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Penny McCarthy’s Clouds Fall in Love with Mortal
Sat 11 Feb
|Hastings
OCA Tutor Bryan Eccleshall had the privilege of being one of Penny’s PhD students between 2010 and 2016 and will be running a Study Visit to the exhibition at Hastings Contemporary on Saturday February 11 2023.
Time & Location
11 Feb 2023, 13:00
Hastings , Rock-a-Nore Rd, Hastings TN34 3DW, UK
Guests
About the Event
In 2019 Penny McCarthy – Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University – won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Prize which is awarded as part of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
The catalyst for the drawings in the resulting exhibition – Clouds Fall In Love With Mortal – was a newspaper image from 2016 of a ‘Fata Morgana’ mirage in the sky above Hastings that looked like a portal to another world. Each drawing in the series is associatively linked to the enigmatic Fata Morgana mirage, in which the sea appears in the sky and the world is turned upside down. Penny McCarthy uses pencil drawing with an exacting slowness that is a kind of reverie or extended contemplation.
Prevented by the pandemic from making her planned visits to Hastings, the artist found opening up instead a speculative and metaphorical exploration of myths and narratives associated with the sea…