Event overview
Public Reception 5.30 til 7pm Wednesday 9 February. Field Work is a co-commission by Autograph ABP, ArtSway, and Oriel Davies Gallery.
The photographs and digital video that make up Field Work are inspired by the idea of the artist as a 'stranger' exploring what Lewis describes as an ‘unknown site' to gather first-hand information and carry out a form of ethnographic research. In connecting the practices of ethnography and photography, Lewis is concerned with representing and understanding the social networks through which a sense of belonging to a particular place is achieved, and the project grew out of his time as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths. The sites that he has explored - the New Forest in Hampshire and Newtown and surrounding areas in mid-Wales - are linked through aspects of their respective rural locations, but also and through their ‘distance’ from Lewis’ hometown, south London. By analysing and contrasting these areas, interviewing residents, and documenting events such as local festivals and carnivals, Lewis attempts to evaluate ideas around belonging, identity and migration, all of which are viewed through his own eyes as a stranger and the model of an ‘impartial observer’.
Dave Lewis is a photographer and filmmaker who gained a BA Hons in Film and Photographic Arts from the Polytechnic of Central London in 1985. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Photo-ID, Norwich Forum 2009; ‘Hybridity’, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 2008; Anywhere But Here, Southwark Gallery 2008; AfterShock, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 2007.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 5 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 6 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 7 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 8 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 9 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 10 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 11 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 12 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 13 Feb 2011 | 11:45am | |
| 14 Feb 2011 | 11:45am |
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