Private view: Wednesday 8 March, 6-8pm to celebrate International Women’s Day 2023
Guest selector: Kathleen Soriano, Director of Hastings Contemporary and Presenter of Sky Arts Artist of the Year
Exhibition continues until Saturday 8 April 2023
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
Ella Clocksin (2023) Lurking in the Shrubbery. Watercolour, pencil & collage, framed 28 x 43 cm.
The work plays with that uncanny sense of wondering whether someone is watching, screened behind foliage. Lurking in the Shrubbery exemplifies pareidolia. This is perception’s tendency to impose a meaningful interpretation onto random visual stimuli or inanimate objects, e.g. seeing a face in the clouds. Or an abstract painting. From my residency at The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford in 2022.