Truth and tribute

A two artist tribute to the parallel worlds of the troubled human species and the natural world, through a series of anniversaries marked in the current year; 2009

'When man saw himself as separate to nature he began to build walls.'

'All Walls must and will eventually fall. Nature, unlike man will always find a way to carry on.'

We all (some of us more than others) spend our lives looking for the truth. We look for it in the places in which we will never find it. The only place in which we can find it - in ourselves - we dare not look, because it scares the hell out of us; it unearths a 'wasp's nest' of fear and discomfort, which has been laid down over the years that one has spent alive on earth.

Nature, however, doesn't live by these rules/fears - it needs no walls. It is truth, and for this reason, when our cities have collapsed and when all our wars are done with, nature will be the thing which prevails, not us. Humankind is hurtling in the wrong direction believing, ever more so, that it is separate to nature, whilst it is beginning to depend on it more than ever.

In this exhibition 2 artists pay tribute to the parallel worlds of the troubled human species and the natural world, through a series of anniversaries which are marked in the current year of 2009. John Ledger pays tribute to the 10^th anniversary of the construction of his own perpetual walls, the 20^th anniversary of the fall of The Berlin Wall, the 30^th anniversary of the release of 'The Wall' album by Pink Floyd and the 60th anniversary of the release of 1984 by George Orwell. These anniversaries have had a profound influence, either in the construction of his walls, or the in the realisation of them, even if it wasn't acknowledged at the time.

Bradley Sharp pays tribute to the 200^th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the father of the evolution theory, a theory which, as well as being very important towards the way we humans see life on earth, has played a very important part in the development of Bradley's life and his art practice.

It is also suggestible that Bradley's and John's works reflect the growth patterns of both the natural world and the manmade world, respectively. The automatic nature of Bradley's work - being that this is a reaction, and accommodation, to one's immediate environment - develops in a similar way to how nature develops/evolves, whilst John's work - being pre-planned and constantly point proving - reflects many of the larger insecurities which have plagued the human race since its beginnings.