A collection of new art shows - ranging from detailed graphite drawings and photographs masquerading as early 20th century war images to etchings of birds - opened this month at the history Dean Clough galleries in Halifax.
The Crossley Gallery is hosting the work of Todmorden artist Margaret Uttley, whose drawings and paintings of Pennine moorlands, Mor, capture the scale and majesty of the area’s landscapes, while the Upstairs Galleries are housing works from the Dave Gunning Collection, a painterly exhibition of pieces gifted to the Todmorden Fine Art Gallery.
The Photography Gallery is showing Julian Dyer’s Relive and Remember, a collection of photographs taken using traditional film in a mid-1970s camera but of subject matter that appears to pre-date the technology. His anachronistic works capture images of German soldiers, trench warfare and killing machines and ask if the passage of time bleeds authenticity from photographs.
In the Link Gallery, Janis Goodman is showing The Ubiquity of Sparrows, a play on the collective noun for the tiny garden birds. Her etchings and aquatints often contain bird images, which Goodman says highlights: “their fragility of their existence in the face of human degradation”.
All the exhibitions are open until January 17, 2016, and the galleries are open from 9am until 5pm seven days a week.
