Strange Worlds

Strange Worlds takes you into the imagined landscapes of a group of emerging contemporary artists. Although strikingly set apart by their subject matter and stylistic approach these bodies of work vividly juxtapose the familiar with a sense of isolation. The artists take aspects from the recognisable world and transform them into something decidedly other.

Jemma Appleby
The ‘Holon’ series is inspired by the Israeli design museum by Ron Arad. Elements of the structure are heightened in order to allow the landscape to become the architecture in a harmony of physical impossibility.

Flora Bradwell
The desire to playfully rub a fictional reality up against the everyday drives Flora’s practice. This series follows the last survivors of a fictional circus dynasty The Infamous Pyramid Gang as they go about their daily lives.

Hatty Morris
This series of Digital images finds its inspiration from a research trip Hatty made to Namibia in 2011. Tangible bulks of baboon juxtapose with digitally altered backgrounds to create a world where nothing is quite as it seems. The humour and absurdity in the way we as animals are physically put together inspires Hatty’s practice.

Lucy Smallbone
Lucy’s paintings move between depicting both an ideal and uninhabitable place. The landscapes seem as though they are in a state of flux, an embryonic state that has not fully formed allowing for a fluid painterly reality to come to the fore.