The Spaces Between
36 Lime Street Gallery and Studios,
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
Saturday 17th - Sunday 24thOctober
"...truth can neither be apprehended nor communicated...history is an art like all other sciences."
Cicely Wedgwood (1960), English Historian
The Spaces Between is a show of new, site-responsive drawing and paintings by the Newcastle based artist Iris Priest.
The work in the show seeks to establish a poetic archaeology of the space at 36 Lime Street, exploring its history and past incarnations, as recorded through the archives, newspaper stories and rumour.
By avoiding elevating or giving authority to any one of these sources, Priest attempts to distill a history which is at once factual, fantastical, personal and metaphorical. The work hints towards the presence of absence, and the presence of unknowable history.
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