Exhibition

Sculpture Shock SUBTERRANEAN 2015 | Lynn Dennison in the Rotherhithe Shaft

14 May 2015 – 17 May 2015

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Thursday
10:00 – 17:00
Friday
10:00 – 17:00
Saturday
10:00 – 17:00
Sunday
10:00 – 17:00

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All Sculpture Shock events are free of charge and open to all age groups

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This Spring, RBS Sculpture Shock invites you to descend 50ft beneath the streets of south east London with SUBTERRANEAN winner Lynn Dennison’s intervention inside Sir Marc Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Grand Entrance Hall.

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This Spring, RBS Sculpture Shock invites you to descend 50ft beneath the streets of south east London with SUBTERRANEAN winner Lynn Dennison’s intervention inside Sir Marc Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Grand Entrance Hall. One of the most important Subterranean sites in engineering history, Dennison’s installation floods the shaft with the sights and sounds of the nearby River Thames. Visitors have a heightened sense of their own vulnerability as they shuffle through the restricted street level entrance and emerge in the immense space of the shaft now commandeered by Dennison’s sub-aquatic world. Despite its initially unsettling impact, and its correlation to historical events in the shafts creation, Dennison is not trying to convince her audience that her projected illusion is real. On the contrary she challenges them to discover the slender margin between reality and fiction as they descend the scaffolding staircase to become immersed in the crashing waves. By seamlessly combining these two supposedly incompatible environments Dennison hopes to illuminate the sublime beauty of the landscape and uncontainable power of nature as she asks her audience to think again about the environment that surrounds them.
This work is the culmination of Dennison’s Royal British Society of Sculptors Sculpture Shock 2015 Subterranean residency. Now in its final year, this ground breaking award encourages surprising site specific spatial interventions in non-traditional spaces outside the confines of the white cube. The work of the winning artists appears in one of three environments: subterranean (the unseen world underneath our city), ambulatory (without physical confines in movement through space and time) and historic (an illustrious building in London).

As part of the nationwide festival ‘Museums at Night’ Dennison has been collaborating with experimental composer and RCM postgraduate student Leo Loebenberg. In response to Dennison’s work Loebenberg has created an exclusive composition which will see the acoustic and visual arts combine and be performed on Saturday 16 May 2015.

Please note that the entrance to the Rotherhithe shaft is very basic and regrettably there is no step free access. The Museum is a heritage site and we recommend that guests wear suitable footwear and clothing for the environment, high heeled shoes are not permitted.

Please RSVP to Zana at invite@rbs.org.uk

For more information visit our website:  www.sculptureshock.rbs.org.uk or call 02073738615

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