This exhibition – a collection of works by artists based in or having worked together in the north of England – explores notions of home through everyday life and narrative. Audio and text based work, sculpture, paintings, drawings, photographs and video all ask the question: what does it means to live in the places we do and interact with the world around us?

This dialogue concerning the real and ephemeral, the physical and spiritual may provide answers to life or provoke new questions!

Amelia Crouch’s work focuses on the ability of words to evoke other senses and call up myriad associations. It attempts to tap into what might be called a ‘collective cultural imagery’ – the associations and mental images that people carry with them already, that they have absorbed from the world around them.

Eva Mileusnic’s installation ‘Presence’ consists of a ‘family’ group of six white plaster cast prayer books and prayer kneelers set on raw steel stands. Having toured a number of churches and cathedrals this evocative piece suggests an ephemeral human presence through human absence.

Do you live on Paradise Street? Prue Dixon’s book project has invited people who live on Paradise Street to say what it’s like living on Paradise Street and what their idea of paradise is. 

Phill Hopkins writes about his piece: ‘place’ “Perhaps the piece explores themes around hiding or revealing, above or below, inside or outside, muffled or protected. It’s made with packing blankets, which form a ‘plane’ on the floor of the space, interrupted with the covering or insertion of small blank houses under the blankets. Above this a single blank house is suspended or hangs. 

The house motif is brought into a topography where it can stand alone or alongside others, uniting ideas, but also suggesting a struggle of hierarchy - perhaps the paradox of knowing verses unknowing or balance verses toppling over.”

We are pleased to welcome to such a diverse and interesting group of artists and thank them for the loan of their work to Greenbelt. 

Opening times:

Friday 6pm – 8 pm 

Friday 9pm Private View

Saturday 10am – 8pm

Sunday 12pm – 8pm

Monday 10am – 6pm 

Helen Wood 

Prue Dixon

Image: Phill Hopkins 'place'