REBECCA MARR
FROM NORTHERN SKIES
AND SHORES

The exhibition

REBECCA MARR
FROM NORTHERN SKIES
AND SHORES

25 October – 5 December 2009

SEAWEED GARDEN

Ascophyllum nodosum, laminaria digitata
Knotted wrack and Tangle seaweed: Rebecca Marr chose these and other ocean plants she collected on the coasts of Orkney – mostly unfamiliar to land dwellers – as subjects of the series Seaweed Garden. She presents photograms as a contemporary examination of this traditional photographic technique and shows reverence to the British botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799 – 1871).

CLOUDLANDS
Rebecca Marr with poet Valerie Gillies

Cirrus spisatus, cumulonimbus
Clouds over the Orkney Islands: wisplike strands, puffy or also ominous.
Rebecca Marr directs her camera skyward and documents the cloud formations with patience and scientific meticulousness. The series Cloudlands is a respectful homage to the British meteorologist Luke Howard (1772 – 1864), who gave the clouds their names, as well as a new interpretation of the subject matter through the hand painted poems added to the photographs by Valerie Gillies.

Both projects are an attempt to understand nature as it is and also a search for the metaphysical dimension beneath its manifold manifestations.

• Contact

Exhibition opening
Saturday 24^th October 2009 at 5 pm
bildkultur | galerie, Markelstr. 19, 70193 Stuttgart


Introduction
Dr. Matthias Bullinger
bildkultur Stuttgart

Poetry recital
Barbara Stoll

The exhibition is on view
Sunday 25^th October – Saturday 5^th December 2009


Gallery hours
Monday and Wednesday 5 pm – 7 pm
and on appointment

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Images: Courtesy the artist and inchmore gallery, Inverness, Scotland