Napoléon’s Telescope Opening
Gina Glover
Exhibition from Saturday 5th May - Sunday 1st July 2012
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Jaywick Martello Tower, The Promenade, Belsize Avenue,
Jaywick, CO15 2LF
www.jaywickmartellotower.org
www.ginaglover.com
Napoléon’s Telescope
Gina Glover
Private View on Saturday 5 May
12.00 - 2.00 pm
Exhibition from Saturday 5th May - Sunday 1st July 2012
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Jaywick Martello Tower, The Promenade, Belsize Avenue,
Jaywick, CO15 2LF
www.jaywickmartellotower.org
www.ginaglover.com
Cocoon with pink Morning Glory
Gina’s work has just been selected to be shown at the Open Show Exhibition at Alfred East Gallery, Kettering.
More about the show soon.
Gina’s picture Krafla Geothermal Plant, Myvatn, Iceland has been selected by the Chelsea Arts Club
for its Here and Now show.
From the 1st of May 2012.
Chelsea Arts Club, 143 Old Church Street London, SW3 6EB
New publication
Gina’s picture Lidl Bag, from the series Objects of Colors, appears in Alexandra Loske’s latest publication Languages of Colour, along with Kay Syrad’s poem of the same name.
The Frogmore Press
ISBN 978-0-9570688-0-3
Lidl bag
A wild bush, a wreck in the prairie,
roots strewn like raked hair, or rope;
a red plastic can (unknown) (mute), and
the white Lidl bag with its yellow sun;
white stones on sand, hard and dry;
a layered sky with flying grey clouds
beneath puff white; light refracting
on red hidden in the bush; the shimmer
of reeds, line of light cutting behind
(is it an island?)—and she exploits colour
while I remember my thirst for a pure,
absolute red, my fear when I find it –
its prismatic origin, the way it harbours,
ingests, breaks all known colours.
Kay Syrad
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Napoléon’s Telescope
Gina Glover
You are warmly invited to the private view
12.00 - 2.00 pm on Saturday 5 May
Please RSVP Kerith.ririe@essex.gov.uk by Tuesday 1st May
Exhibition from Saturday 5th May - Sunday 1st July 2012
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Jaywick Martello Tower, The Promenade, Belsize Avenue,
Jaywick, CO15 2LF
www.jaywickmartellotower.org
www.ginaglover.com
PLAYGROUNDS OF WAR book
Playgrounds of War tells a story of the remaindered aesthetics of past wars, avoided wars and possible wars. These photographs deal with the monumental and emotional detritus of abandoned military bases, drawing upon Gina’s own childhood memories and her continuing personal sense of vulnerability in the face of military force.
In joining her investigation of decaying military sites across the UK and countries of the former Soviet block- secret airfields, coastal forts, emplacements, and nuclear missile sites - we uncover the traces of their past destructive power and also, more positively, how such places eventually succumb to the corrosive but rejuvenating power of time and nature.
To order a book, please contact me.
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TALK: PLAYGROUNDS OF WAR
Saturday 18th February 3:00pm
Playground of WarMon – Sat, 12 – 6pmruns 11th February – 3rd March 2012
The Horse Hospital
Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX
THE MAKING SPACE EXHIBITION
20th to 25th February, 12 noon to 5pm
Private View Wednesday 22nd February 2012
6.00 – 8.30pm
My new series EARTHLY POWERS features the Geothermal Powers Stations of Fafla, Iceland as part of the group show called MAKING SPACE, an exhibition examining artistic process, curated by Patricia Townsend and organised by the Slade PhD programme.
Participating artists include: John Aiken, Ed Allington, Sian Bonnell, Sonia Bridge, David Burrows, Fiona Curran, Michael Delacruz, Susan Derges, Simon Faithfull, Errol Francis, Gina Glover, Judith Goddard, Dryden Goodwin,David Johnson, Sharon Kivland, Laura Kuch, Tim Long, Leah Lovett, Laura Malacart, George Meyrick, Russell Mills, Lisa Milroy, Eleanor Morgan, Aaron Murphy, Hayley Newman, Deborah Padfield, Jayne Parker, Theresia Peng, Sarah Pickering, Liz Rideal, Nina Rodin, Henrietta Simson, Kai Syng Tan, Kay Tabernacle, Johan Thom, Elly Thomas, Thomson and Craighead, Patricia Townsend, Jo Volley, Veronica Vossen.
PRIVATE VIEW: FRIDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 7:30PM
ARTIST TALK: SATURDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 3:00PM
EXHIBITION: SATURDAY 11TH FEBRUARY – SATURDAY 3RD MARCH 2012, MON – SAT, 12 – 6PM
Gina Glover’s photographs deal with the monumental and emotional detritus of abandoned military bases, drawing upon Gina’s own childhood memories and her personal sense of vulnerability in the face of threatened military force. Playgrounds of War presents the aesthetics of past wars, avoided wars and possible wars.
As a child in the English Midlands in the 1950’s Glover travelled by pony and trap to Harrington in Northamptonshire, little knowing that it was a deserted former secret WWII airbase, converted to a nuclear missile base in the 1960s. Three decades later she began photographing this site. Since beginning the project, Glover has travelled to collapsing bunkers along the Moray Firth and explored missile targets in the Baltic States and in Germany. In accompanying her on her travels we begin to comprehend not only the massive destructive potential of these places and how they have succumbed to the corrosion of time, weather and nature.
Playgrounds of War illustrates Glover’s changing photographic practice over more than two decades. These photographs range from harsh black and white toned pictures taken in the 1980s, some depicting a small child lost against foreboding concrete structures, to surreal-like colour pinhole photographs. In these, using long exposures and layered light, a clouded sky has the seeming capacity to dislodge massive concrete monuments. Glover’s scanograms bring to the viewer the amateur’s efforts in the archaeology of such places, presenting bits of bomber aircraft, war kit, shells, bottles, images and objects.
Also included in this exhibition is Glover’s film Men of Air, a collaboration with the musician and designer Andy West. This film features the strange encounter between a farmer and ghostly presences of airmen on a secret WWII aerodrome in Northamptonshire. The film is based on recollections of his story by people living there. The star of the film is local farm worker Roy Leaning.
In the spring of 1968, I was ploughing in an area of Harrington Airfield and as I was just finishing up for the day I dropped the plough and suddenly had the feeling of being watched. I turned and looked back and to the right I saw a group of ten or twelve individuals, standing about 150 to 200 feet away, all dressed in full flying gear, one wearing a peaked cap, one with a torn flight jacket, several with flying boots unzipped. They exuded a sense of happiness rather than sadness. I got off the tractor to better observe, but the flyers had disappeared. - Roy Leaning, extract from the book ‘Airfield Focus’ by John Smith
Is the ghost story true? Who can tell? What might appear in the mind’s eye as the truth can, with the passage of time, get changed, passed around and distorted. What we imagine becomes part of local lore.
Born in London, Gina Glover is a co-founder and Director of the Photofusion Photography Centre, London. In 2008 Glover received the Royal Photographic Society’s Hood Medal, and she has been twice winner of the Medical Research Council/Novartis/Daily Telegraph Visions of Science Award.
Playgrounds of War is a touring exhibition, shown in places as far apart as Glasgow and Guangdong (China). In June 2012 it will be shown at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, in collaboration with the European Council.
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The Horse Hospital
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