UNLIT PATH
Research practices examining contemporary understandings of landscape

Exhibition: Hardwick Gallery, Thursday 22 September to Friday 18 November 2022

Open Monday to Friday 10am-4pm

Join us at Hardwick Gallery to hear more about the process and development of Greensounds Immersive in a Q&A with lecturers and researchers at the University of Gloucestershire, Philip Reeder and Alice Goodenough on Wednesday 9 November, 5-6.30pm

 

Plants and animals are also a language, even in our reduced, domesticated English, where children grow like weeds, or come out smelling of roses, the market is made up of bulls and bears, politics of hawks and doves. Like cards, flora and fauna could be read again and again, not only alone but in combination, in the endlessly shifting combinations of a nature that tells its own stories and colours ours, a nature we are losing without even knowing the extent of that loss.

Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005)

 

Unlit Path is an evolving exhibition and research environment exploring various understandings of landscape, connecting art practice and contemporary ideas. The group exhibition presents work-in-progress alongside ongoing and completed projects by staff research practitioners at the University of Gloucestershire and associated artists. Artwork will shift, move, accrue during the exhibition period as material develops or is revised, inviting repeat visits to engage with research practice in progress.

Antony Lyons presents work-in-progress being developed through ongoing projects in England and Wales, under the titles Slow Flows and Terrains Vagues/Waste Lands; Matthew Murray presents photographic work from his practice-based PhD projects Millstream Way and Arenig; Onya McCausland will present artefacts from research developed in the village of Six Bells, Gwent, where pigmented material derived from post-industrial waste is being used to create commercial artists’ colour and house paint; Susie Olczak presents sculptures and a video work made in collaboration with Emma Elliott on a recent residency in Panama; Alice Goodenough & Philip Reeder present Greensounds, an immersive 3-D treescape soundscape that allows listeners to hear and track individual sounds, derived from research into health and wellbeing.