Daily opening times: 10am-4pm
This exhibition of the work of artist and photographer Judy Goldhill explores our complex relationship to darkness and the night. Traditionally, in literature, art and film, dark skies offer a motif of dread and foreboding, as darkness falls transforming the everyday into the unknown, creating a space to project our fears, both real and imagined.
Goldhill’s photographs remind us, that culture and experience can be very different things. Her images of dark skies are full of beauty and wonder, allowing us to place ourselves in the universe and travel back in time. Before we turned our backs on the night, flooding it with light, we looked to the stars and their constellations to trace out the ancient myths and stories of our ancestors’ imaginations and used them as navigational tools to guide us on our way.
In the twenty-first century, we find dark skies like so much of our natural environment, are fragile, threatened by light pollution from below, and planes and satellites from above. This exhibition Ro Spanke reveals the amazing variety of phenomena visible to the naked eye. I hope it inspires you to step outside tonight and look up.
Ro Spankie
Private viewing: Saturday 14th September and Friday 27th September
@judygoldhill
www.judygoldhill.com
judy@judygoldhill.com
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Guide
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Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence
Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
Paik’s Video Study
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)
Sebastião Salgado – Amazônia
A Peek through the Iron Curtain with Sibylle Bergemann’s Wintry Duo
Lingering in Time : Koo Bohnchang’s Photography 1990 - 2021
Niamh O'Malley, 'Glasshouse' (2014)
