Elsewhere is here
‘Elsewhere is here : Anderswo ist hier’, is a pair of exhibitions showing new contemporary works diversely created in the twin cities of Hannover and Bristol.
10 artists in response to the European legacy of Twinning met for the first time in July 2018 for an exhibition at the TURBA gallery in Hannover with the aim of exploring the nature and culture of place, proximity, self and other. The second part of the exchange resulted in a show in Bristol in March 2019.
Inside looking out: Embracing the random links and connections that can be made through social media, I have collected images of windows from people in both Bristol and Hannover. I have been thinking about how we explore the world through our devices and most of these images have been shared with me through my phone. I experimented with painting on both sides of mylar to achieve a kind of glow and created the paintings so that they are the same proportions as my phone screen, with the shiny plastic surface also mimicking that of a screen. You can't necessarily tell which images are from Bristol and which are from Hannover, but small architectural details might give some clues.
