Gill Hobson: Lightlines, Abbeywalk Gallery, Grimsby.

I went to see this inspirational exhibition at the wonderful Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby.  Lightlines is a two part exhibition featuring photographs and a light installation, also featuring the images.  Gill's inspiration is her own home and the interplay of light within it's spaces.  She has taken over 500 images in her house and a selection of these form the photographic part of the exhibition.  Gill doesn't admit to being a photographer and her previous work is in glass sculptures.  In fact she took the pictures using a basic compact camera but has manipulated them in Photoshop.  They look somewhat like old-style colour negatives, but with an overall blue cast.  They have a dream-like or ghostly quality to them, enhanced by the fact that there are no people in any of them.  They are framed in a mixed collection of frames that she has collected over a period of time, the linking quality being that they have all been sprayed white, are mounted on white and hung on a white background.  Gill says that the work is about making the familiar seem strange.  She likens them to Atget's images of Paris Streets, which, also, largely lack people.

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The second part of the exhibition is a light installation using many of the 5000 images that she has taken and processed.  They are projected via three projectors onto the walls of a completely white room.  The images from the projectors are reflected off mirrors onto walls and frames or through lined perspex cubes to produce yet more light effects.  The whole is an absolutely fascinating spectacle and is accompanied by an eerie vocal soundtrack which adds to the thought-provoking other-worldliness of the exhibition.

Images

1. Hobson, G. (2014) Lightstain 3 [photograph] [online image] Available from: http://nicktriplow.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/disturbing-universe-gill-hobson.html [Accessed 25.4.14]

2. Hobson, G. (2014) Lightstain 9 [photograph] [online image] Available from: http://nicktriplow.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/disturbing-universe-gill-hobson.html [Accessed 25.4.14]