Rope Store Gallery, Quay Arts : Sat 12 Jun – Sat 10 Jul 2010 : Private View: Sat 12 Jun, 12:30 – 2:30 pm All Welcome : Artists’ Talk & Networking Evening: Thu 24 Jun 6 – 8pm

Judith Alder’s new exhibition, Wanderings brings together for the first time a body of work which takes us on a voyage of discovery, exploring familiar and unfamiliar landscapes, environments and locations from some very different perspectives.

Imaginary journeys have always been a way of indirectly experiencing adventure and danger from the secure place beneath one’s own duvet; a way of staying in control while learning to cope with life’s realities.

In children’s literature, a common narrative describes a child venturing from a safe home to a wider, sometimes fairytale or fantasy world, experiencing adventure, excitement and danger and returning safely.

In Wanderings, you are invited to follow the artist’s journeys, real and imagined, through indoor and outdoor spaces on a variety of scales from the miniature to the human, with mapping as a tool used to mark an experience, time or place.

During the past 18 months Judith has made the journey to and from the Isle of Wight on a number of occasions in order to develop ideas for a series of pieces inspired by the island.

As a result, Wanderings will include a number of new works responding to the island’s ongoing battle against the threat of attack by and from the sea. Judith’s family background (her father’s family were Shetlanders) will also be reflected in a new series of photographic works, “From the Back of Beyond (…those undiscovered solitudes)” which explore romantic notions of the remote island as both refuge and place of isolation.

Wanderings is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.