EXCAVATIONS AND ESTUARIES: THE NATURE OF LANDSCAPE
24th April – 1st June 24 , 8 Abbey Walk, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN31 1NB www.abbeywalkgallery.com
Leading artists come together for two-year art project on the landscape of North East Lincolnshire
The coastal landscape of North East Lincolnshire is explored in a major new series of exhibitions and events to be shown over two years starting on 24th April 2013 with a show at the Abbey Walk Gallery in Grimsby. The ambitious project masterminded by artist-curator Linda Ingham shows work by some of the UK’s most experimental landscape artists and includes works on loan from The Arts Council Collection – the first time that this collection has been accessed in the region.
“Excavations & Estuaries is a project concerned with the physical stuff of landscape and our relationship to it. People don’t only reside within and upon our landscape; we mine, and excavate the land, using it to fulfill a whole range of material, economic, social and spiritual needs. The artists, academics and poets involved in this detailed two-year project explore these material, economic, social and spiritual needs. The artists, academics and poets involved in this detailed two-year project explore these themes, through the window of the territory of North East Lincolnshire and surrounding counties, to offer visitors a series of questions and illuminations.”
Linda Ingham
The project includes:
• The remarkable camera-less photography of Susan Derges who has recently shown in the Shadow Catchers exhibition the Victoria & Albert Museum.
• A joint visual and verbal arts exhibit by artist Judith Tucker and poet Harriet Tarlo who been have been commissioned to create a series of drawings, paintings and poetry which express their responses to a particular stretch of the coastline between Cleethorpes and Tetney.
• Cabinets of Curiosity by David Walker Barker that contain artefacts and objects literally excavated from the earth, accompanied by rich and detailed mixed- media paintings.
• Paintings and drawings by David Ainley that explore the relationship between people and landscape and take inspiration from the disused mines in Derbyshire.
• Richly impastoed canvases depicting the Thames Estuary by George Rowlett who began his career at Grimsby Arts College before going on to the Royal Academy.
• Drawn and mixed-media studies by artist-curator Linda Ingham that focus on self-portraiture in landscape and her concerns about the coastal landscape of her home in Cleethorpes
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