The Shape Life

Curated by Artist & Writer ,Gary Brewer

The concept of the exhibition The Shape of Life has shape-shifted and become a larger overarching idea of how the arc of time, from the deep time of evolution, to include the human scale of the transformations of social systems. Many artists work will creatively fill the space of natural history and the forms of life that have been shaped through the organic processes of evolution, others will touch upon profound shifts to the shape of life of an individual, a people or a civilization within the arc of time of our human understanding. This exhibition brings together many different artists to explore and respond to the idea of life’s manifold complexities, of its protean nature and the endless possibility of life to take shape and survive. This is not an academic show illustrating these concepts but a poetic response to the imagination of nature and of human imagination, whose endless variety and complexity is the wellspring of new worlds.