Kathryn Cowen & Gareth Jenkins

Kathryn Cowen and Gareth Jenkins create immersive site-specific sound, ultraviolet light and sculpture installations that explore the future of nature. Together they infiltrate spaces with fluorescent biomorphic sculptural assemblages, hybridised life-forms made from a combination of organic and synthetic/industrial materials, speculative propositions for future life as a result of changing ecologies. They invite audiences to experience the familiar rendered strange and peculiar. Soundscapes using organic and industrial field recordings interwoven with spoken poetic narratives reference forces of inter and intra-action, creating resonant chambers, which envelop the audience. Under the unearthly glow of ultraviolet light, audiences are transported into a place of wonder.

Multidisciplinary artists Kathryn Cowen and Gareth Jenkins create an immersive site-specific sound, ultraviolet light and biomorphic sculpture installation within the old mechanics workshop. They draw together organic and industrial elements, bathed in UV light and intense sound, to create a speculative environment exploring ideas of time, memory and place. Under the changed light, the artists as excavators, expose the embedded memories of this much used work-site and imbue it with recent signs of life, introducing found organic materials and field recordings made during local explorations in nature. What memories do the sounds, sights and objects within the installation conjure in the minds of attendees?