- Venue
- Surface Gallery
- Starts
- Tuesday, February 9, 2010
- Ends
- Saturday, February 13, 2010
- Address
- Surface Gallery 16 Southwell Road Nottingham NGL 1DL
- Location
- East Midlands
Private View 6-8pm Monday 8th Feb 2010 ‘Measure and Purpose’ is an exhibition by Kate Brigden and Pippa Gatty engaging with ideas of exploration, pseudo-scientific study and the drive to explore and to explain. Yi-Fu Tuan in Topophilia explains ‘the artificial environment they [humans] have built is an outcome of mental processes- similarly, myths, legends, taxonomies, and science. All these achievements may be seen as cocoons that humans have wove in order to feel more at home in nature.’ (Tuan, P.13) Both Gatty and Brigden’s work draws reference from scientific method. There is a need to map, measure, and to de-mystify, but it is where these techniques fail to fully quantify that creates a platform on which the work is made.
