Exhibition: Stroud House Gallery 19 November – 23 December 2005

Title - Environmental
19 November — 23 December 2005

Behind the glitz and trumpeting of Christmas, our surrounding environment is the constant, quiet hero. Or is it? It is ever changing and under threat. Fifteen artists have been chosen whose work represents aspects of our environmental culture; its beauty, its degeneration and its future.

soil, shown in the basement projection area, is a text and time based composition by Grant Smith. It is a measured progression of images of the familiar domestic outdoors — layered with complex language and signifying the slow changes affected by physical intervention.

Linda Meakin has recently been awarded the Student Jerwood Drawing Prize. Her work explores aspects of industrial development that has wiped out areas of the tropical rain forest in West Africa. The chaotic layering within her drawing creates ambiguous linear networks.

Giles Corby’s work is a sculptural depiction of a devastated cityscape. The suggested isolation results from an almost filmic narrative that implies a dramatic occurrence and of time moving on.

fold me and sail away with me is an installation by Claudia Borgna that highlights the overflow of waste encountered in her extensive travelling. Rubbish and man made objects are transforming and creating new landscapes. Her use of flimsy disposable material elevates the banal into colourful poetic line and form.

Silvy Weatherall’s paintings concentrate on the patterns made in the agricultural landscape, documenting marks left by intensive farming. George Melly describes Silvy’s recent work as “where realism meets op art”.

Other artists include: Stephen Healy; Yoko Fukada; Fiona Robinson; Clara Clark; Joel Papps; Gemma Gore; Nicky Neate; Roger Hopgood; Rosalind Shaye and Sarah Brasier.

The exhibition continues until 23 December at the Stroud House Gallery, Station Road, Stroud, Glos GL5 3AP The gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday from10.30am — 5.00pm or by appointment. Admission free. For more information telephone 01453 750575 or email info@stroudhousegallery.co.uk

STATION ROAD . STROUD . GLOS . GL5 3AP
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