Rope Store Gallery / Sat 4 Sep – Sat 9 Oct / Preview: Sat 4 Sep, 6 - 8 pm All Welcome

Using painting and sculpture, this collaboration explores the lines between dwellings and landscapes, biology and infrastructure, where man-made structures are grafted to their surroundings by time and human activity.

Christopher Jenkins is a craftsman and fine artist. He creates sculptures, hand-made instruments and land art from discarded pieces of machines and instruments that are considered obsolete or junk. His work often combines elements of music and installation. Christopher studied BA Illustration at Falmouth College of Arts. He has exhibited widely across London and the South of England.

Contemporary Fine Artist Joanne Hummel-Newell works across a variety of mediums including drawing, painting and animation. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006 she has gone on to exhibit in Group Shows in London, Germany, New York and Rome, and is represented by New Blood Art. Joanne has also screened her animations at international film festivals and has performed live visuals at the Edinburgh festival and Covent Garden.

Since re-locating from London, both artists work prolifically from their studios on the Isle of Wight.

"Since meeting each other at university, Chris and I have collaborated on a number of projects, from children’s books to animations. This Exhibition is about the habitats we create as humans, from rural and urban to abstract fantasy. These environments can seem both brutal and beautiful, and always intriguing." The Artist, Joanne Hummel-Newell

"In ‘Unnatural History’ Joanne uses landscape as her primary source of inspiration in this new body of painting, although they are rarely directly representational. Field systems, urban sprawl and land use are knitted together like patchwork. Chris' Wooden structures and dwellings made from found objects reflect our human desire to build and manipulate material. Little houses on stilts with intricate ladders and bridges are interlaced alongside a mélange of painted landscape." Exhibitions Organiser, Georgia Newman