Landscape Revisited
Joe Cornish & Kane Cunningham Curated by Jan Bee Brown
Saturday 1 Oct - Sunday 4 Dec 2011 Open: Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm (including bank holidays)
The Exhibition
The landscape of Yorkshire has always inspired artists, whether it’s the stunning familiar contours of Roseberry Topping or the controversial contemporary slant of Knipe Point, photographer Joe Cornish and artist Kane Cunningham continue this tradition.
Over the past two years they have worked with curator Jan Bee Brown to revisit the fabulous collection of landscape paintings held in store at Scarborough Art Gallery. Inspired by the work of Paul Marny, H. B. Carter, Atkinson Grimshaw and Ivon Hitchens, Kane and Joe will explore the context, tradition and future of landscape painting and photography in very different ways. Both artists spend hours in the landscape, in all weathers and in all seasons and so are eyewitnesses to events as they unfold. Responding to the landscape in real time the aim is to capture in a flick of a brush or the press of a button those fleeting moments that are ephemeral and transient.Come along and join the debate over photography as art and whether the subject of landscape is still relevant and meaningful in our digital and multimedia world.
