Super Severn

SuperSevern is an exhibition of artists' responses to the river Severn, an exceptional super-river. It has an astonishing tidal range and sees an immense daily confluence of fresh and saltwater. It uniquely shapes its wider geographical region.

The artists exhibiting are Jean Boyd, Marko Dutka, Katie Forrester, Tim Johnston,Susie Olczak and Tom Spooner,
The exhibition in Elwes Gallery, University of Gloucestershire, brings material objects, visual and sound-based works together to offer personal, collective and imagined narratives, allowing multiple ways of knowing the river to coexist. Past objects and mythic stories become tools for imagining future responses, suggesting how we learn from the river through making, unmaking and re-making as an ongoing process. The exhibition draws out thought pathways in our relationships with the river, through film, photography, material objects, and specially commissioned drawing and music composition.

Join us on Tuesday 12th May from 4-5pm for a special sound installation in Elwes Gallery, and from 5-7pm for the SuperSevern Symposium with exhibiting artists chaired by University of Gloucestershire senior curator, Sarah Bowden. Please book to secure your place, free-of-charge https://www.eventbrite.com/e/s...

We will be joined at the Symposium by Sarah Rhys, an interdisciplinary artist living and working between rural Carmarthenshire and Bristol. Sarah describes her research as design anthropology, investigating traditional coracle-making and the way different rivers have influenced their regional design due to their geographic specificity. https://rhysstudio.org/