- Venue
- Millais Off-site Projects (Millais Gallery)
- Starts
- Thursday, October 29, 2009
- Ends
- Sunday, January 31, 2010
- Address
- Foyer, Sir James Matthews Building, Southampton Solent University, Above Bar Street, Southampton SO14 7NN
- Location
- South East England
Includes works by Laura Ball, Susan Collins, Peter Collis, Andrew Cross, Julian Germain, Rosie Maguire, Dominique Rey. As one of the most powerful animators of British identity, the English Channel has inspired poetry and song for centuries. This exhibition looks at some of the recent visual representations of this symbolic stretch of water. The different perspectives generated by living artists are not those of the wars that have been fought on the sea and in the air over the Channel: they are a cooler examination of the effect of the sea and its presence. ‘Channel’ also means a channel of water (like Southampton Water itself) and a channel often connects us to nature and to other communities, in the past and future.
