RHIZOMA
t e n t, Evolution House, 2 West Port, Edinburgh.
Preview Monday 29 September 4 - 7 pm.
Exhibition open Tue 30 Sept - Fri 3 Oct 2008.
Opening hours Tues – Thurs 12 - 7 pm, Fri 12 - 4 pm.


[Image: Emma Hambly]

Rhizoma is an exhibition of work by three visual artists, Thorunn Bjornsdottir, Emma Hambly and Jenny Paine, in which each contemplates something of their individual notions of evolution. The works range from those inspired by scientific research to fantastic flights of fancy, in a range of media and dimensions.

Thorunn Bjornsdottir is an undergraduate student in Drawing & Painting at Edinburgh College of Art. Her current artworks originate from research into an emerging ecosystem. Her mixed media works on paper are explorations into the visual communication of understanding of the natural world, and are based on documentation of scientific work conducted on Surtsey, a volcanic island off her native Iceland, which came into existence following an eruption in 1963.

Emma Hambly is an undergraduate student in Drawing & Painting at Edinburgh College of Art. Her exhibited works are concerned with biological evolution as well as personal and cultural perceptions of progress. Glass ecosystems question and illustrate processes of microbial and global change, and the knowledge associated with them, while her drawings and other objects examine considerations of development and relatedness.

Jenny Paine is an MA Drawing & Painting graduate from Edinburgh College of Art. Her drawings and text works explore notions of evolution in a narrative sense.  Her interest in evolution is poetic and personalised, an interest that explores our day to day thoughts on the subject and our cultural consciousness. Scenes and objects are used symbolically –rather like props- so as to create a symbolic language, and the real and the mythic exist side by side as an imaginative framework of contemporary existence is created.