Forthcoming exhibition
Fadelands
Marc Atkins
Allsop Gallery
Bridport Arts Centre
9 South Street
Bridport
Dorset
DT6 3NR
to
Private View
Exhibition statement
Fadelands is a journey through varying landscapes, entangled paths and buildings of myriad rooms, where fleeting insights, points of intricacies, shifts in shadow and fissures within certainties move towards elusive images and innominate forms. The work examines notions of the found and the imagined, the elegant and the desolate, perceptual uncertainty and the disturbing nature of beauty.
In Fadelands, images and ideas are ruptured and reformed, held within a page, a form, a screen or surface, before crossing the liminal and seeping out over time. For this exhibition, Atkins brings together sculpture, drawing and lens based imagery, using mechanical, chemical and digital processes, everyday objects, construction and discarded materials.
Framed and unframed images, small and large sculptural works, and time-based images on intimate and larger screens form a potent multidimensional composition.
Brief biography
Marc Atkins is an English artist working in lens based media, drawing, painting, sculpture and text. He lived and worked for many years in London, with extended periods in Rome, Detroit, New York, Warsaw and Paris, and has recently moved to Bridport. Atkins has presented his work and ideas on the image at venues including the Royal Academy, London, the Royal College of Art, London, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Université de Liège, Belgium, and CRASSH, University of Cambridge. His images are held in public and private collections, including Tate, London, the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the University of Cambridge. His solo books include The Logic of the Stairwell, The Prism Walls, Silent Street, The Teratologists, Catalogue and Warszawa.
Fadelands
Allsop Gallery
Bridport Arts Centre
9 South Street
Bridport
Dorset
DT6 3NR
to
Private View