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Curator's Background to the Exhibition
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This exhibition provides a new way of seeing. Since the earliest times we have responded to the power that rock and stone has over us. Artists have given visual expression to our fascination with stone. In all its forms, from mountains to jewels, rock is used to symbolize the most profound ideas: faith, love, death, eternity, new worlds, magic and myth. This exhibition is about the power of stone to move us.
The show includes a wide range of pictures, sculptures and objects, together with rock specimens and pigments. Examples explore the similarities and differences between faiths and cultures, from pre-history to the present day. Keystones introduce each section of the exhibition. These symbolise some of the artistic and geological ideas that underlie each section and they can be touched.
The exhibition is divided into six sections: The Fundamental Landscape; Travel and Exploration; Metamorphosis; Studying the Rockface; Prayer and Meditation and Memory, Myth and Meaning
In addition to this teachers pack, an illustrated book is available featuring 50 of the works of art in the show.
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| Art at the Rockface is funded by Emsée Fairbairn Foundation's Regional Museums Initiative which aims to enable museums to develop important and engaging exhibition programmes. |
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The exhibition can be seen at:
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery 22 May - 3 September 2006
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield 23 September 2006 - 7 January 2007
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