The Creation by Anthony Fagin and Kate Malone
July 9th to August 6th 2005
This current exhibition continues the centuries old tradition of combining art and religious myth by telling the story of the Creation from the Book of Genesis through painting by Kate Malone and ceramic sculpture and photography by Anthony Fagin.
Kate Malone's paintings of the natural world around us and the forces that drive it are concerned less with actual landscape than with the elemental and relentless transformations of nature. These works are charged with atmosphere that can at once be both ominous and captivating but always enchanting.
Each of Anthony Fagin's ceramic sculptures is an individual “World” charting the six days of the creation of the Earth. The volcanic glaze on each piece enhances the volatile and explosive formative period when the Earth began as told by the myths of the Book of Genesis.
The show is complemented by photography by Anthony Fagin, which uses both his sculpture and Kate's paintings as its subject matter. Where as each of the artist's individual work tells it own story, the photographs capture the entire scope of the story with the sculpture in the foreground and the paintings providing the perfect backdrop.
Kate was born in London in 1948 and studied at Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall from 2000; this study was interspersed with painting trips to Turkey, Egypt and Andalusia. Since her first major show at the Falmouth Arts Centre in 2004 she has exhibited regularly throughout Cornwall.
Anthony was born in Johannesburg in 1938 and after working extensively throughout the world he began to exhibit his photography and ceramics in 2004 achieving a blue riband for outstanding artistic achievement for his photography and a public award for his ceramics. Since then Anthony has exhibited in many shows throughout Cornwall and has work on long-term loan to the Falmouth Arts Centre.
Jake Bose, Vitreous Contemporary Art |
