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BETH PINNER
BETH PINNER
ABOUT
“Imagine a land of stone, a silent land except for the rains and winds that swept across it. For there was no living voice and no living thing moved over the surface of the rocks.” Rachel Carson – The Sea Around Us.
Using print and sculptural installation to present the known as unfamiliar, my work focuses on geological textures and details in the coastal landscape, distorting imagery through cropping and layering and removing indications of scale and context to provide obscure and ‘otherworldly’ imagery.
In this geological period of time labelled the ‘anthropocene’, human activity is considered to be the dominant influence on the climate and environment, untamed landscapes are less and less in our culture that cultivates the land, mines it, quarries it, and builds upon it. But there is intrigue in the landscape that forms itself, nature sculpts and shapes her appearance, the raw and exposed textures of the coastal landscape provide an environment that could only have been formed as a result of pure natural force, geological turbulence acting over time.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
May 2017 – BA Fine Arts Degree Show, Woodlane, Falmouth UK
September – November 2016 - Press Gang, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth UK
September 2016 – SWITCH – Porthmeor Studios, ST Ives UK
March 2016 – THREE – Woodlane, Falmouth UK
May 2015 – Exhibition 1 – Woodlane, Falmouth UK
EDUCATION
2014 - 2017 - BA(Hons) Fine Art, Falmouth University
2013 - 2014 - Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Alton College
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