Two Photographers: Stuart
Blackwood and Maggy Milner
Stuart showed photographs
from his series, 'Discovering The Invisible' and Maggy some from her series of
digital photomontages called 'Rise and Fall'.
Stuart's
photographs of Southwell Minster always show it semi-hidden. The series was
inspired by three postcards of views of the Minster on sale in the shop. They
were reproductions of paintings (one by JMW Turner) done when the Minster
stood, enormous within its graveyard, in fields full of sheep and cattle.
Nowadays, with trees everywhere obscuring those views, Stuart has had another
look at/for the Minster.
Maggy's
digital montages reveal disquieting vistas with inexplicable veins of dark
humour. She describes them as "Dystopia with a twist of lemon" and
says, "for millions of years
humanity has survived because of the natural world, but we have also exploited,
abused and caused immeasurable harm. We live in a world of instability, change
and precarious risk. Nothing is fixed but constantly moving, changing,
attempting to maintain an equilibrium. For a few years now I have been
exploring these notions … risk, balancing acts, Flux and flow…"
29th
June - 9th July 2019
http://www.southwellartists.co.uk/bla_dolmens.html
https://www.lensculture.com/projects/492652-rise-and-fall-2015