Spin Events
An Entangled Bank
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
29 October 2009, 6-7.30pm
An Entangled Bank is the partner exhibition to Darwin’s Edinburgh. It will present a series of diverse but interrelated works by five contemporary artists, who have drawn inspiration from one of Darwin’s most famous visual metaphors – the term ‘an entangled bank’ which appears in On the Origin of Species, and encapsulates both Darwin’s vivid literary style as well as the density, difference and dependence he observed in the natural world.
The exhibition will include work by Christine Borland, Ilana Halperin, Brian Hewitt, Kenny Hunter and Ben Rivers who all have national and international reputations and work in various media including film, photography, digital projection, sculpture, installation and film.
Joining us to discuss his work, will be Glasgow-based artist Kenny Hunter. Kenny was the very first artist invited to join Spin in discussions back in 2003, so it will be a pleasure to have him with us again.
Kenny Hunter was born in Edinburgh in 1962 and studied Fine Art and Sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art during the mid 80s. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad. He has also a number of high profile, commissions for Scotland including Cherub/Skull for the Tron Theatre, and Citizen Firefighter outside Glasgow’s Central Station.
This will be an opportunity for us to discuss how Darwin’s ideas about evolution have influenced the artists involved and how their work incorporates and presents these.