Return to Ritherdon Documentation

Disclosure: This file was written by Craig Oates and all information I have cited about the other parties where taken from their respective websites. I have, also, applied minor editing in places to help readability - in the context of this file. Please use the links listed below for the original/official version of the sourced material. Craig is the author of the software in this repository.

Return to Ritherdon Overview

'Return to Ritherdon' is a two year residency at Ritherdon & Co Ltd, a manufacturer of metal enclosures based in Darwen, Lancashire U.K. It was devised by artist Nicola Ellis and funded by Arts Council England.

• Nicola Ellis
• Ritherdon
• Arts Council England

About the Artist: Nicola Ellis

Nicola is interested in the properties, value, function and circulation of materials. She has a current focus on metals and the companies that work with them, her work draws on the visual and spoken language of industry operations, fabrication and profiling processes. The parameters for her sculpture, installation, drawings and videos include relationships between people, businesses and technology.

About the Manufacturer: Ritherdon

Established in 1895, Ritherdon have been manufacturing a variety of electrical enclosures and related products for many decades. A combination of a passion for innovation with close working relationships with their customers means that they are continually developing and expanding their product ranges.

About: Arts Council England

They were set up in 1946, by Royal Charter, to champion and develop art and culture across the country. They are governed by an Executive Board and National and Area Councils.

• Arts Council England's Royal Charter

Overview of Return to Ritherdon Docs (rtr-docs)

This repository houses the documentation for the, at the time of writing, unnamed project which is one project within the much bigger Return to Ritherdon project . The contents of the unnamed project consists of four smaller projects which are:

• Light Meter
• Relay
• Midpoint
• Eyes and Ears (this is a non-essential project and excluded from the diagrams below to keep things simple -- at this introductory stage)

As you can see, 'Artwork 1' is what this repository is for, which is just one artwork/project within the much bigger 'Return to Ritherdon' project. Within 'Artwork 1' is three smaller projects (listed and linked above). Below is a quick summary of how the three projects operate. (Please refer to the doc. files within this repo. for more in-depth breakdowns of how this all works.)

Goals of This Repository

The intention with this repository is to create a place which tracks all the documentation changes across the unnamed project in one place. This should help people whom are not exposed to the project in any sustained way have a single place they can go to for information about the projects within unnamed. With that said, the documentation hosted here is for technicians and 'back of house' staff. The content within this repository does not prioritise general public use.

You can read the documentation in this repository in two ways:

1. read the raw markdown (.md) files within the project folders in this repository, or;
2. download a 'Released' version and read that (as a .pdf).