FLIGHT is a new exhibition by Lisa Stansbie which is now showing at Huddersfield Art Gallery.
Lisa’s work crosses the disciplines of film, sculpture, installation, photography and digital practices.
Over the past six years, Lisa has created a digital archive by collecting mundane information via search engines on the internet.
She then uses the archive as a source for the creation of satellite art works; films, sculptures and installation.
Flight is a collection of works that has its roots within the archive.
The pieces are connected to each other through the act of flight and includes wings, aeroplanes and birds.
The exhibition’s fictional narratives encourage notions of flight instilling a sense of leaving, loss, escape and journeys.
Lisa’s work uses real Airfix model plane sets. Through sculpture, readymades, photographs and video these sets are presented in various states of completion.
The Wings is a public house installed in the space. Visitors are invited to take a seat and watch the television.
On screen is a film titled, Apprehension which is also the name of a horse.
Lisa traced the horse’s breeding line and has used the names of the other horses she found to structure the story that is told in the video.
The story is set in the pub that the watcher is sitting in.
A similar process is used for the pile of books in the corner. Here the titles of the top 10 bestsellers of 1950 are used to tell the story in the film, The Cloud Collector which features a series of jet streams linking back to the themes of the rest of the exhibition.
The show runs until March 24.
