A Basic Unit of Reality
Venue: Newark Works, 2 Foundry Ln, Bath BA2 3DZ
Open 11am to 6pm 27 May to 10 June / 11am to 3pm on Sun 11 June
Fully accessible, see map for full details.
‘A Basic Unit of Reality’, curated by Dr Eloise Govier, brings together a group of artists who individually explore, interrogate, and challenge how reality is seen, felt, touched and understood.
Cameron Lings offers data-driven sculptures, including a piece that captures 100-rolls of a six-sided dice.
Lily Horner paints shadows falling on the canvas, capturing the gentle and immediate tones of muted light.
Tony Bowen’s photographs of Bartholomew Square capture the residues of a glut of ceremonies back in 2021; ‘stormettes’ of confetti and petals embellish the ground denoting that the party has moved on...
Cameron Lings 'Fired Through Life' (detail) 2023
Matt Lee’s film the ‘Presence of Absence’ inverts 3D and 2D space through the creation of an animated shape that eclipses the urbanscapes available within and from a gated community in Yelahanka on the suburban outskirts of Bengaluru.
Alice Quarterman’s pieces ‘O’ and ‘Elastic’ foreground rhythm and experience, utilising actions or traces to challenge calendar time whilst querying the distinction between the actual and in/actual.
Charlie Hurcombe’s sculptures, such as ‘Factory Variant’, offer colourful layerings of perspex, formica, acrylic and vinyl that draw together the industrial and the everyday to create a unique medium and pattern that expresses fragmented realities.
Frank Waterton’s work evokes planetary surfaces; devoid of life, the texture and colour remind the viewer of the potential and actual realities without human and thingly presences.
Maryanne Royle’s innovative creative process pushes the photographic medium and interrogates the pixel by creating analogue prints via the light emitted from a smartphone screen.
Yole Quintero’s chromogenic prints capture glitched words entangled with the pandemic; the artworks are the product of an iterative process that forefronts computer mediated communication and worlds.
Phil Lambert’s meditative works utilise single colour palettes and natural materials; ‘Square Root Progression’ queries the relationship between mathematics and philosophy, and the validity and role of the straight line and compass to mediate natural worlds.
Paul Hartley explores seeing and focusing on objects in a literal sense, whilst capturing the complexity of information and the fluidity of the world through mark-making.
Grafik 2.1 embraces a CMYK palette to create an intriguing monochromatic aesthetic that addresses the act of abstraction whilst alluding to the subtle layering of incidental trace. Alice Quarterman’s pieces ‘O’ and ‘Elastic’ foreground rhythm and experience, utilising actions or traces to challenge calendar time whilst querying the distinction between the actual and in/actual.
Matt Lee 'Presence of Absence' (detail)
Curator Eloise Govier, in front of her artwork Y Nos, Penbryn
Curated by Eloise Govier
Dr Eloise Govier is an artist from Wales with studios in Cenarth and Wiltshire. She is a published academic writer who explores ideas about human-thing relations, AI, plastic, and knowledge-making practices in art, archaeology and anthropology. Eloise has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.
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