Encounter was a new solo exhibition from artist Naomi Harwin, and Wysing Arts Centre's first presentation as part of a new programme strand, Test Space, which provides a public platform for Wysing’s studio artists to test out new ideas and directions.

As the first Test Space artist, Harwin continued her recent investigations into materiality and form to create an ambitious, immersive installation in a new small exhibiting space in Wysing’s main studio building.

Repurposing collaging techniques for a 3D environment, Encounter saw abstracted photographs, drawings, sculptures, video and lighting to make up multi-layered perspectives reminiscent of theatrical stage design. 

Drawing on an interest in the mutability of objects and materials, Harwin employs techniques of drawing, photography, print and sculpture to translate and re-translate a source object into something entirely new. For this exhibition she presented a series of objects with ambiguous sources, referencing machine-made and corporeal forms in a deceptive interplay of line and form, surface and object. 

Note: 2 March to 3 May (18 March - please note early closure due to Coronavirus)

Image credit: Wilf Speller

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