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Migration
is the result of the first joint bursary offered by Focal Point
Gallery and Norwich Arts Centre to artists in the Eastern Region.
Artists were asked to submit proposals for projects in photography
or new media on the theme of migration. Two artists were selected
to produce work for a joint show. The show brings together two
very different responses to the theme from artists living at
opposite ends of the region.
For
Terry Flower the work in the exhibition documents a personal
migration of 150 miles. It is the photographic document of a
journey he first made last year, when moving home from the East
Sussex coast to North Essex. Terry chose to re-travel the journey
by foot, allowing an intimacy with the changing landscape. During
the first part of the journey the landscape retrieved memories,
for the artist, that he was able to indulge before finally leaving
the past as he walked away. The latter part of the journey documents
new ground as the artist turns to the future.
Paul
Lambert has recorded the changing environment in the county of
Norfolk, where he has been living for the past five years. The
work looks at the vast new housing developments, built to facilitate
the migration of people out of the city, in areas, which were
previously green fields. It is an environment shaped by the culture
of car, where history and character are imported and repackaged.
The work records the impact of an imported community and a lifestyle
shaped by out-of-town shopping centres and commuting.
The
exhibition will be shown at Norwich Arts Centre in January 2002.
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