Flux 4mm Away
Fans of Flux, the acclaimed artistic collective formed by ceramists at Bradford School of Art fifteen years ago, can enjoy their continued creative journeys as they respond to different locations. Their most recent sojourn to Holy Trinity Church in Leeds City Centre where they presented a stunning exhibition, 4mm Away, from 7th to 18th July 2008, was one of a series of planned encounters. Watch this space for details of their next exhibition which will be created for the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth.
Featuring the work of ceramic artists Nick Gaunt, Martin Hearne, Dionne Hood, Rachel Lee, Rob Myers, Deborah Newbould, Elizabeth price, Laura Priestley, Larysa Szalapa, Katriona Skinner, Gill Smith and Mike Welsh, as they reacted to the space of the beautiful old church 4mm Away, was simply glorious! Work was placed inventively so that visitors happened upon it as they wander around the church. Wherever you looked – in the font, in pews, in the pulpit or even secreted in cracks in the floor – there was something else to discover and to wonder at.
Martin Hearne explained the significance of the exhibition title. “It refers to a discussion heard on a Radio 4 Melvyn Bragg programme, where they were discussing the nature of time and space. A cosmologist was telling of the possibility of parallel universes existing, and that one might be only 4mm away from us. Coming to this new venue in Leeds represented an alternative universe for Flux. This show is filled with little interventions that unfold subtly over time as you linger here, rather than imposing on the architectural splendour, although the work also has a discrete intensity. For my own contribution I made 30 to 40 symbol figures which are all squeezing into the space between pews. I am commenting about the empty spaces now as a minute congregation inhabits such a massive space. It is an ironic statement about an almost empty church and also a reminder of that lost world. The figures are an earth form and quite visceral.”