(Un) Sustainable?
Date: 21 November - 13 December 2012
Venue: Main gallery and balcony
Private View: Thursday 22 November, 5.00pm
Andy Webster will visit Ruskin Gallery to talk about his work on Thursday 22 November, 13.00-14.00.
The exhibition (Un) Sustainable? aimed to encourage and explore responses to the idea of sustainability, a term that can be perceived both as a tired worn out cliché but also as an imperative for future thinking and acting. Andy Webster is interested in how arts practice can be used as a means to critically engage with difficult and complex terms such as these.
Andy's work is a sculptural practice that is often collaborative and integrates performance, moving image, sound, drawing and time. A common characteristic of his projects is that they are frequently set up in open-ended ways so that feedback from the environment, such as sunlight, sound, humidity or participation from the audience, contributes to the unfolding of the work.
For the exhibition (Un) Sustainable? Andy made a new sculptural work that explores the potential of integrating DIY electronics, solar technologies, solar LEDs and found materials. His aim was to set up a temporary platform to consider, discuss and propose responses to the question 'what is sustainable?' and to encourage wider engagement with what a term such as 'sustainability' might mean.
Andy is an artist researcher in the Art, Nature, Environment research group (RANE), based at University College Falmouth, UK. The focus of the research group is to examine the relationship between the visual arts and ecological thinking, and to explore creative methods through which art may impact on our current environmental predicament. By using artistic practice the group aims to offer interpretations and models of thinking about the natural world that help to promote a sustainable future.
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Andy's work is a sculptural practice that is often collaborative and integrates performance, moving image, sound, drawing and time. A common characteristic of his projects is that they are frequently set up in open-ended ways so that feedback from the environment, such as sunlight, sound, humidity or participation from the audience, contributes to the unfolding of the work.
For the exhibition (Un) Sustainable? Andy made a new sculptural work that explores the potential of integrating DIY electronics, solar technologies, solar LEDs and found materials. His aim was to set up a temporary platform to consider, discuss and propose responses to the question 'what is sustainable?' and to encourage wider engagement with what a term such as 'sustainability' might mean.
Andy is an artist researcher in the Art, Nature, Environment research group (RANE), based at University College Falmouth, UK. The focus of the research group is to examine the relationship between the visual arts and ecological thinking, and to explore creative methods through which art may impact on our current environmental predicament. By using artistic practice the group aims to offer interpretations and models of thinking about the natural world that help to promote a sustainable future.
Please click images to enlarge.
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