- Venue
- The Mercer Art Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, April 16, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, September 4, 2011
- Address
- Swan Road, HG1 2SA
- Location
- Yorkshire
The mysterious world of moonlight that inspired the Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw to paint some of the most memorable pictures of his age, have, over a century on, led photographer Liza Dracup to produce a series of images that are both beautiful and intriguing. Liza Dracup exhibits a new body of work in response to the Victorian artist, known for work that captures the magical and often eerie atmosphere created by the effects of moonlight. Dracup has a similar preoccupation with the effect of light – using the camera as a creative tool to track the landscape at night, using available light from ambient sources, both natural and artificial. Dracup is intrigued by the idea that Grimshaw, as a painter, could use many different viewpoints of the scene, and that the viewer is prepared to accept that his is an authentic view. “I would say that what I am doing is taking the strongest elements of Grimshaw’s paintings and putting them together with my own vision”.
