Hommage à Gaia includes paint, monoprint, compiled photographic images and compiled high resolution scans. It hints at a kind of contemporary archaeology, the salting down of ordinary objects by time and tide, alluding to the way we live from day to day. Among the themes are found hieroglyphics; objects from the museum of the ordinary; memory fading; and history from now — but there is also a hint of the environmental consequences of just throwing used plastic waste onto the ground or into the waters around us.
Nevill Wilson was born in Tynemouth in 1951 and currently lives in Amble. He studied at Teesside and Sheffield schools of art, the Royal Academy and Goldsmiths.
Peter Drew studied at Newport Art College and The Slade School of Fine Art. He received regular solo exhibitions at Galerie Swart in Amsterdam before moving to Mallorca. He has since returned to the UK and now lives in Northumberland. His work is in private collections in the UK, USA, Netherlands, Switzerland and Spain. His work in the exhibition is mostly made up of his collages, drawing on constructivist and Memphis design group influences.
