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Kasia Parker - The Land of Oak and Iron
10 Feb – 23 Mar 2025
Showing on National Glass Centre Ground Floor Screen.
Quick summary
- Price
- Free
- Running time
- 10:00 - 17:00 Daily
- Venue
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- Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Additional information
Digital video and audio: 1 minute 11 seconds (looped)
Event description
The second in a series of short film presentations submitted by students from Fine Art at University of Sunderland.
This video, filmed in Blyton amid the storied Derwent Valley, explores a landscape once thriving with iron and steel during the Industrial Revolution. Today, nature reigns, transforming the area into lush woodlands, vibrant riverbanks, and thriving grasslands teeming with wildlife. Part of the Quiet Alchemy multimedia project, it examines links between nature, science, and art.
Artist Kasia Parker uses natural materials and historic methods in her work, including oak galls from this very region to craft her drawing inks, blending past and present.
Credit: Kasia Parker, The Land of Oak and Iron film still, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
