- Venue
- Allenheads Contemporary Arts
- Starts
- Saturday, June 6, 2009
- Ends
- Sunday, June 21, 2009
- Address
- ACA Old School House Allenheads Hexham Northumberland NE47 9HR
- Location
- North East England
A group show featuring: Carole Luby, Sophie Michael, Claire Rowlands, Kate Stobbart, Steven Walker and Andrew Wilson. Expanding on their Allenheads experience six artists explore the concept of nostalgia through drawing, sculpture, performance, film and photography. Carole Luby delves into the bittersweet nature of nostalgia and expresses a process of longing and searching in reality and fantasy. Sophie Michael revisits familiar spaces and objects through film, creating colourful portholes, cutting into time. Claire Rowlands reflects on the preservation of artefacts and imagery both personal and communal. Kate Stobbart returns romantic imagery of the countryside back to the land from which it was inspired. Steven Walker investigates the abstract concept of time, layering moments, confusing the past, present and future. Andrew Wilson retreats into a meditative state to filter his recollections through drawing. This is not simply another nostalgia convention. There are no vintage cars, no vinyl records and no comic books. This exhibition looks deeper, beyond the stuff and things of nostalgia, and into the mechanics and the consequences of a concept that can destabilise ideas of time and reality.
