Skip to main content

Pilih Bahasa

Apabila panduan tidak menyediakan terjemahan dalam bahasa anda, mereka biasanya diterjemahkan oleh Google. Walau bagaimanapun, sesetengah panduan hanya tersedia dalam bahasa asalnya.

Transkrip

Kapsyen

  • An installation artwork made up of solar panels with celestial imagery, mounted onto a metal framework.

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape

9 Oktober 2024 – 23 Februari 2025

Penerangan

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape brought together photographic artwork from the late 1960s to the present day, inspired by this unique and evocative landscape. With its open spaces, ancient woodland and layered traces of human activity, Dartmoor has long attracted artists, often depicting the landscape as a picturesque rural idyll.

During the later 20th century, artists began to explore radical new approaches, using Dartmoor as a space for experimentation: both a place for making and a source of creativity. Dartmoor is now home to a thriving artistic community, whose work is recognised internationally. RAMM’s location means it has, over time, become the custodian of a range of objects found, made and inspired by Dartmoor. 

Dartmoor exists in the cultural imagination as a place of freedom and wilderness, but it is also a contested landscape and a microcosm of urgent issues facing Britain today. Concerns about the interconnected ecological crisis and climate breakdown, as well as who has access to the land, were explored by artists through collaborations with climate scientists, protestors and other experts.

The exhibition premiered commissions by Alex Hartley and Ashish Ghadiali whose research into the museum’s collections of historic photography and archaeological artefacts prompted artistic explorations of Dartmoor’s deep time and ecology. It also showcased work by Fern Leigh Albert, Jo Bradford, Chris Chapman, John Curno, Robert Darch, Siân Davey, Susan Derges, Robin Friend, Nancy Holt, Laura Hopes and Katharine Earnshaw, Richard Long, Garry Fabian Miller, James Ravilious, Tanoa Sasraku, David Spero, Nicholas J R White and Marie Yates. This page provides an overview of the work of nine of the artists included in the exhibition.

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape

Transkrip

Lara Goodband:

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape starts in 1969. Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson came to Dartmoor. Artists were making work from the other side of the world, inspired by this place, just got me thinking about what an important and special place it was to artists since then and artists who continue to make work, particularly in photography, living on Dartmoor now.

Tom Usher:

We're really pleased to be partnering with the RAMM on this particular exhibition. There is a vibrant contemporary culture in Dartmoor. We're very keen to be involved with partners in addressing the climate emergency and on maintaining Dartmoor as a wilderness for everybody because there's so much out there and it's really important both now and to the future of Dartmoor.

Lara Goodband:

We're able to invite artists in to be inspired by the collections. We've invited Alex Hartley and Ashish Ghadiali to be inspired to create new work. So many elements of Dartmoor which we're trying to bring out in the exhibition. A space that is away from the city, a space of inspiration, a place that can be for recreation, spaces to really think about a kind of philosophical approach to living. People will get to see Dartmoor in quite new ways. You'll see some of your favorite artists set amongst contemporary artwork, which is really investigating the climate emergency and some of the important issues of today.

Tom Usher:

Dartmoor National Park appears on the face of it to be completely empty, but in fact it's very busy and there's a lot of competing interests, there's a lot of competing views on how to use the park. Exhibitions like the one at the RAMM are really important to bring the multiplicity of views to the public, and if we don't keep educating people on that subject, there's a real risk that people's views won't be heard and Dartmoor won't be able to serve everybody

Kredit

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter

SOROTAN

  • An installation artwork made up of solar panels with celestial imagery, mounted onto a metal framework.
  • A man man standing at the edge of a waterfall, wrapped in a towel.
  • Photogram of the surface of river water creating ripple effects.
  • Large yellow image with a white circle at the centre.
  • A rocky landscape with large outcrops. In the distance, a single green tent is situated amongst the shrubs.
  • A group of people stood in a circle in front of a large rock formation.
  • Bullet casings submerged in water with shrubs and grass.
  • An observation post on a grassy hillside.
  • Black and white photograph of a man using a camera, surrounded by trees and foliage. His face is hidden by a cloth.
  • Black and white photograph of a group of hikers stood in a circle on a hillside. another figure stands away from the group looking towards them.
  • Black and white photograph of a soaked hiker standing on a moorland with their arms outstretched in front of them.
  • A multi panel artwork mounted onto a gallery wall. The artwork displays photographs of forests.

Disediakan sebahagiannya oleh Terjemahan Google

Translated by Google

Lesen Perisian