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The Bright field
— Contemporary Responses to Landscape —
19 September –
15 November 2015
Open SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY 12-4PM
Admission free
The Bright field
— Contemporary Responses to Landscape —
The Bright Field explores contemporary responses to landscape through the
practice of 5 artists. Their work in this exhibition is linked by its relationship
to the Romantic concept of the Sublime, which has been re-imagined in a
21st century context. The exhibition title is taken from a poem by R S Thomas
about an encounter with the divine through landscape; in the Romantic
Sublime, the power of nature was often a metaphor for the power of God.
The Sublime traditionally suggests an engagement with nature as infinitely
powerful and terrible, positioning humanity as witness to the awesome
beauty of nature’s spectacle.
The works in the exhibition suggest that there is now a shifting dynamic
in this power relationship and that we are no longer passive observers.
In contemporary media narratives of ecology and ecological disaster,
we tremble before our capacity to destroy nature. However, with rising
fears about environmental catastrophe, nature has reappeared as a limit to
human power, wealth and progress. The Bright Field explores this changing
dynamic, our relationship to our physical environment, and landscape as a
location for narrative and meaning.
19 September –
15 November 2015
Open SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY 12-4PM
& MON-FRI for booked groups
To book e-mail:
[email protected]
Admission free
Picture credits:
Anthony Whishaw RA
Summer Field
Gina Glover
Ice Mountain,
Jökulsárlón Lake,
Iceland
Jessica Rayner
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OBS Gallery
Tonbridge School,
Tonbridge,
Kent, TN9 1JP
Tel: 01732 365555
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