COLLIDER Part 4
A Reprise (The End)
Friday 25th March 2022
Airspace Gallery
4 Broad Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 4HL
COLLIDER Part 4
A Reprise (The End)
6 - 8 pm
Friday 25th March
Airspace Gallery
4 Broad Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 4HL
Exhibition continues until 10th Aprll
HEAR THE OAKS SING FOR THE LAST TIME
COLLIDER Part 4 is the final chapter of HARRY ADAMS' Collider series, an extensive exhibition of brand new 'screen paintings' - a mixture of painting and screen printing - enveloping a grove of maturing oak saplings, nurtured with care over the last 4 years by the artist, and returning triumphantly to the scene of their first tentative steps into the real world.
In 2018's Nothing Remains Unchanged But The Clouds, Harry Adams exhibited those formative oaks as escapees from the painterly landscapes - an adversarial provocation to the traditional artform. Here, they return, boldly, in a coming-of-age, to stake their own place, in their own right, before being released into the wild.
From that first happening with us in 2018, through three exhibitions (IRL and online), and a publication, despite an unexpected and ongoing global pandemic, this completion of the Collider life cycle - subtitled A Reprise (The End), is a fitting metaphor for our times. The trees will continue to grow, and thrive. We will continue to grow, and thrive.
At the end, is anything ever really the end?
More information on the AirSpace Gallery website
https://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/2020/project_entry/collider_part_4
