SITES

Nik Strangelove
Showing 9 Jan - 27 March

Nik Strangelove's first solo show at the Royal Cornwall Museum is a collection of colour photographs that document a variety of interesting man-made structures throughout Cornwall.

The project covered hundreds of miles over five years. The sites chosen for the exhibtion were selected on a purely personal basis and form an ecelctic mix of the well known (Tate St Ives, Eden Project) and the more unusual (Air Traffic Control Beacon, Lloyds Signal Station). 

Many of the sites are in plain view of the public, but never fully appreciated. Nik wanted to create a series of captivating images that draw people into the worlds of photography, architecture and engineering. The aim is to give people a greater appreciation and awareness of these wonders, while allowing them to appreciate the aesthetic qualitiies of the man-made world around them. These powerful, abstract and sometimes surreal images attain a visual impact far beyond their utilitarian form and function.

       "Nik Strangelove's exhibition takes familiar places or landmarks and frames them in such a way that the image captures the essence of the subject. TIme and time again, I wonder why I like the work which at first suggests the ordinary, but it is the lack of gimmickry and the talent for framing that transforms it and as such it is an object lesson to any would be artist trying to understand what 'less is more' means.

     " Nik Strangelove has the art of the visual ache to a T. Pared down, powerful and haunting., he demonstrates a maturity and perception that only the love of your art can give. I commend this collection of works and ask only that you look at it, really look at it, and think for a moment that the basis of all science is the art of observation and to savour it takes time, which in this slower world we have aplenty!"           Tim Smit, Eden Project.

 

Nik will be giving a talk on his work and the techniques he employs on January 28 for details click here