Four artists use diverse media to explore the traces, impacts and qualities and relationships of water.
Nicola Hooper investigates Zoonoses (infections/diseases transferred from animal hosts to humans). She explores the animal body as a ‘host’ and the role ‘water’ and these animals play in the origin and spread of potential pandemic diseases. The mechanism of lithography is used to explore the way humans treat animals in the context of fear of disease.
Svetlana Trefilova explores the dualities of the visible and invisible; the physical and biological, and the inside and outside of organisms. She investigates the rhizonomic patterns of rocks, roots, trees and plants. Her ‘watery’ paintings play with abstract qualities that reveal and conceal; that play with the material and spiritual as well as interior and exterior structures.
Anastasia Tyurina makes visual art using Scanning Electron Microscope technology —challenging the boundaries of the observation and representation of the micro world since it was introduced to scientific research in the mid-1960s. She investigates the interpretation of micro-scale drops of water from different aquatic systems after evaporation. She attempts to discover the developed morphological features of the patterns related to water contamination and turns scientific photography into a creative art form.
Helen Wyatt plays with the interface between urban life and nature. Mangroves cross this boundary – capturing the detritus of floor and refuse and so much more. The personal/public nature of jewellery provides an intimate opportunity to engage the wearer and viewer. Layered materials, gems, textures and text foreground the qualities of these beautiful, important forms.
Artists: Anastasia Tyurina, Nicola Hooper, Svetlana Trefilova, Helen Wyatt
Opening Event: Friday, 18 March 2016, 6 – 8 pm
Venue: WEBB Gallery, QCA, 226 Grey Street, South Bank
Gallery Hours: 10 am – 4 pm, Tuesday to Saturday
