Ana Rutter

Preview 2 May 6-8pm

Exhibition open to 12 May

Wed to Sat, 12 - 5.30pm

In this new work, developed throughout the HGI programme, Rutter explores archetypal rural spaces where little, if nothing at all, happens over a period of time except for subtle changes in light and tone or occasional movements in the distance. These small moving studies have been filmed in high definition to provide a richness of image which resonates with the romantic tradition of landscape painting, whilst capturing the essence of our emotive response to this environment. The work explores the way we have come to understand this experience in an age defined by constant movement and transformation; and a notion of 'rural', that understands our landscape as ‘natural' not manmade over millennia.

Rutter's HGI Project History and Development

Ana Rutter has begun HGI with the intention of exploring the possibilities of a recent work being presented in a new context. This dual DVD projection arose from a process of experimentation with solid, built forms and film projection.

The piece involved two similar but not identical projections produced from the filming of cast wax pillows, heated from underneath, collapsing; this record of a process of destruction, this ‘life time’ of movement, was then compressed, reversed and cut at different points to produce an ‘animation’ of a process that is referential to an organic process. These ‘animations’ are built to fit recorded breathing patterns – not sleeping, but not physically active, such as moments of reflection, consideration.