Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Fri 7 Apr – Sat 6 May 6
After her successful exhibition at Swansea’s Mission Gallery at the end of 2016, Helen Dennis returns to the city, this time to the Elysium Gallery. The earlier exhibition was informed by the artist’s love of Swansea bay, its swaying tides and rolling beaches, and the geographical impact that people and industry has had upon it; her new exhibition revisits the same fertile coastline, possessing as it does some of the UK’s most stunning coasts alongside some of its largest industrial plants and factories.
UK-born, Brooklyn-based, Dennis’ work explores the borderlines of photography and moving image, intricate drawings colliding with kinetic movement. By focusing on the industrial landscape that’s seared into the area around Swansea and Port Talbot, Helen Dennis hopes to get audiences thinking about the ever-changing, shifting geography of the world around us, the balance between monolithic structures (man-made or otherwise) and the dwarfed humans that occupy themselves in their shadows, asking us to envision new ways of seeing and interacting with this environment.
Ephemeral Coast is part of a larger artistic collaboration that connects coastal communities worldwide, from Wales to North America to Mauritius, which aims to provoke debate about the changing and often eroding nature of coastlines everywhere due to man.
Admission: Free. Info: 07980 925 449 / www.elysiumgallery.com