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John Brennan, Invocation, Oil on canvas
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Tom Banks, Ironlatch, Oil on canvas
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Kirsty Harris, Prescribed, Single channel projection
Exhibition
Strange Love
8 Sep 2018 – 16 Sep 2018
Event times
Saturday and Sunday 12-4pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Bankley Street
- Levenshulme
- M19 3PP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 192 (191, 197, 168 and 169 also come near to the studios)
- Levenshulme station
Negotiating the lines between ambiguous narratives and the spectacle of the decisive moment, Strange Love explores the contemporary notion of fear as a site of inspiration.
Work from artists John Brennan, Tom Banks & Kirsty Harris.
Curated by Dr. Daniel Barnes
About
The exhibition draws together three artists who interrogate and re-examine beauty as a response to this fear. At the core of this project is the romantic notion that beauty, in and of itself, is a source of great consolation.
The artists create aesthetic counterpoint and emotional reflection between the media of painting and film inviting multiple entry points. The quiet intimacy of Banks’ small scale works contrasts with the underlying paranoia of Brennan’s larger pieces, whose work in turn hints at some of the Cold War themes of Harris’ painting and film. From Harris’s explosions to Banks’ trees and through Brennan’s portraits, the works oscillate between tension or fear and tranquility or serenity.
