AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
(1) To promote an international cultural discourse, through exhibitions and publications, in response to past and on-going inter-disciplinary theories on time, memory and identity.
(2) Our future exhibitions will offer the potential to collaborate with additional visual artists, as "Associates", and practitioners from other areas of human endeavour, such as literature, music and medical science.
(3) Educational activities, linked to our exhibitions, which seek direct engagement with diverse publics.

EXHIBITIONS
'The Landscape of Memory', 1st-3rd March 2012, supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the Swiss Embassy, London, NoFormat Gallery, London (www.noformat.co.uk)

EVENTS
Thursday, 1st March 2012 (6-9pm), VIP Private View (by invitation only)
Friday, 2nd March 2012 (11am-1pm), University Study Day,
NoFormat Gallery
Saturday, 3rd March 2012 (2-6pm), 'Curator's Tour & Artists' Tea', led by Dr Angela Summerfield (bookable event, see below)

MEMBERS

HJØRDIS DRESCHEL
Painter, Printmaker & Film-maker
My paintings and prints are provocative statements about the human condition, in a landscape of memory and the past. To allow the sublime to unfold, imagination renounces its claims to representation, bitterly aware of the experience of loss and exclusion.

My films juxtapose the narrative and the associative signs, and capture the past and the association to the then present - a work of art can recapture the lost and save it from destruction, at least in our minds. Art triumphs over the destructive power of time.
www.hjordis-dreschel.com

VALERIE JOLLY
Sculptor & Photographer
I cast objects in sticky wet tissue paper and when the paper dries, what I peel-off carries the form and marks of the original, only it is colourless and weightless. My paper sculptures are like a trace, a vaporous evocation of the original. They strive to inhabit the threshold between inside and outside, presence and absence, reality and memory…
www.valeriejolly.com

SARA LEE
Visual Artist & Printmaker
My images are visual metaphors for the memory of landscape - a connection between what is known and what is remembered. I am intrigued by the paradox of landscape; seemingly permanent, yet constantly evolving.
www.saraleeartist.co.uk

THERESE NORTVEDT
Painter & Printmaker
The identity of the inhabitants (human and animals) on my canvases is burdened with memory. This connects them to the past, so that they may both gaze into the future and hold the moment of time. www.theresenortvedt.com

ANGELA SUMMERFIELD
Fine Art Oil Painter, Printmaker & Art Historian
The experience of memories is one common to us all. It defines a sense of self and our individuality from which we build our "thinking" landscape. It can also, in a mirror-like fashion, determine how we respond to landscape, select and store visual images perceived, and subsequently how and why we make use of this vast storehouse of imagery. My response to landscape takes account of often multi-sensory impressions of sight, sound, smell and touch. This synaesthetic experience involves the artist in a profound process of creative immersion.
www.artistfolio.co.uk/angelasummerfield

CAROLINE SUMMERFIELD
Sculptor
Central to my work is the impalpability of the human form, when re-called through memory. In 'Ghosts' (featured in 'The Memory of Landscape') we share the universal experience of remembering those who have passed away. What is a ghost? One who has faded into impalpability, and who, the viewer must decipher.
(website under construction)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION / PRESS RELEASES /
TO BOOK AN EVENT PLEASE CONTACT
DR ANGELA SUMMERFIELD
Curator and Founder of The Memory Collective amsummerfield@btinternet.com
CAROLINE SUMMERFIELD
Legal Advisor and Administrator for The Memory Collective casummerfield@btinternet.com