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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 Conversion OBS Gallery Tonbridge School, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1JP Tel: 01732 365555 [email protected] www.tonbridge-school.co.uk/obsg /obsgallery @OBSGallery www.tonbridge-school.co.uk/obsg