OSTARA

EXHIBITION DATES : Online from 12/3 – 28/4/23

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INTRODUCTION :

‘Ostara’ is the fifth in an evolving series of Anima Mundi online mixed exhibitions following this rhythm of the seasons, known as ‘the wheel of the year’. This ‘calendar’ provides a cue for the duration of each show, and inevitably flavours the selection of works presented.

In many traditions, time is considered to be cyclical rather than straight line. Perceived as a perpetual cycle of growth and retreat tied to the Sun’s annual death and rebirth. This cycle is also viewed as a micro and macrocosm of broader life cycles in an immeasurable series of rotations composing the Universe. The days that fall on the landmarks of the yearly cycle traditionally mark the beginnings and middle-points of the four seasons.

The exhibition includes artworks by (in order of appearance) :

Danny Fox, Simon Averill, Miles Cleveland Goodwin, Sax Impey, Alban Roinard, Paul Benney, Marcelle Hanselaar, Rebecca Harper, Katie Sims, Luke Hannam, Arthur Lanyon, Jim Carter, Jackson Whitefield, Peter Randall-Page, Jamie Mills, Kate Clark, Simon Hitchens, Eleanor Faye Woods, Sam Lock, David Kim Whittaker, Laurence Edwards, Mat Chivers, Joy Wolfenden Brown, Carlos Zapata, Andy Harper, Luke Frost, Gabrielle K Brown, Andrew Litten, Luke Routledge, Tim Shaw, Didier Hamey, Dorcas Casey, Andrew Hardwick, Judith Nangala Crispin.

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“And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won’t be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.”

— Hermann Hesse