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24/11/2003

Jem Southam

Pump House Gallery, London

The Shape of Time: Rockfalls, Rivermouths & Ponds

This is the first London showing of this exhibition of an extraordinary body of work that resulted in Jem Southam being nominated for the Citibank Prize in 2001 and brings together three distinct series of photographs under one title, The Shape of Time.

Using a 10''x 8'' plate camera to record three categories of geographical locations - rock falls from tidal cliff faces, river and estuary mouths and landlocked ponds - Southam has worked along the south coast of England from his home in Exeter for over ten years on this project. He often returned to the same place repeatedly over significant periods of time to re-photograph the same feature. Creating these series he draws the viewer into comparing images to discover the changes through time captured by his camera.

Each of the locations can be characterised as places of interaction: liquid and solid, of vertical and horizontal movement and between linear and smooth space. His photographs capture places of change where the instability of the landscape and potential for catastrophe are made present in the sense of foreboding carried in these eloquent images.

Jem Southam graduated from the London College of printing in 1972, he worked as a designer an photographer at the Arnolfini from 1976-1982 before taking up a post at Falmouth College of Art. He is now Head of Photography at Exeter School of Art and Design. Southam's work has developed through five main series focusing on the South West of England - Bristol City Docks (1977-82), Paintings of West Cornwall (1982-86), The Red River (1982 - 87), The Raft of Carrots (1992).

A Towner Art Gallery/Photoworks touring exhibition funded by Arts Council England

The Shape of Time FREE GALLERY TALK Sunday 11 January 2pm
Matthew Rowe, curator of the Towner Art Gallery, will give a short, informal talk about the exhibition.

Sunday Drop-in Family Workshops Sundays 29 November / 25 January / 29 February 1.30-3.30pm
These fun artist-led sessions take place on the last Sunday of each month and develop creative ideas from works in the current exhibition. Suitable for children aged 3 upwards. All children must be accompanied by an adult. £1 donation per child

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Next at the Pump House Gallery:

MULITSTOREY 4 February - 21 March 2004
The unusual structure of the Pump House Gallery's four-storey exhibition space provides the focus for this exhibition, the artworks presenting visual commentaries on the multi-layered architecture of the building in which they are temporarily housed.

Elise Ferguson's intricate gouache paintings of patterned parquet flooring describe virtual expanses of architectural interiors, whilst her precariously balanced house-of-cards highlights the vulnerabilities of ambitious construction and the fragility of modern life. Anna Hutton's site-specific artworks explore the transient spaces of buildings. Drawing over walls, floors and other surfaces with coloured adhesive tape, her complex installations realign our experience of existing built environments asking the viewer to consider even the most insignificant of spaces.

With the heroic energy and aspirational creativity of a dubious DIY enthusiast, Mark Pearson builds brutal physical structures that challenge the apparent limits of their craftsmanship. In contrast, Chloë Steele's delicate drawings and simplified sculptures of modernist tower blocks both contradict and celebrate the vast scale of the actual buildings, whilst observing the formal subtleties of the architecture they represent.

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Image: Jem Southam - Whale Chine - 1997

Opening on Tuesday 25 November 6 to 8pm

For further information or images call Hilary or David on 020 7350 0523

Pump House Gallery Battersea Park London SW11 4NJ
t 020 7350 0523
Open Wed - Sun 11am-5pm (Sat 11am -4pm) Closed Mon/Tues
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