{"id":129,"date":"2011-03-19T09:49:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T09:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/?p=129"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:39:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:39:22","slug":"nature-of-landscape-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Nature of Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nature of Landscape \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Visions & Distillations of Landscape & Place
\nDavid Ainley, Jeremy Leigh, Stephen Newton, Judith Tucker, Richard Kenton Webb & The Abbey Walk Gallery Artists Group<\/p>\n

March 8th to March 19th 2011<\/p>\n

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This March Surface Gallery will play host to an exhibition that marks the culmination of an Arts Council funded project which includes the work of sixteen artists and a composer.<\/p>\n

The Nature of Landscape project was conceived of back in 2008 by artist\u00e2\u20ac\u201ccurator Linda Ingham, on seeing the work of Wirksworth-based artist, David Ainley on show at De-Da in Derby. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was looking for a project to provide for the N.E. Lincolnshire Arts Forum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, says Linda, from her studio at Abbey Walk Gallery in Grimsby. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 . . . and as soon as I saw David\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work, I realised how interesting it would be to create a project that challenges the idea of how we think about landscape.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ainley, who has a solo show running until the end of March at the New Court Gallery in Repton, makes subtle paintings and drawings that challenge the representation of landscape as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcscenery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and are at odds with the interpretative excesses of the heritage industry.<\/p>\n

The curatorial approach has been to draw together work based on landscape, which contrasts visually as well as in terms of concept. Richard Kenton Webb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work focuses very much on elements extracted and abstracted from the Cotswolds countryside, through which he has embarked on a systematic approach to explore colour; the work on show at Surface Gallery will be from the Red series.<\/p>\n

Judith Tucker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work concentrates on the mnemonic content and visually atmospheric subject of war-time German resorts, juxtaposed with contemporary timelines and their relationships in terms of historic resonance.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Leigh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work reflects very much the artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s abstracted feelings in relationship to Yorkshire and Scottish landscapes that speak to him in terms of the open road, and the road less travelled.<\/p>\n

Joined in this show by professor Stephen Newton, who wrote the introduction to the full colour catalogue that accompanies the work, the exhibition also includes the work of The Abbey Walk Gallery Artists group, and a film by Annabel Mc Court with a soundtrack by composer David Power.<\/p>\n

The Nature of Landscape as a project grew out of the initial exhibition in 2009 at Abbey Walk Gallery, and has since consisted of subsequent shows at the gallery and at East Coast School of Art & Design, as well as a seminar, a series of workshops, the printed publication, and finally the Nottingham show. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Both the Abbey Walk Gallery artists and the degree students from ECSAD have benefited from the opportunity to develop their work as part of the project. Working with Judith, David, Richard and Jerry has been a positive and inspiring experience for all of us, and we are looking forward to showing the results at Surface Gallery\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, says proprietor, Gillian Gibbon, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We hope that the public response to the very individual results of our broadened horizons will be just as positive.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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