Sunday 1st November - Monday 9th November

Gallery Open Thursday-Saturday 10am-3pm

Along the way culture, particularly visual culture, drifted and became content.

This content, characterised by short-ordered immediacy is not reliant on traditional notions of ‘quality’ or ‘meaning,’ it being delivered at scale, not necessarily generated mind to hand, always sensationalised. Are artists now content creators or have they always been creators of content whether this is for institutions such as the church, for the wants of politics or to fulfil ego demands. What can we be certain of; the ground on which we hope to build is unstable, marginal and unfit for development.

These collapsing boundaries, between human and machine, unravel our purpose and set us on a direction with little navigation, generating uncertainty, characterised by a loss of truth, a loss of privacy which sharpens our instinctive inquisitiveness and calls for participation, for craft, all of which is sustenance for creativity. As old structures collapse new opportunities emerge.

This exhibition pitches ceramic objects made by and for May Darbyshire's Kingdom of Imagined Animals. These set before Mark Darbyshire's collection of found images, also of animals.

Our purpose: acknowledging we are content whilst detaching ourselves from the poverty of image streaming. All in the hope content will find at least a modicum of contentment.