Digital Lines:Ancient Words
A showcase exhibition by Bruce Rimell
Digital Lines: Ancient Words features stunning single edition digital prints on textiles produced by Bruce Rimell, illustrating a selection of mythological characters and episodes of from Mayan, Aztec and Inca Creation stories in a playful modern style.
Bruce explained, “This showcase is really a retrospective of my work over the last 2 years. I like to imagine that my pictures are portals – windows into another existence. If you go into a temple or church it is a portal into something ancient, other worldly and spiritual which is ever present in our brains. I want my work to let people access that.
I became fascinated by mythology and anthropology when I was about 16 and 17. I am a completely self taught artist.” Bruce instead gained a degree in Physics with Astrophysics before travelling extensively to study tribal cultures. Each picture depicts Bruce’s unique reading of ancient myths and beliefs.
“Zipacna’s Travels shows several episodes of the stories about the trickster demon of Mayan mythology in one piece. Redsky is a combination of ancient mythologies of the sky, which I have done as a circle as our view of the sky is circular from the earth. Andean people live so high in the mountains that the Milky Way is visible. They actually use dark clouds as constellations, rather than stars. Jaguar and the Fox are both important constellations. I liked the idea that patterns of darkness, rather than stars, are like light. The Fox is the entrance to the Land of the Ancestors, which is in the sky not underground (they have a Land of the Gods and a Land of the Ancestors, with no connotation of good or evil) hence Fox Mountain.”
You can see exhibition highlights here
Exhibition runs from 9th to 27th February 2009, Monday to Friday, 10.30am until 4pm.