Exhibition

Monster Chetwynd, Christopher Stewart, Norman Adams: Swoop Swirl Swarm

1 November - 6 December 2024
11am - 5pm
Free to all

Works dealing with the theme of flight from 3 artists with the power to provoke a combination of awe and anxiety.

Flight, whether natural or mechanical, can inspire awe. We can relish the spectacle of flight, but sometimes, there’s an edge – a sense of menace, particularly in collective airborne movement. This exhibition brings together works dealing with flight from three artists with the power to provoke this combination of awe and anxiety.

Christopher Stewart captures both the chilling choreography of airborne military exercises, and the twilight animation of thousands of bats, imbuing both with a sense of foreboding as well as wonder.

Monster Chetwynd’s Bat Opera paintings allow us a different interaction with this flying species that can be a focus or irrational fears. Swirling formations, eerie landscapes and sudden close-up encounters combine beauty and potential menace.

Norman Adams’ seabirds have an elemental aspect, their flight an embodiment of the natural forces at play in a landscape that render humans small and insignificant.

Together, these works will immerse viewers in a visual and audio exploration of how we respond to swirling, swarming flight.

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