Exhibition
Beyond Body
30 Apr 2022 – 26 May 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Free admission
Address
- 2 Bridge Street
- Frome
- BA11 1BB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- By Bus: There are regular buses from Bath, Trowbridge and Wells.
- By Road: We are adjacent to the main car park
- By Rail: We are fifteen minutes walk from Frome railway station.
This exhibition sets out to test the boundaries of what it is to be human by investigating the porous relationship we share with the non-human world of rock.
About
By working directly with rock and morphing that with the human body, these sculptures, drawings and paintings by Hitchens investigate the essence of things we perceive through a body of work which questions differences between animate and inanimate.
Hitchens has made a series of hybrid works, uncanny and speculative beings which seek to re-conceive the human. These works become zoomorphic reformations that display strange living qualities, visceral unions between rock and flesh that comprehend the geological world and the flesh world as united, investigating the essence of things we perceive: the physical, natural world and our place within it. They seek to understand the sublime qualities of rock: physically as the very earth that supports us and geologically as the almost ageless constant that resonates through time, giving perspective to our transient lives on this planet.
