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Rendlesham 4, 2016 Oil on panel 60 x 60 cm
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Rendlesham 6, 2016 Oil on panel 60 x 60 cm
Exhibition
Rendlesham - New Paintings by Kate Sherman
5 Nov 2016 – 13 Nov 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 14 St George's Place
- Brighton
- BN1 4GB
- United Kingdom
Kate Sherman’s solo painting exhibition, Rendlesham, is the culmination of a two-year project she undertook to document and create a portrait of a forest. We will also be screening a short film, Through the Trees, by Barney Dunnett.
About
A Forestry Commission site, Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk offers a vision of order. Tall straight pines stand in planted rows, a managed grid system for timber harvesting. This is no wild forest, it has about it a sense of calm, of stillness. The darkness of the forest floor is complemented by the brightness of the sky above maintained clearings. Sound changes: our voices no longer resonate, absorbed by the canopy. Amongst the trees we experience anticipation for something mysterious, unknowable, a wish not unconnected with a series of alleged UFO sightings at Rendlesham in December 1980.
There are no extra-terrestrials here, though there is a discarded bike. As in her other work, Kate Sherman glimpses the edges of things, the beginnings of possibilities, where comfort is delicately balanced by unease, giving a curious sense of edgy tranquillity. When was anyone last at the table? Will they ever be back? What has happened here? What will happen? What has the forest seen?
Painted on panels of ply these images have an organic, self-referential quality. Beneath the paint – applied using small pieces of cardboard – are thin, bonded layers of the spruce it depicts. Sherman’s paintings are themselves part of the natural/man-made duality of the forest, and are an episode in its continuum.
www.kateshermanpaintings.co.uk
