• Janette Kerr Janette Kerr Royal West of England Academy Both artists and astronomers are, in a way, translators. • They convert what we can see into a story we can tell. • InCosmos: The art of observing space, a new exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, UK, every facet of this process is on display. • “We recalibrate our perspectives nourished by the prolonged experience of the sustained gaze,” writes artist Ione Parkin, the exhibition’s curator, in an essay about the show, evoking nights of stargazing as much as those spent poring over scientific data. • The exhibition, which runs until 19 April, invites visitors to engage in their own act of observation and discover new insights in the interweaving of art and science. • Advertisement For the image above, Janette Kerr worked with communities in Iceland, Greenland, Shetland and Somerset to freeze time through solargraphy - photography of the sun with months-long exposure times.
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- A new exhibition, Cosmos: The Art of Observing Space, opened at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and runs until 19 April. Curated by artist Ione Parkin, the show explores how art and astronomy translate the visible universe into narrative. Highlights include Janette Kerr’s solar‑graphy photographs that capture the sun with months‑long exposures, Alex Hartley’s piece combining a solar panel with images of Neolithic standing stones, Parkin’s own painting of swirling solar plasma, and Michael Porter’s “Impossible Landscape” that blends familiar terrestrial geology with speculative vistas. The exhibition invites visitors to observe and discover new insights at the intersection of science and creativity.
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