Katherine Tulloh
dal 28/10/2010 al 20/11/2010
Segnalato da
28/10/2010
Katherine Tulloh
Transition Gallery, London
The artist draws her inspiration from the alchemical illustrations and the dream journals of Emanuel Swedenborg: an animated film and a series of paintings which create a further realm of snakes, lions, small birds, palaces...
Having previously explored the literary cityscapes of Poe and Baudelaire, Katherine Tulloh now draws her inspiration from the alchemical illustrations and the dream journals of Emanuel Swedenborg.
During a period living in London in 1744 Swedenborg underwent a spiritual crisis that transformed him from a respected natural scientist and engineer into a man who conversed with angels and analysed the structure of heaven. All the time attempting to preserve the intellectual rigour of his early training, he became convinced of the existence of an 'ultra-terrestrial' London - a place where spirits continued the lives they'd lived on earth. Swedenborg's beautiful, enigmatic notes and dream diaries create a language which speaks to the eyes of the mind, elaborating a personal mythology.
Exploring these two worlds of symbols, which both enclose a tension between scientific endeavour and mystical voyaging, Tulloh has made an animated film and a series of paintings which create a further realm of signs composed of glowing orbs of colour, snakes, lions, small birds, palaces, cities, vital organs and men and women reduced to spectral, capillary essences. The film was made in an extended reverie of improvisatory creation – she constructs and mutates sets and projections, photographing them and animating the resulting images into a fluid, hallucinatory stream, loosely soundtracked with excerpts from Swedenborg's writings and bursts of electro-acoustic sound. The paintings, on paper in vivid watercolour inks, are meticulous and luminous, and, together with the film, refuse meaning and celebrate the enigmatic resonance of the poetic sign.
Katherine Tulloh studied at Cambridge University and Chelsea College of Art. Through painting and the creation of three-dimensional montages which she lights and films she creates fragmented animated narratives exploring the poetic languages of writers such as Poe and Baudelaire. Previous exhibitions include Horn of Plenty, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London; Sehnsucht, James Taylor Gallery, London and Think Wonder, Wonder and Think, Museum of Childhood, London.
Private view: Fri 29 Oct 6-9pm
Transition Gallery
8 Andrews Road - London
Gallery open Fri-Sun 12-6pm