Heterotopias and Other Domestic Landscapes is artist Mariele Neudecker’s installation at the Regency Town House. The idea is to create a ‘geophysical slice’ of a recorded, yet fictionalized landscape through the air, earth and deep sea as visitors ascend and descend through the floors of the Regency Town House. The installation by Neudecker, uses the entire building as a ‘container’ for a […]
David Wightman creates acrylic abstract and landscape paintings using collaged wallpaper. For HOUSE, Wightman has created a large-scale, site-specific painting entitled Hero. Using a collaging technique similar to marquetry, Wightman uses wallpaper as a personal reference to his own childhood. Hero’s composition is based on found images of landscapes that have been edited and idealised. The result is a sublime and archetypical beautiful mountainscape that is familiar yet […]
This large outdoor structure takes the form of a stricken airship whose central section has collapsed, bringing the vessel to ground. The invention of the powered airship at the turn of the last century marked a fundamental shift in our relation to the landscape and its elements, promising exploration and access to new vistas on an unprecedented scale. As with all encounters with […]
Aria is a site-specific audio-visual piece featuring a freediver and a female soprano projected inside a shipping container on Brighton’s seafront. Immersed in the soundscape of an a capella voice, the viewer experiences a figure moving within the depths of the underwater landscape, pulsing with the lyrical rhythm of the singer’s breath. In this space the boundaries of interior and exterior become blurred and perceptions become distorted. […]
Emma Critchley has worked as an underwater image-maker for over ten years. In 2011 she graduated with an MA from The Royal College of Art. Through working with a combination of photography, video and installation she explores the human relationship with the underwater environment. Critchley has developed works funded by The Photographers Gallery, The National Media Museum, The Arts Council England, The British Council and the Singapore International […]
Dylan Shipton and Ben Fitton met on the MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2000 and continue to live and work in London, pursuing both individual and collaborative practices. Their collaborations combine an interest in surfaces and their supporting structures with an investigation of absence and negation. The work seeks to question what is at stake in maintaining or arresting processes of collapse […]
Born in Stockport, Greater Manchester in 1980, David Wightman graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003. His selected solo exhibitions include Paramour at Halcyon Gallery (2012), Homage to Loreleia at Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (2011), Secret Name at Sumarria Lunn/Art Work Space at the Hempel, London (2010), Behemoth and Other New Paintings at Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009), Aspirations – New Paintings at William Angel […]
Neudecker’s work manipulates perception, distortion, contrast, scale, reality and fiction in representations of vast spaces, limited by the human eye ‘frame’ of the view.
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