- Venue
- ArtWorks Studios & Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, March 6, 2014
- Ends
- Saturday, March 15, 2014
- Address
- Unit 3 The Old Printworks Navigation Road Northwich Cheshire CW8 1BP
- Location
- East Midlands
In this themed solo show Sheffield based artist John Wilkinson explores physical and social destruction and renewal. Drawn from the derelict industrial landscape of the north, his paintings are a commentary on a very human behaviour. Our history has been marked, and our development encouraged, by our willingness to let go the past and to constantly recreate. The consequences are not always fruitful, and our eyes seldom able to see beyond the immediacy of our leap, but from the slash and burn approach that accompanied our drift from hunter-gatherer, to the alacrity of our abandonment of industry in favour of the financial markets, destruction and ruins have been the building blocks of our world. ‘We are not in the least afraid of ruins’ references this behaviour, and the lives that have been consumed in making it possible. Created in a post-industrial landscape littered with reminders of the past, the work encourages us to examine the mode and pace of our development and also to recognise it’s cost.
Opening night is March 6th 6.30pm, all are welcome.
