This is not an exhibition with paintings on a wall and sculptures on plinths. It is instead an exhibition that focuses on the space around objects and the atmosphere created within a chosen site called an "installation".
In this case the site is Tank 3 at the Tanks Art Centre. It has been set up so that it imitates a commemorative shrine to living artists.
Originally, the tank itself was a container of fluid; oil for Navy ships. So as elements in the exhibition, the artist Jill Chism has also used containers with fluid, that is, wooden boxes with fluid.
Another medium she uses is cement - fitting for a tank.
The work relies heavily on mood created by low lighting and candles and is therefore very different to the usual experience you have when visiting an art exhibition. The objects cannot be viewed in isolation from the rest of the work because they make references to each other. On the floor are cement "moon shaped" pools around which the viewer has to negotiate in the same way as they negotiate the circle of the tank, ever conscious of the curves.
The work also features the lives of eight artists, including Jill Chism herself. Aspects of their lives are glued to shrouds which suspend from the ceiling, or are featured in the shrine they have made to their lives which are placed in or over water.
This is work not to be missed because of the opportunity it presents to view something very different.
