Red Creek – Exhibition/Porthmeor Studios

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Location

Porthmeor Studios, St Ives

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Dates

Fri 5th November, 2021 — Sun 7th November, 2021
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10:00 am |
Friday, Sat, Sunday 10.00am- 6pm

About this event

Photographs and sculpture from Frenchmans Creek.

Red Creek is a ‘pop-up’ exhibition of large scale photographs and sculptures engaged with environmental politics and poetics. Haunting photographic work by artist/environmentalist, Andy Hughes, comes together with a mysterious sculptural installation by Peggy Atherton in response to the site of Frenchman’s Creek, Cornwall.

Made famous by Daphne Du Maurier’s classic novel, Hughes uses infra-red photography techniques to create imaginary futuristic sci-fi interpretations of this well-loved secret location. Peggy Atherton responds to the site by extending its ‘creeping beauty’ by casting some of the rotting branches from the Creek and combining them with uncanny animal/ commodity assemblages.

Both artists explore ecologies, histories, fantasies and environmental politics. Each explores the poetics of waste matter, evolutionary themes of weaving together fairy-tale elements with contemporary critique and wry humour.

This exhibition has been scheduled to combine with the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26.

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the latest IPCC report was nothing less than “a code red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable”.

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