Space and place

A change of scene, today. I went out to One Church Street, a small commercial gallery in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, to see ‘The Edge of Change.’ This exhibition has come out of a collaboration between the artists Polly Binns and Rod Bugg and the curator Barbara Dougan.

In the exhibition, you can see the conversations between these three in action. A short discussion filmed in the gallery among the work – hung by the artists through seeing the work in conversation in the gallery – pulls together the ‘threads’ that connect Binns’ and Bugg’s work – space, place, time, sensitivity, edge, and change. To me, this says everything about the interaction between curation, creativity and conversation which underlines this exhibition. The works relate visually so well across the gallery precisely because of these relationships. Looking at each artist’s previous catalogues you can see how their work is developing in conversation with each other.

‘The Edge of Change’ seems an eminently appropriate title, in terms not only of the journey that Binns, Bugg and Dougan have taken to the show, but also in the sense of anticipation that the show seems to embody. It is a liminal event in its own right. I look forward to seeing what comes next out of this partnership.