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John Holloway : Traces
31st May - 11th June, 2005
Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm.
Admission Free.
"John Holloway's fine black and white landscapes dramatically reveal the bones of the "gentle" South Downs in a series of wonderfully abstract images". Fay Godwin
John Holloway began his work on the chalk downland areas of southern England in 1978 and has worked consistently in the same area for twenty-five years. He works from a high vantage point, looking down onto the land, often from a light aircraft to see his subject in low relief. He examines pathways, the tracks and traces of animals, fences, furrows, rivers and dew-ponds, as well as the effects of farming, archaeological remains and the ancient Hill Figures cut into the undulating and interlocking forms of the South Downs. Sometimes Holloway is travelling at 80 miles an hour at 1,500' in the cramped conditions of a small aeroplane when many of these pictures are taken. Light and atmospheric conditions play a critical role in the success of each image and there are only two brief periods each year, the months either side of the vernal equinox in March and the autumnal equinox in September, when the angle of the sun corresponds to the angle of the north facing slopes of the Downs in such a way as to reveal the texture of these features.
John Holloway is an environmentalist and running parallel to his activities as an artist, he has been studying the unique qualities of the downland landscape with its thin alkaline, calcareous soil, and taking part in wildlife surveys to record the flora and fauna, for as long as he has been taking photographs.
The 30 artist's prints on show at the Independent Photographers Gallery will inspire anyone who has a connection with the South Downs.
Exhibition set to run in association with the Battle Arts Festival, a percentage of sales will go to the festival.