13th January - 4th March 2007
Second Floor - Galleries 1,2 & 3
Listen to our exclusive interview with Tim Davies (Recorded 11.01.07)
Originated by Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Tim Davies’ latest exhibition, Cadet and other works, is enhanced by a site specific commission and other additional work for the Harris Museum and Art Gallery showing.
Widely exhibited and acclaimed, Tim Davies was short-listed for the inaugural Artes Mundi award in 2004, and was also winner of the Mostyn Open in 1998, the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 2003 and the Wakelin Award in 2005.
This exhibition of new work focuses on memory and the cyclical nature of war and personal grief. Following World War I, memorials were constructed throughout Europe as a constant reminder that it was a ‘war to end all wars’. Moved by recent and on-going military operations and hostilities, Davies has produced a body of work based on these civic monuments and what they have come to represent. This powerful exhibition, including performative video and two-dimensional works, touches on the space between public ceremony and private silence and loss.
The title work, Cadet, has been further developed for the Preston exhibition and contains footage of the recent 2006 Remembrance Day ceremony that took place in front of the Harris Museum and Art Gallery. A controlled reverence and sense of loss is heavily contrasted against the dizzying effect of the artist trying to comprehend the concept of loss and futility.
The show also contains the European Drawings series. A graphite veil shimmers across the surface of each framed work obscuring something recognisable. As you negotiate the work more information is revealed, suddenly you are surrounded by war memorials and held by the weight of events and the people they represent.
Other work made in 2006 includes Still, a flickering DVD loop of butterflies and moths, their stolen life re-animated through their representation; and the acts of remembrance contained in Arrangements I – IX (The Cuba Jug) and Wreathmaker II. The exhibition will be expanded for the Preston showing with the display of Figures in a European Landscape, a series of postcards with voids where people once stood in clich
Second Floor - Galleries 1,2 & 3
Listen to our exclusive interview with Tim Davies (Recorded 11.01.07)Originated by Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Tim Davies’ latest exhibition, Cadet and other works, is enhanced by a site specific commission and other additional work for the Harris Museum and Art Gallery showing.
Widely exhibited and acclaimed, Tim Davies was short-listed for the inaugural Artes Mundi award in 2004, and was also winner of the Mostyn Open in 1998, the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 2003 and the Wakelin Award in 2005.
This exhibition of new work focuses on memory and the cyclical nature of war and personal grief. Following World War I, memorials were constructed throughout Europe as a constant reminder that it was a ‘war to end all wars’. Moved by recent and on-going military operations and hostilities, Davies has produced a body of work based on these civic monuments and what they have come to represent. This powerful exhibition, including performative video and two-dimensional works, touches on the space between public ceremony and private silence and loss.
The title work, Cadet, has been further developed for the Preston exhibition and contains footage of the recent 2006 Remembrance Day ceremony that took place in front of the Harris Museum and Art Gallery. A controlled reverence and sense of loss is heavily contrasted against the dizzying effect of the artist trying to comprehend the concept of loss and futility.
The show also contains the European Drawings series. A graphite veil shimmers across the surface of each framed work obscuring something recognisable. As you negotiate the work more information is revealed, suddenly you are surrounded by war memorials and held by the weight of events and the people they represent.
Other work made in 2006 includes Still, a flickering DVD loop of butterflies and moths, their stolen life re-animated through their representation; and the acts of remembrance contained in Arrangements I – IX (The Cuba Jug) and Wreathmaker II. The exhibition will be expanded for the Preston showing with the display of Figures in a European Landscape, a series of postcards with voids where people once stood in clich
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