Exposure

Andy Metcalf and Giles Perring

Location

Brighton CCA: Dorset Place
BN2 1ED

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Fisherman’s Quarter Gallery
BN1 1NBX

Dates & times

20th – 22nd April 2023

EXPOSURE is a collaboration between musician, sound artist and photographer Giles Perring and filmmaker and painter Andy Metcalf, carried out, principally, on the Isle of Jura in Scotland. EXPOSURE has toured over the last two summers, showing in the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Dunoon, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Brighton is its first exhibition in England.

This immersive, multi-dimensional work explores the brute nature of landscape, the vulnerability of human expression and the critical importance of sociality in shaping our creations. Born on the wild and beautiful Isle of Jura EXPOSURE harnesses a 20 minute film, painting, 35mm and medium format photography, text, sound installation and performance in order to depict the many facets of the uneasy experience of a human relationship with a harsh island environment – be that emotional, existential, ecological, or elemental.

EXPOSURE features the sounds of the newly launched, World Organ – a sound sculpture created by Giles Perring, located on the Isle of Jura. It is built to listen to, respond to and shape the sound of the landscape that surrounds it. This project will be on display at Dorset Place and at the Fishing Quarter Gallery.

Sound Art Brighton’s Kersten Glandien will be in conversation with musician, sound artist, and photographer Giles Perring as part of the EXPOSURE exhibition. They will discuss Giles Perring’s work, his Exchange project, his history with Echo City in the 1980s and his recent sound installation World Organ (2020) on the Isle of Jura.

EVENTS:

Film screening + Q&A:
Friday 21 April, 18.00
Brighton CCA: Dorset Place

Artist talk: Giles Perring and Kersten Glandien
Saturday 22 April, 12.00–14.00
Brighton CCA: Dorset Place

Film screening + Q&A:
Saturday 22 April, 2.30pm & 4.00pm
Brighton CCA: Dorset Place

Exhibition:
Thurs–Sunday 20–24 + 27–30 April (12:00-18:00)
Fisherman’s Quarter Gallery

This project is a partnership between Brighton CCA, Sound Art Brighton and Digital Music & Sound Arts, University of Brighton.

Andy Metcalf started in film with the Newsreel Collective, joining to work on the award-winning film: ‘True Romance Etc’. He has directed, produced and executive produced a wide variety of factual and drama productions for BBC TV and Channel 4. His pioneering TV work, is typified by ‘Welcome to the Spiv Economy’ [which Giles scored with Guy Evans], which was a centre piece of the London Barbican’s 2018 film season ‘The Television Will Be Revolutionised’. Andy started painting 30 years ago and then studied Fine Art at UEL. He has shown paintings at Crouch End Open Studios for 9 years. He showed his ‘School Days’ installation with Degrees of Freedom at St Augustine’s Tower in Hackney. He is an active member of the Turps painting community. Andy enjoys the challenges of collaborative, innovative work and will be starting on a new film this year. His video piece ‘Summertime’ can be seen on his website: andymetcalf.co.uk

Giles Perring is a musician, composer, educator and cross media artist. Raised in Cornwall, he lived and worked in London for 25 years before transferring to the Isle of Jura in Scotland. A founder of the music/sonic sculpture collective Echo City, he has continued to build sound and music based objects. He writes and composes music for film, tv and theatre, and has recorded and produced a number of acclaimed albums for a range of international artists in his studio on Jura. He constantly experiments with how media and creative approaches work together, utilising photography, digital tech, sound, music, text, film and performance to create works such as his long running series of live events ‘The Exchange’.