Identifying Time and Place
May 22nd to May 30th 2008
Identify: Put a name to, put into context, recognize, remember.
Time: The unlimited continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future, regarded as a whole.
Place: A portion of space occupied by or set aside for someone or something.
Cynthia Harrison’s practice is an ongoing investigation into the human condition. This new work broadens her concerns with a lack in language into a perception of constantly changing identity through time and place.
Using drawing and photography she expresses her findings in an accessible visual language.
Andrew Tebbs makes art that touches on issues of identity.
He makes this new body of work in response to the changing social landscape. The work is multi layered, inviting questions of politics, of change and loss, of memory matters and of a collective - unconscious.
He attempts to make visible his emotional responses; to show us the familiar from new viewpoints: this defamiliarisation generating new intensity.
Using combinations of film, photography and drawing Tebbs’ and Harrison’s work closes in to answer the unanswerable.
Surface Gallery’s latest show ‘Identifying Time and Place’ introduces new work by Andrew Tebbs and Cynthia Harrison.
Living and working in the region both artists use this context to explore their own and by proxy our own understanding of ourselves.
Opening event Wednesday 21st May, 6-8 pm
Exhibition open 22nd to 30th May, 2008