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Winter Solstice - Quadtriptic
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Uncertain States I
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East-Wing gallery
Exhibition
Chaos in Paradise
1 Jan 2022 – 10 Apr 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- Muddiford
- Barnstaple
England - EX31 4EX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus route 301 click here to check times. The bus driver will stop outside estate on request, you must discuss with driver and be ready to press stop button after you pass Blakewell Fishery. If you get to Plaistow Mill Trout Farm, you’ve gone too far!
- Barnstaple station, then taxi or bus
An immersive, diverse, and constantly changing exhibition showcased throughout the ground floor of the hotel and restaurant. Consisting of twenty-three works by RCA graduate Judith Burrows.
About
Chaos in Paradise grapples with deep emotional uncertainty, and prevailing global concerns: political, psychological, and ecological in an interdisciplinary practice that includes painting, print, sculpture, film, photography and sound, combining installation in a contemporary context. Large steel panels, paintings, and sculptures explore an imbalance of natural order, fragile eco-systems, and the precarity of humanity on the cusp.
In her creative process is a search for balance, symbiosis and connectivity, at a time of disconnection: an interaction of nature and the elements with man-made materials, combined with her own interventions. At a point of vulnerability what is revealed in the printed outlines of the source material, and the rich tones and form decided by nature is a fragility on the surface in metamorphosis; a palimpsest holding memory in process: a rebirth.
Vivid colour palettes and intimate memories project beauty, despite the presence of chaotic darkness in the compositions. Burrows’ prolific experience of location scouting around the world is apparent in her paintings: she zooms in, freeze-frames that transient moment, exploring it through different combined perspectives. The result is artwork realised with a photographer’s astute eye for composition, which enhances Burrows’ impressions of nostalgia in vast surreal landscapes.
Connection with our natural environment is more of a necessity than ever, Broomhill Estate is exploring ways to help to connect the local community with a symbiotic approach to conservational and garden projects. Burrows’ work embodies this ethos.
“In a time of uncertainty’, disconnect and global precariousness, I am prompting a dialogue between living organisms, and the man-made, and exploring a parallel mutual interaction.”
