- Venue
- Gallery of Wonder
- Starts
- Monday, May 9, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, June 4, 2011
- Address
- Gallery of Wonder Fine Art School of Arts and Cultures The Quadrangle Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
- Location
- North East England
These are landscape paintings and sculptures; but they are imagined, prophetic landscapes depicting a new heaven and earth, rather than the visible world of tangible reality alone. The innocent, child-like quality of these works perfectly captures the sense of rapturous joy that has inspired their creation. They conjure up a world of imprecise spaces and hybrid creatures; the peripheral, unfocussed world of the half-seen that inspires the question – ‘I wonder?’ And whilst this question will lead to the searching focus of investigation and the defined, categorizing boundaries of knowledge that can seem to seal the world’s porous thresholds, these works remind us of that threshold space on the edge where the seen and unseen, known and unknown mingle – the space of wonder. Essay: Revd Dr Richard Davey Co-ordinating Chaplain – Nottingham Trent University
