Trial and Retrieval

Abstract

Central to the theme of Trial & Retrieval is the notion of 'exploration' as presented by artists Lesli Sharples, Caroline Dalton, Kevin Phillips, Robert Williams and Jack Aylward-Williams. Collectively they demonstrate a myriad of fine art disciplines, encompassing paint, sculpture, installation, performance, text and social practice. These contemporary artists set out to investigate, assimilate and record their findings whilst spanning and mining the realms of history, politics, archaeology, anthropology and mythologies in terrain. The result is a veritable treasure trove of media which conjure the 'imaginings' whilst serving to reveal or possibly even obscure, our understandings of human activity and culture