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Metamorphoses A
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Wivenhoe News, Spring 2006) Adrian Multon has previously shown his work at Art on the Railings and at the art exhibition which follows the annual Civil Service, but his current showing at Les Livres Gallery in Colchester Library (2nd to 27th February, 2006) is his first solo exhibition. It is an impressive collection of photographic images which use form and colour, reflection and refraction, contrasts and surprises, and each image is linked to a wellspring of reference. The artist has twenty six works on display; they are "an attempt to reshape landscapes far and near in a new, occasionally surreal light; the titles have been borrowed from nine diverse forms of 'storytelling', and serve as both link to, and distancing mechanism from the reality." Adrian (or Tim, as the name he is better know by in Wivenhoe) further says that his aim is to show how it is possible to manipulate images at the point of exposure using traditional photographic media, and so capture a direct emotional or artistic response to a scene as opposed to the more measured approach of digitally re-describing the scene in the relatively sterile comfort of home or office. One might say that his is an art of feeling, married to technique. He has a very special eye. Peter Kennedy Click here for Adrian Multon's page in the Wivenhoe Encyclopedia |