Slowly but Surely by Gemma Moore
Hanter Hill by Adrienne Craddock
Timeless by Rebecca Reynolds
Sylvan Symphony by Charles Sainsbury-Plaice
Matthew Wood
RidgeBank Contemporary Art Space
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How do you describe your Gallery?:
RidgeBank is a new contemporary art space in the heart of Kington. The aim of the renovation of the former Kington and Radnorshire Bank was to breathe life into an empty high street building and positively contribute to the existing vibrant creative community within the town.
Do you specialise in any particular artform or craft?:
Contemporary Art
What's important to you when you choose whose work to exhibit and sell?:
RideBank's programme of exhibitions and events will endeavour to engage with the rural. We will be supporting contemporary artists who are either based locally or who's work engages with the surrounding landscape, people and places in some way.
What's coming up this year?:
Hogback Hills
The picturesque Hogback Hills above Kington are Pre-Cambrian volcanoes and the oldest rocks in Wales. This group show, featuring new work by the artists involved, aims to reveal and illuminate the extraordinary geological, ecological and human story of Hanter Hill, Worsell Wood and Stanner Rocks.
Artsist's talks and events will take place throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Your notable exhibitions in the last few years:
Fruiting Bodies
This exhibition featured twelve contemporary artists from Kington and the surrounding area who were invited to ruminate upon and respond to the appearance of Serpulas Lacrymans in the corner of this newly renovated gallery space. Roughly translating as creeping tears, this growth is more commonly known as dry rot.
The title of this show is taken from the form in which the dry rot first revealed itself. The initial horror of what that first fruiting body represented soon gave way to a strange friendship and fascination with all things mushroomy and myceliumy. Fungi are far more complex friends than we imagine. Closer to animals than plants, they also live in symbiosis with humans and bacteria. This multispecies entanglement represents how diversity and difference are essential requirements for the possibility of life.
Taking Fruiting Bodies as their starting point, this group of artists work embodied ecological entanglement, diversity, equality and magic.
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