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Fireweed - Multimedia exhibition

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Fireweed - Multimedia exhibition

Time: September 10, 2010 at 11am to October 16, 2010 at 5pm
Location: EXHIBIT Gallery
Street: 20 Goswell Road
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: EXHIBIT Gallery
Latest Activity: Sep 18, 2010

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In the 8th exhibition of the SUPER ESTATE PROJECTS, artists Liz Davis, Clare Gerrard and Susanna Jacobs present work exploring different aspects of wild nature in the city.

Liz Davis’ work involves the passing of time, with two projects on past and future. In the fifty years the flora of the city has altered; Liz Davis’ first project sets out to find plants which exemplify these changes. These mounted specimens will become part of the Natural History Museum’s archive. Through painting and sculpture, Davis’ second project looks to the deep future when humans abandon the City, the Golden Lane Estate reverts to nature, and a new ecology emerges. The buildings are overgrown, Great Arthur House will be alive with birds, and the now manicured open spaces will become thickets within which wild animals will roam.

Drawn from field research carried out in the City, Clare Gerrard has made a document of a present day landscape of the City and Golden Lane. Since the Golden Lane Estate was built in 1958 the natural enviroment of the area has changed drastically. Once it was surrounded by bombsites and ruins and yet full of wildlife, plants and birds. Now wildlife survives temporaily before it is routinely cleared from the streets and parks or sites as they are developed. The is a record of wild plants and flowers found growing in the City today.

Susanna Jacobs is showing an installation of drawing and animation. The austere simplicity of the architecture of Golden Lane Estate is seen as a group of stage sets where the drama of the past canc be re-imagined. The estate becomes wilderness, and nature is resurgent in scenes reminiscent not just of the overgrwon ruins of the Blitz, but also of the primitive landscape of prehistoric London.

*FIREWEED (rosebay willow herb/epilobium angustifolium), A plant that grew on the bomb site that became Golden Lane Estate, it is known as a flower that grows easily on earth that has been burnt.

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