This
group exhibition brings together a diverse range of work from
artists working in and around Essex.
What
all these artists have in common are the experience of returning
or relocating to Essex. The work in this show does not look
at other people’s perceptions of Essex or try to break
down the stereotypes that have come so much to represent Essex
as a place. Instead all of the work, in one way or another,
explores the individual’s relationship with their environment,
by either examining how memories, landscape, fact and fiction
come to form a personal sense of place, or by directly looking
at the impact of human presence in our surroundings.
The
work in Day Return shows us that a place is subjective, one
location can mean many different things to different people,
a combination of memories and recounted stories, constantly
shifting as stories are retold, memories re-enacted and futures
pondered, all of this coming together to form our own personal
geography.
With
thanks to Wig Sayell for the original exhibition concept, Kelvedon
Secret Nuclear Bunker, Stephen Haddock for stock images for
tests for ‘Ocean View’.
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