- Venue
- 34 The Moor
- Starts
- Friday, January 15, 2010
- Ends
- Friday, January 22, 2010
- Address
- 34 The Moor Sheffield S6 1WE
- Location
- Yorkshire
Instinct is an exhibition comprising the work of six visual artists. Claire Blundell-Jones, Andy Broadey, Hondartza Fraga, Steve Humble, Victoria Lucas and Jon Proctor have created a body of work that responds to the theme of instinctive behaviour. Instinct can be described as behaving spontaneously, reacting in an animalistic way, not by learned behaviour or based on experience but by intuition. When are the moments when we feel most instinctual? What is it to be human or animal and what is the relationship between us? We live in tandem with animals; in fact, our genetic make-up can be extremely similar, yet as people, we consider ourselves the dominant species. We ultimately govern the planet and yet we, the more ‘intelligent’ species, are in many ways actually destroying it. From this huge topic, the artists will pose their own questions and comment on our humanistic ‘animalistic’ side, which vary from the humorous to the macabre, the confessional, to the symbolic and representational. The artists have been selected because these questions are already festering within their respective artistic practices, and are being grappled with through a range of media and visual languages.
