Former Exhibitions

Former Exhibitions

‘Mud, blood and Freedom’ by Anna C Roebuck  (September – December 2011) 

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The Gallery is currently home to an exhibition of  Anna C Roebuck’s degree work. It may at first seem far removed from Bags2riches, Anna’s commercial work but is linked by her interest in environmental issues and using recycled materials. Her degree work explored the inter relationship between manmade objects and nature. She was (and still is) fascinated by the effects of erosion, weathering and decay on man’s interventions. The manmade and the natural were also symbols for the two sides of her personality; sometimes wild and free, at other times constrained by her own fears and perceived pressure to conform.

Much of the work at the time of her degree was installation based using mud, blood, found charcoal and found objects to explore these topics. Faux experiments were carried out; found objects were put together celebrating the beauty of their deteriorated forms; rooms were spaces to be inhabited and overtaken by nature.

The work on show here, explores the ideas or recordings of these events.