Highlights

Pilgrimage, 2023 by Anna Gillespie

Wall based work in plaster and twigs on the theme of walking and touching the earth.  Made for an exhibition at Tremenheere sculpture gardens in Cornwall.

150 x 160cm

270726, 2024 - 2026 by Stuart Dodman

Oil on canvas.

Part of a series of work produced while thinking about accumulation, experience, mass, material and time.

26 x 20cm

Crushed, 2026 by Graeme Reed

At first the image looks like the remains of something that has been flattened or broken, but it is difficult to say exactly what it is. The longer you look, the more the shapes seem to shift, revealing different possibilities without settling on one. The scattered forms around the main image add to the feeling that something has come apart. Rather than illustrating destruction directly, the print captures a moment of uncertainty, leaving viewers to decide what has happened and what the fragments might represent.

30 x 42cm

Edge of Space, 2019 by Ginny Reed

‘Edge of Space’, appropriates video of Felix Baumgartner’s jump from the stratosphere in 2012. His body, descending at supersonic speed, tumbles feather-like in the air, before stabilising to a barely discernible, diving figure. A short-wave infrared camera; ‘JLAIR’ (Joint Long-range Aerospace Imaging and Relay), captured Baumgartner from 24 miles away. This custom-developed, high-powered optical tracking unit occasionally looses its tiny target, and the footage judders before reconnecting. The soft, low-fi quality also reflects the challenge of capturing a human at this distance and speed. Like many experiments in emergent astrophotography, Baumgartner’s dive is at the limits of the apparatus’ abilities to capture it. The soundtrack combines the sonic boom when Baumgartner breaks the sound barrier with an atmospheric imagining of outer space from the Warner Brothers sound catalogue. The reality of this record breaking dive reflects the physics defying nature of animation; a dangerous, crazily ambitious plan that the protagonist pulls off in style.