Inkubator

This creative, conceptual display of artists' books, prints and mutiples allows viewers access to a wide variety of visual material through the creation of themed rooms curated by artist David Faithfull. The works demonstrate the complexity of text, image and object relations, pointing to the artists' book genre as a complete method of utilising these forms. Surprisingly, you can handle most of the books directly whilst exploring the Study, Log Cabin or Landscape interiors which are all decorated with beautiful site-specific conceptual wall papers. The Log Cabin is a busy environment of natural samples, historical books and words. This contrasts with the Study and its more academic, enclosed descripition of the natural world. Lyndsay Mann's screenprinting of mirrored floral forms and her watercolours of Received Ideas remind us of underlying geometric systems in nature and their relation to urban systems and frameworks. Don't miss the Audio Listening Post, particularly Zoe Irvine and Helen Douglas' Illiers Combray which brillinatly evokes the complexity of environmental experience through the suggestion of present and past sound. The range of material and methods of display often makes it difficult to differentiate and achieve a complete 'reading' of the artists' work, but perhaps that's an appropriate way of demonstrating how thoughts and experiences can interlock and confuse. [Lucy Gallwey]