Before it Melts into Solid @ World of Glass, St. Helens
30 June - 26 July 2022
The Climate Crisis is like molten glass. After the glowing glass comes out of the furnace, there is a narrow window of time to shape it as it cools at a rate of 10°C per second. That is the time for the glassblower to act, when change and transformation can happen before possibility turns solid. This is the kind of ecological time we find ourselves in; an urgent moment to act before the damage of climate change becomes irreversible. From the thematic exhibition space of World of Glass Museum, the artists here use images to present this urgency as a space for action, where individual change can shape sustainable futures.
In this exhibition, new visual narratives are constructed from fragments of the St Helens and the North-West of England’s industrial pasts. The accumulation of archival imagery of industrial machinery, transport, and architecture gathered by Andrew Broadey, and the visual legacy of St Helen’s coal mining collected by local photographer Kevin Crooks are both rearranged into montages that propose new connections. Their work speculates how photographic montage can help us initiate ecological futures from fragments of our past.
Carmel College students use photography to show us how the vast and often overwhelming theme of climate change can be located in their tangible contexts. Looking at landscapes, communities, animals and memory, their visual stories help us access these complex realities by closing the gap between ecological data and lived experience. The student’s work is a response to the work by the two accompanying artists Andrew Broadey and Kevin Crooks. This collaboration was initiated from a workshop during Open Eye Gallery’s Climate Lab, the research stage in preparation for LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate.
The exhibition is open Monday – Saturday, 10AM – 5PM at World of Glass, St. Helen’s. For more details, click here.
Image: Kevin Crooks part of The Legacy of the Production of Energy, 2022.
The Climate Crisis is like molten glass. After the glowing glass comes out of the furnace, there is a narrow window of time to shape it as it cools at a rate of 10°C per second. That is the time for the glassblower to act, when change and transformation can happen before possibility turns solid. This is the kind of ecological time we find ourselves in; an urgent moment to act before the damage of climate change becomes irreversible. From the thematic exhibition space of World of Glass Museum, the artists here use images to present this urgency as a space for action, where individual change can shape sustainable futures.
In this exhibition, new visual narratives are constructed from fragments of the St Helens and the North-West of England’s industrial pasts. The accumulation of archival imagery of industrial machinery, transport, and architecture gathered by Andrew Broadey, and the visual legacy of St Helen’s coal mining collected by local photographer Kevin Crooks are both rearranged into montages that propose new connections. Their work speculates how photographic montage can help us initiate ecological futures from fragments of our past.
Carmel College students use photography to show us how the vast and often overwhelming theme of climate change can be located in their tangible contexts. Looking at landscapes, communities, animals and memory, their visual stories help us access these complex realities by closing the gap between ecological data and lived experience. The student’s work is a response to the work by the two accompanying artists Andrew Broadey and Kevin Crooks. This collaboration was initiated from a workshop during Open Eye Gallery’s Climate Lab, the research stage in preparation for LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate.
The exhibition is open Monday – Saturday, 10AM – 5PM at World of Glass, St. Helen’s. For more details, click here.
Image: Kevin Crooks part of The Legacy of the Production of Energy, 2022.
