- Venue
- The Gallery of Wonder
- Starts
- Monday, September 6, 2010
- Ends
- Friday, October 1, 2010
- Address
- The Foyer Entrance to the Fine Art Building, The Quadrangle Newcastle University NE1 7RU
- Location
- North East England
Corinne Lewis’ exhibition, The Nature of Desire explores the seemingly limitless human desire to consume unessential ‘luxury’ items and the social and ecological consequences of maintaining such an avaricious attitude. Through her residency in the school of Biology at Newcastle University Lewis has been engaging with new technologies in scientific research. Using Microscopy she has photographed live algal specimens, some of which are currently being explored as a possible biofuel, and placing these images onto everyday luxury items such as fabrics, ceramics and jewellery. Lewis aims to look at the relationship between nature and technological advancement and to question the role of consumerism and the object d’art. She creates objects that juxtapose the natural and the man-made and, through the use of technology, documents nature to investigate how one commodifies the other. By exhibiting these works at The Gallery of Wonder the objects become curios and things of wonder and interest.
