Exhibition

Unfamiliar Territories: Sara Dudman RWA & Jenny Graham

6 May 2017 – 29 May 2017

Regular hours

Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00
Monday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

Free entry

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In an unfamiliar territory, they found a creative path... Sara Dudman RWA and Jenny Graham inhabit a fervent landscape that gave inspiration to the likes of Coleridge and Turner. Their new exhibition, which opens at Contains Art on 6th May, records this journey.

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Exploring a small footprint of the West Somerset coastline from Watchet, non-locals Sara Dudman and Jenny Graham record a creative journey and interpret their own practice through this unfamiliar territory. 

Having previously explored other unfamiliar territories, their artistic partnership is a continuation of periods spent in Cornwall, Northumberland and North Yorkshire. Specifically, the pair will address their contrasting work from the coastlines and quaysides of Staithes in North Yorkshire and Watchet in West Somerset. 

Investing part of their Winter in Watchet, the artists withdrew to their studios to reflect on this intensive period of research and information gathering. 

Sara Dudman found silent reflection compared to the harsh North Yorkshire coastline. The expanse of silt and eroded shorelines gave contrast to the massive theatre of Yorkshire’s monumental cliffs. Sketching at the water’s edge, she confronted the traces of rocks obscuring the deserted beaches like sea defences. Painting with gesso and watercolour on paper, she exploits layers of activity and reduces her imagery to only essential information; like the coastal wash that deposits and exposes in its wake.

Jenny Graham collected natural and man-made ephemera, her journey being a nostalgic recalling of blustery seaside weekends around the UK. The information that Graham collected, be it natural deposits along the beach or postcards of the area, all worked themselves back into her practice. Natural soils became pigment, postcards became platforms for image building. Orderly and evocative, Graham’s approach to her practice layered imagery to create an aesthetic of regeneration with its origin in the tidal wash of land meeting sea. 

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