The John Hansard Gallery welcome staff and students to Tom Dale’s exhibition: Terminal Blue. 9 December 2014 – 7 February 2015.
Over recent years Tom Dale has produced a body of work for both galleries and public spaces, bringing to both the same dexterity and questioning vision. Terminal Blue will concentrate on the following pieces, two of which are important works in the development of his practice that are for the first time, to be fully realised, as well as one set of works that have been commissioned especially for John Hansard Gallery.
Terminal Blue – the title work of the exhibition – forms the first part of the show, uniting art specifics, as much of Dale’s work does, such as questions of scale and definition with more phenomenological ones. The piece is partially participatory, consisting of a banner being flown across the sky by plane in the form of a giant-sized colour swatch that details the shift from dark blue to light blue.
Another work is Infinity Wall, an apparatus that enables the gallery space to continually record, produce and destroy its own memory in real time. The printed images, which will emerge from one of the gallery walls, only to be shredded minutes later, will accumulate in the space over the duration the exhibition leaving the detritus of its own memory to mingle with the other works in the show.
The publication will be available in summer 2015. Tom Dale: Terminal Blue is a John Hansard Gallery exhibition supported by The Henry Moore Foundation.
Join us for the opening of the exhibition on Saturday 6 December, 18:00 – 20:00. Free entry and all are welcome.
For more information please visit the John Hansard Gallery website.