FRESH #4 - Corroded Between

An exhibition featuring recent graduates of Bristol UWE

As part of our FRESH programme of postgraduate opportunities, we are pleased to present an exhibition by a group of recent graduates from The University of the West of England.

Corroded Between features works by Alice Farrington, Beth Towers, Harry Judge, Hannah Hornby and Simone Marconi, presenting photography, painting, sculpture and sound. The exhibition delves into stories about land and place, demarcation and belonging, explored through shape and structure.

Harry Judge expands on these ideas in his paintings through expressive brush strokes picturing industrial and urban settings. Hannah Hornby and Simone Marconi’s audio components consist of water as sound waves become a mode for storytelling. As Hannah’s work follows Venice’s relationship with its canals and more recent climate crisis, whilst Simone based his sculptures of a fictional poetic tale where the protagonist chooses to no longer adhere to social patterns and decides to escape into a ‘Negative Dot’. Beth Towers extracts shapes from an array of different places, from homes to mountainous landscapes which have become abstract and reduced in the form of an industrial plain material. Alice Farrington’s black and white analogue photographs show how bodies are relocated in space, creating a hazy, eerie atmosphere. In these images the body appears blurred in motion and form and landscape connect in that very split second the image is taken.

Throughout all the works an observation of societal patterns is communicated, from Venice’s rising sea levels to shifting urbanisation. The works pinpoint moments where things are changing and possibly altering, corroding and leaning together. Patterns are growing, depleting and shifting, there is an uncertainty reflecting in the abstract nature.

Organised by Hannah Hornby

Exhibition Opening:

27th September 17:00 - 20:00

Opening Times

Friday 27th September 2024

Saturday 28th September 2024

Sunday 29th September 2024

Open 11am – 5pm

Where to find us

This event is at 571 Oxford Road, Reading. Public transport is available from Reading town center and Reading station if you are visiting from elsewhere.