'Time' Exhibition - The Open Art Collective

As part of The Open Art Collective, an OCA student group that is partly comprised of members of the Thames Valley Study Group, we have an exhibition of work showing for the next two weeks. The theme is 'Time' and opens today at The Lightbox Gallery, Woking:

I enjoyed putting a project together for this exhibition. The work I submitted is called 'Crustal Deformations 1-5' and uses double exposure digital technology to juxtapose two disparate images together.

Crustal Deformations 1 – 5

Crustal deformation is caused by tectonic activity that compresses, tensions, and shears the earth's crust. Material on the surface deforms, creating new landforms that change positions, shape, and orientation.

In this series I conceptualise the geological process of crustal deformation by creating double exposures that merge cityscapes and the built environment with the natural one. The new landforms and oblique planes in my images remind us that in geological terms, the solid ground that we stand upon is an illusion relative to time.

My partner, Gerry, is a painting and drawing student with the OCA and also a member of the collective. We drove down to Woking for the hang on Monday and met up with the other students. The hang has mainly been organised by Catherine Banks and Dawn Langley and the finished exhibition is looking really good. We will be back on Thursday for the Artist's Evening and I'm looking forward to engaging with visitor's to the exhibition.