Venue
The Glass Room
Starts
Friday, May 4, 2012
Ends
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Address
Colston Hall Colston Street Bristol BS1 5AR
Location
South West England

Sheona Beaumont and Walter Dirks. Part of the Bristol Festival of Photography. Sheona Beaumont will also be exhibiting at St Stephen’s Church and St George’s Crypt Gallery – see the festival website for details, www.bfop.org. Images of landscapes are often held to be emotive and personally meaningful: memory, document, evocation of situation, expression, spirit, wonder are all levels of meaning given to photographs taken of particular places. In this exhibition, two photographers draw on both their local connections to Bristol and their experiences living and travelling abroad, to consider the photographed landscape as coloured with such meaning. Sheona Beaumont uses digital manipulation to create collaged or inverted scenes, often highlighting the spiritual dimension of our relation to our environment. Walter Dirks captures the beauty in simplicity, reflecting on an uncluttered way of seeing as much as on the subtle harmony of nature’s forms and colours. Together, they seek to re-enchant our looking and to celebrate the brilliance of the world around us.