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Clouds Underground
October 06, 2005

Gillian Rocca has had shows all over Britain and the Continent, including the Clapham Art Gallery and artLondon, She is affiliated with the Studio Voltaire group in Clapham. Gillian suggests that her work offers a way of overcoming feelings of confinement generated by city life: "I have been painting clouds and seascapes - since I moved to the city, which I am sure has had an impact upon my preoccupation with these seemingly limitless spaces."

As there is a bit of a sky theme this week, here is a painting, from the summit of Howth hill in Dublin, by Conann Fitzpatrick. I include this as the inspiration for it was, what I imagine to be a pretty typical, but no less spectacular, Irish weather phenomenon. Having been caught in a similar fashion on Bull Island and then pelted with hailstones!

Howth

Rainstorm Approaching Howth
Size: 20"x 30"
Oil on Canvas
Price: £950.00
Purchase from conann.com

Kind of relates to the set I am working on of the sky from my window. Mostly overlookng Crystal Palace, where, years ago, the Palace itself would have stood. But I can also see Docklands, The Millennium Dome and Dulwich School, amongst other things. There are only a few pictures so far, taken at different times of the day but already there is a vast range of colours forever changing over this framed expanse of London.

Underground is a new creation inspired by Crime and Punishment. Dostoyevsky's most famous novel centres on Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, who commits a gruesome murder, then experiences a living nightmare in a desperate search for redemption.

Underground recreates the feverish, dreamlike atmosphere of Dostoyevsky’s world by luring you through basement spaces of the Old Abattoir in Clerkenwell.

This 15,000 square feet of industrial underworld is a labyrinthine of interconnecting chambers. Once inside, you have the freedom to follow a character or narrative thread, or simply to wander through the maze. Here scenes, film images and chance encounters will merge, transform and dissolve before you like a constantly shifting hallucinatory dream.

This amazing event, by DreamThinkSpeak is part of the Young Genius series and runs from
10 - 29 October 2005. The Old Abattoir is at 187-211 St John Street, Clerkenwell, London EC1 and tickets can be purchased from the Barbican. Google Map

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