Night: A Time Between, opening on March 22 2008, is a somnambulant exploration into the nocturnal realm, through the work of historical, contemporary and new artists.
Artwork created from the 17th century to the present day including installations, photography, painting, illustration, and film, will be united under their common theme of delving into the human association with night-time.
And for the first time, the gallery is offering the public a chance to take part, in a partnership with the University of the West of England, by sending in their own thoughts, artworks, poetry or photographs to be shown on the RWA website during the exhibition.
Visitors’ contributions will be collected alongside historical works from the Royal Scottish Academy, The Holburne Museum in Bath, and private collections, placed in the context of contemporary artists’ depictions of neon-lit megalopolis, romantic night landscapes and the film-noir, dangerous, hidden underworlds of the dark.
“This is a wonderful opportunity to see works that have never previously been seen together,” commented exhibition curator Janette Kerr. “All the artists in the show have a persistent pre-occupation – if not obsession – with night. Thir work echoes a strong tradition of night imagery in western art.”
The exhibition demonstrates that the night means far more than the mere absence of light to many people; the nocturnal, the insomniacs, the subculture of night-revellers, find it a lonely world of isolation, a time of magic and adventure, of illicit thrills, and dark, monochrome beauty.
To take part in the exhibition (March 22 to May 11 2008), send in your works to
rwa_night@hotmail.com.
