An exhibition of works on paper, printmaking and drawing, as well as film. They explore human interventions on the landscape and the impact of catastrophic events that have happened, and will happen.
Three artists: Carolyn Black, Melanie Clarke and Nichola Goff create process-led works that are grounded in place and draw on time. The works imagine human relationships with the environment and habitat in the context of climate change. Investigations into time and place are underpinned by a practice that expands the boundaries of printmaking and drawing.
Melanie Clarke investigates the relationship we have as humans with nature; the sometimes harmonious, often antagonistic and exploitative that needs to be rebalanced. Combining the ethereal fleeting with the material solidity of the subject matter she attempts to give a voice to the unseen with an experimental approach to printmaking.
Carolyn Black employs a wide range of media to make works that relate to future flooding of the River Severn. She employs frottage, printmaking and video to envisage imminent changes to this vulnerable landscape. This prospective flooded landscape doesn’t currently exist, but will in around 20 years time. When the hills become islands, what might the Severn landscape look like?
Nichola Goff explores human relationships with place and the natural world in the context of climate change and capitalism. ‘36 days in lockdown’ is a large-scale installation of 36 mapped daily walks from the first Covid lockdown in 2020. Woodblock prints of pathways, printed with local earth pigments, span out over a wall in a grid formation and condense down, layering over each other in a suspended state.
The works on paper are accompanied by sound and film playing memories of that time, reflecting on a time when the world stood still and there was time to take notice.
