MATERIAL EARTH: MYTH, MATERIAL AND METAMORPHOSIS
Saturday 10 February – Monday 2 April 2018
“Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
— Aesop’s Fables
'The wild Northern territories of Europe have fascinated artists, writers and philosophers for centuries. The revival of interest in these tumultuous, challenging landscapes occurred during the 19th century, with the great Romantics such as William Morris, William Blake and Lord Byron. Showcasing a range of artists who work with the mythology and stories of metamorphoses from Northern. Europe, this exhibition will be an ode to all those that are magical, fantastical and ever-changing. Material Earth II will draw on the animals and moral compasses of ancient Greek and Roman fables, the Scandinavian and Germanic fairytales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson as well as the archaic Paganism of European cultures, inextricably bound to Messums’ location so proximal to sites such as Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral.'
Exhibiting artists include; Malene Hartmann Rasmussen, Christie Brown, Barnaby Barford, Bertozzi and Casoni, Katie Spragg, Claire Curneen, Kate Malone, Lena Peters, Sam Bakewell, Grayson Perry, Polly Morgan, Alastair Mackie, Bouke de Vries, Kate MccGwire, Ann Carrington, Charlotte Cory and Wolfe von Lenkiewicz.
MATERIAL EARTH: MYTH, MATERIAL AND METAMORPHOSIS
Messums Wiltshire | Place Farm, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW
10 February – 2 April 2018
Sissure (Ommateum), 2016, Kate MccGwire