10.02.2011
Phoenix Gallery
Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS

Free admission

11 February-20 March
Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 11.30am-5pm

This exhibition launches Edwina Ashton’s latest animated film, ...in a rose columned forest, commissioned by Phoenix Gallery and Animated Exeter in association with Animate Projects.

Infused with a distinctly British sensibility, where politeness lives cheek by jowl with eccentricity, this solo exhibition of work encompasses drawing, sculpture, video and performance.

Ashton conjures a darkly humorous world of stilted conversation and genteel misunderstanding, in which humans may interact with her misshapen insects and half realised creatures without batting an eyelid. Her eccentric concoctions of character and narrative serve to ridicule the rules that govern social interaction in a manner that is delicate and demented in equal measure. New works, including her latest animated film, are inspired by the life and studies of 19th century naturalist and theologian Phillip Gosse, and the marine life he studied in Devon’s rock pools.

Edwina Ashton is based in London and has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally most recently in Rude Britannia, at Tate Britain and at Works|Projects, Bristol.

There will be an Artist's Talk on Saturday 19 February, 2.30pm where Edwina will discuss the exhibition and her practice.

Supported by Animated Exeter and Animate Projects.

Films