and haphazard richness\u2019
with names drawn from \u2018the very roots of our language\u2019 British Birds: Their
Folklore, Names and Literature by Francesca Greenoak. The name Coquet
comes from the Old English cocc, meaning \u2018wild bird\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W I T T O L<\/strong>: Wheatear
C H I T T Y<\/strong>: Meadow Pipit
Q U E E S T<\/strong>: Woodpigeon
C A L L O O<\/strong>: Curlew 
K E E L I E<\/strong>: Kestrel
W I Z Z L E<\/strong>: Dipper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To concide with the showing of the billboard, I presented a small and
related group of work in the gallery in Waygood called the\u00a0Hanging Wall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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