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ARTISTIC PATHS THROUGH THE LANDSCAPE AT NORWICH ARTS CENTRE
By Narelle Doe 27/11/2007
A picture of a painting made up of horizontal and vertical coloured lines.

© Chris Loukes

Norwich Arts Centre is currently presenting an intriguing double exhibition, Tracing A Path, which runs until 22 December 2007.

The show features the work of Renata Grant and Chris Loukes who have taken differring artistic journeys as they explore our unique routes through the landscape.

In a collaborative project made with her eight-year-old son, Renata Grant traces a path ‘…to see how far it is’ and examines our human presence in the landscape about us.

© Renata Grant

A photograph of a quiet country lane and hedge with a traffic sign.

She explains: “When asked where he was going, (in the hope that one could accompany him), my grandfather would reply: ‘There and back to see how far it is.’ An answer I found equally thrilling in its precepts of adventure but also disappointing, as it was understood that that phrase meant one couldn’t go. Now, I am giving myself permission to go, just to see how far it is.”

Her work evokes organic feelings of chance and curiosity and the notion of travelling through literal space yet also historical and personal places.

Chris Loukes' take on this theme sees him present ‘Street Zen – a meditative view of city spaces’. This work features a series of “moving painting” video works and printed stills that explore the relationship between the documentary video image and layers of animated lines.

A photograph through a glass window of a rainy sky above electricity pylons.

© Renata Grant

The video images are taken from journeys by train, car or the movement of the eye around the city. Lines divide up the picture space to emphasis the movement of time in the film.

He explains: "In each of these pieces I made a video of a city space, edited it and built up the layers of line and then replaced the pictorial image with a white layer. In this way I was able to explore the language of the line itself.”

“It has become the whole image thus enabling me to use different colours, weights and angles. The rhythms that have been created need no emphasis from extra lines to signify clock time."

The two artists may have approached the question of journeying through the landscape in different ways, but at the heart of both their works lies the same human experience of the world that surrounds us - and how we encounter it and travel across it in our daily lives.

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