- Venue
- The Crypt Gallery
- Starts
- Tuesday, May 15, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, September 2, 2012
- Address
- St George?s Bristol Great George Street Bristol BS1 5RR
- Location
- South West England
In an original series of 20 artworks, Sheona Beaumont (www.shospace.co.uk) has produced photographic interpretations of the Bristol landscape. Each digital collage is made up of more than one photograph taken at different times of day/year/view, revealing the dimensions of time and space in new and unseen ways. The work explores the landscape as a changing, animated scene, bringing life to familiar landmarks such as Cabot Tower, Queen Square and the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The book ‘Bristol Through the Lens: An Exhibition and an Essay’, recently published as a second edition with Tangent Books, includes all 20 prints and is also available at this exhibition, priced £10. In the accompanying essay, Sheona writes about the ways in which other photographers have explored techniques that produce this effect, including Bristol’s Andy Clifford and pinhole photographer Justin Quinnell. From the foreword, David Trigg writes, ‘Sheona Beaumont not only recognizes photography’s inherent tension between objective truth and subjective expression, but also its potential to transcend literal representation.’ Also accompanying the pieces in the exhibition are a selection of photographs from Sheona’s Bridge series.
