Echoes of Other Worlds

28 October - 28 November 2010

Sculpture, video and paintings by a group of young artists, musicians and scientists present recent work that explores diverse ideas. The show has no set theme, but uses the title as a starting point to explore links between different worlds; in particular the worlds of the artist, scientist and musician. Ideas of the representation of nature, how to understand ideas of truths and fictions are common questions in each of these areas of study and have been of interest to artists since the Renaissance. This exhibition presents different ways of seeing the world around us.

How artists relate to the ‘other world-view’ of science is explored by Samuel Zealey, who recently appeared on BBC2’s show ‘School of Saatchi.’ For Echoes of Other Worlds, Sam presents his work ‘Homage to Science Year 10’ which is a playful take on the wonder of science experienced during high school classes.

‘To the last syllable of recorded time’ is a surround sound installation retelling the music and poetry of Oumar Konyate, last of a long line of griots from Guinea, West Africa. The project explores the relationship between ethnicity, identity and environment, through the transformation of Oumar’s music by UK based sound artists Jake Garber and Tim Bamber and is presented with a video by Ronit Meranda.

Dr Stephen Hicks is a Research Fellow in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. For Echoes of Other Worlds he presents two projects exploring the nature of vision. Using human eye tracking he demonstrates how a viewer attends to a scene and how this exposes the unconscious gaps in our visual consciousness. In an autonomous simulation he invitesthe viewer to compare human sight to a robotic analogue of vision that uses simple detection principles to guide its virtual "Eye" around an open space.

Visit the grounds to find the army of terracotta cats, created by gallery staff, volunteers and younger members of after school art clubs.