Exhibition
The Cloud Series
4 Oct 2007 – 28 Oct 2007
Event times
Thursday - Sunday 12pm-5pm
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 75-77 Broadway Market
- London
- E8 4PH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bethnal Green / London Fields BR
Event map
Dawn Shorten: The Cloud Series
About
These small gouaches, painted on translucent drafting film and mounted over grey card, isolate and loosely transcribe elements from old master paintings and other source material including film stills, newspaper photographs, and illustrations from vintage meteorology textbooks.Accompanying the paintings are sculptures in porcelain based on rock formations depicted in Renaissance paintings. Jagged rock formations and sinister caves presented threats and provided refuge to travellers, and so take a dualistic role in the interpretation of the works.
These portrayals of storms and rocks are metaphors for the trials of human existence.