DUST
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PORTALS AND ENTITIES
26th FEBRUARY - 9th APRIL 2022
This work forms part of a journey, made from a combination of scenes encountered whilst traveling through an astral realm, and the unmistakably powerful and magical landscape of West Cornwall.
I started Astral Projection in a bid to find some sort of guidance, to help cope with the overwhelming grief I was experiencing at the time. I was instinctively drawn to it, and found myself encountering deep meditative journeys, abundant with imagery from a lifetime of dreams and subconscious language.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE OBJECT
ANDREW BRYANT
SHOP EXHIBITION
20TH NOVEMBER -12TH FEBRUARY
I often think of the black ball as a brooding presence that stares back, and in this sense I’m excited see how it works being shown alongside the cadaver trolley paintings, which also look back at you. I want the paintings to be intense and disturbing, and at the same time fascinating. Death is like that. It is difficult to look at but at the same time compelling. Despite myself I can’t not look. Looking, when I look at death, is incomplete, out of control, my eyes no longer obey my ‘I’. I don’t want to see what I can’t stop looking at.
Andrew Bryant
Untitled (refrigerated trolley), 2018, acrylic on canvas on board, 30x42cm
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Jonathan Michael Ray
I meet you at the cemetery gates (after Morrissey)
4TH SEPTEMBER - 6TH NOVEMBER 2021
This small shrine, by sculptor Jonathan Michael Ray was created at home during the first lockdown of 2020. Using objects found or collected only from local sources, it consists of artefacts that suggest debris from a burial site or sacred space. They point toward a story fragmented and unfinished leaving space for the viewer to imagine how it might unfold. It reminds me of the feeling you often have when standing in front of a grave. There is so much we don't know yet we are met with a strange feeling of familiarity through words, symbolism and imagery. The latin inscription reads "we are all but dust and shadow".
Jessica Fox and Clare Knight sing to the souls of the dead live in DUST November 1st 2020.
Images: Lee Palmer
Documentation of live event in DUST 2020