stone

Our cultural journey as human beings can be traced in stone, from the rock painting and portable figurines of the Palaeolithic, to the temples, shrines and sculpted gods of the classical world. With such a history, stone has inevitably become associated with figuration and the monumental, yet this exhibition offers other associations, as seven artists consider stone in its elemental, rawest form - a rawness that provides oblique allegories: for deep time, for resistance, for nurture, and for healing. 

Heft of stone is slung in fine silk, a photographic stillness contemplates the mutability of rock-face, a flint is cradled to skylark’s song, a monolith becomes personal touchstone, the relic of a rock-climb is ground to pigment, broken beach-stones are made whole with seams of gold.