Calls to Mind is a conversation between two artists who live in opposite hemispheres in seaside towns on southern coasts. The exhibition aims to explore ways in which we relate through art to experiences of home, family, personal migrations and the spaces between memory, imagination and projection.
Calls to Mind is a conversation between two artists who each live on southern coasts in seaside towns in two different hemispheres. The exhibition aims to explore ways in which we relate through art to experiences of home, family and place; personal migrations and the spaces between memory, imagination and projection.
Fanie Buys grew up in a small holiday town in South Africa. His paintings merge memories from his own life with the imagined histories of holiday makers who descended on his home town during the “season”. They are reminiscent of happy family snapshots, the scenes and poses in them are familiar, comforting and evocative, their small scale emphasising the sense of fleeting moments captured. Tension in the work is found between the seemingly joyful scenes ad their enigmatic literary titles.
Calum-Louis Adams moved to the seaside town of Brighton from a small town in the "Midlands". Their work cuts across Sculpture, Print and Photogrophy and delves into the nature of memory and the blurring of lines between place and places. Adams is also interested in the commodification of loved ones and grief, often creating site-specific sculptures as a response to the conflicting emotions that art spaces provoke for the Artist.