- Venue
- Chapel Arts Studios
- Starts
- Friday, June 25, 2010
- Ends
- Sunday, July 4, 2010
- Address
- Chapel Arts Studios, St Mary's Chapel, New Street, ANDOVER, SP10 1DR
- Location
- South East England
All the rest…’ is the inaugural exhibition at Chapel Arts Studio, in the grounds of St Mary’s Church, Andover. This group show by resident artists Dave Dixon, Kate Harding, Russell Moreton and Yonat Nitzan-Green reveals the reincarnated chapel to the public for the first time since its official opening in November 2009. The artists use clay, books and dust, as well as oil paints, drawings and video in their work which relates to issues of memory and cultural identity. Harding’s powerful drawings and video installation reawaken the memory of the building in its old use as a Chapel of Rest, and Moreton’s use of clay conveys the fragile and vulnerable body as it leaves its trace in materials. A book can be described as a ‘vessel of memory and culture’ since its content is made up of facts and imagination. Dixon’s installation is a meditation on the dust which accumulates on forgotten, worn-out books. By contrast, Nitzan-Green’s painting is a response to a book that she read, by the Palestinian author Yahya Yakhlif, entitled A Lake Beyond The Wind. Here, facts and imagination are being used to re-examine the past and present of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
