Ilana Halperin
13 July – 13 October 2019
Preview: Fri 12 July, 5.30-7pm
Originally from New York, Ilana Halperin studied for her MFA at Glasgow School of Art, and now works between Glasgow and the Isle of Bute. Her research-practice is internationally oriented, with a deep time focus, and explores the relationship between geology and everyday life.
Her latest project takes her back to New York, her childhood home, through a 'mineral biography of the city’, which takes shape across a range of media, including drawings, photographs and objects.
At the project's heart is a piece of garnetiferous gneiss, excavated from beneath the street that Halperin grew up on - a point of connection between her biography, that of the modern city, and the deep geological time that shaped it.
This work was produced for a recent solo exhibition at Leeds Arts University, and is on view for the first time in Scotland.
For more info see here.