Exhibition: SHAPE, A Collaborative Exhibition from Sarah Callow & Rob Jones

Gallery open 10am-4.30pm Tuesday-Friday, plus during events. Look out for special Saturday open days. Free entry.

This exhibition is an exciting, collaborative show of steel sculptures and darkroom photographs. The exhibition joins the talents of renowned local sculptor Rob Jones and fine art photographer Sarah Callow, in her first significant exhibition on the island. The exhibition titled SHAPE is crafted around an aspect that is significant to both artists and features prominently in the work they create.

Rob Jones makes large scale sculptures, crafted from steel and other found metals that have been discarded locally. His work seeks to rejuvenate cast-aside materials, transforming them into stark yet beautiful shapes, forms, lines and textures with both complexity and purpose. The sculptures draw on rural and industrial Manx scenes, often using discarded items and off-cuts from the engineering industry. The shapes of those differing pieces and their materials have inspired Rob and have been intrinsic to his core creative process.

Sarah is fascinated by the shapes and forms of the world around her. She photographs regularly in various locations on the island, but also avidly when she travels.

She takes inspiration from often overlooked aspects of the Manx environment, frequently choosing to compose architectural details that have strong links to shape, form, texture, leading lines and space. Her habitual area of interest is man-altered landscapes. They are frequently changed by transfiguring qualities of natural light and the beautifully unpredictable Manx weather. “I see myself as a passive observer, capturing instances of beauty that exist for just that moment, with no guarantee of being replicated in that way again.”

This collection of work is analogue and has been shot on 35mm monochrome film, which was hand developed and printed in a darkroom. It is also accompanied by several pieces of cameraless photography, to create shape-driven, abstract works of art that are the product of nothing more than light and shadows on photo sensitive paper.

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