Lou Hazelwood | Landscapes of the (Un)known
In March we begin our 2020 programme by returning to the Landscape of Hull. As with last year’s exhibition and performances by Yol, Posset & Lloyd which dissected a very small aspect of the Hull landscape, Hazelwood has chosen to depict aspects of the landscape that many will pass by without second glance despite their prominence within it. Alongside the recognisable aspects of the landscape, we will be delving beneath the surface to reveal the hidden landscapes of the mind through the process of abstraction in the photographic darkroom. Come and join us on Friday 6th March 7:30-9:30pm for the Preview of Landscapes of the (Un)known
Bruce Davies | January 2020
Landscapes of the (Un)known
This work explores the known and the unknown in choice of subject matter, process and material through analogue photography and the darkroom.
Stemming from long term obsessions with analogue photography and chemical manipulation the experimental processes such as disrupting the film processing and darkroom explorations with light and chemicals using unpredictable vintage paper stock and vintage films enabled happenstance elements that created imagined rural landscapes, unknown landscapes.
Gasholders
I remember vividly my very patient dad telling me how the gas-o-meter worked as we passed it regularly on Armley gyratory; it fascinated me as a child and still does now.
Sometimes it was high in the sky, and then it had disappeared. The idea that this central tower stored all of the gas that we needed was intriguing. How had we measured what we needed? How even did we measure gas? We had a giant measuring cup in the sky that seemed to know, a visual egg timer for our fuel and heat.
Gas, we learnt at school, was not liquid or solid so how was it not only measured but also contained? Proof of its existence was left to density, colour, smell and application.
It seemed magical to the young me in it’s invisible power and strength to move the looming tower of the gas-o-meter something like the magnificent power of the wind in moving the trees.
The working structures are now only recalled by memory and what remains of them are the ironwork structures demanding a place in the landscape simultaneously known and unknown, yet rapidly disappearing, so this conversation through image, text and film is at this moment with both a historical and a contemporary landscape.
Lou Hazelwood | January 2020
PREVIEW
Friday 6th March | 7:30 - 9:30pm
Exhibition Open
Sunday 8th March | 2pm - 4pm
Monday 9th March | March | 11am - 2pm
Thursday 12th March | 11am - 2pm
Sunday 15th March | 2pm - 4pm
Monday 16th March | 11am - 2pm
Thursday 19th March | 11am - 2pm
Exhibition Remains Open By Appointment until
Monday 30th March
Lunchtime Conversation
Tuesday 17th March | 12 - 2pm
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