New 3 metre wide prints were commissioned for the Cube3 Gallery at Peninsula Arts. The film was shown in the Crosspoint Gallery nearby in the same complex.
Cube3 Gallery, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth 2011
Stone Hole is a collaborative exhibition of large digital photographs by Crispin Hughes and a timelapse film by Susi Arnott, made in tidal sea-caves along the shoreline of North Cornwall.
Hughes’ interest initially began as a response to the work of Patinir and the Quattrocento religious painters who depicted caves as small domestic stages for the personal dramas of the saints, their demons and mortifications.
Hughes and Arnott set about working in real sea-caves, only accessible at certain times of the tide. During this time, a series of medical experiences transformed the project into a more intense reflection on bodily states, the mind and our perceptions of the world and ourselves.
Stone Hole challenges conventions in art that link landscape with beauty, the sublime and moral uplift, and is concerned with human and geological flux and dissolution.
"it produces a state of aphoria, almost of moral paralysis, when we're confronted
with these immensities" Prof.Niall McLaughlin, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
"A moving and deeply considered show which works on many levels"
Pratap Rughani, University of the Arts London