AFTERIMAGE,
21 June – 2 August,
The Gallery, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens
Near Gulval, Penzance, TR20 8YL
21 June – 2 August
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 4pm
Opening: Friday 20 June, 6–8pm
Curated by Alastair and Fleur Mackie as part of a summer programme of artist-curated shows at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, AFTERIMAGE explores the nature of site-specific interventions through photography.
The exhibition brings together works that capture situational propositions – subtle actions that exist primarily through their photographic record. Each image reflects an artist’s engagement with circumstances – natural or constructed – through acts of gentle intervention: recontextualising found elements or making quiet gestures that reframe space and invite new ways of seeing. The photographs function both as artworks and as evidence.
Jack Whitefield · Amy and Oliver Thomas-Irvine · Oscar Santillan · David Rickard · Abigail Reynolds · Oliver Raymond-Barker · Tony Plant · Mike Perry · Katie Paterson · David Nash · Alastair and Fleur Mackie · Antti Laitinen · Jeremy Hutchison · Jasper Goodall · Matt Calderwood · Julie Brook
In Veiled Thorn, Mike Perry hangs agricultural sheeting, he found in a nearby field, over the branches of a Blackthorn tree. The resulting shapes create a forbodding atmosphere that echo the human forms in Rodin’s classic 1884 sculpture, The Bhurgers of Calais. Or maybe a scene from the witches in Macbeth. This post apocalyptic image suggest a dystopian future where plastic waste overruns nature. Perry points to recent scientific studies that indicate there is today over 20 times more plastic in our soils than in the oceans.
