Instinct exhibition in Sheffield

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO INSTINCT
AN EXHIBITION COMPRISING THE WORK OF SIX ARTISTS WHO WILL EXPLORE INSTINCTIVE BEHAVIOUR

PRIVATE VIEW: 15/01/10 AT 7PM
34 THE MOOR, SHEFFIELD, SOUTH YORKSHIRE, S1 4PA
OPEN 16/01/10 – 22/01/10 12 – 6PM, CLOSED SUNDAYS

The early bird catches the worm
It’s a dog eat dog world
There are plenty more fish in the sea

It is not a new idea that we humans are not so different from the rest of the animal kingdom. Instinct can be described as behaving spontaneously, reacting in an animalistic way, not by learned behaviour or based on experience but by intuition. When are the moments when we feel most instinctual? What is it to be human or animal and what is the relationship between us? We live in tandem with animals; in fact, our genetic make-up can be extremely similar, yet as people, we consider ourselves the dominant species. We ultimately govern the planet and yet we, the more ‘intelligent’ species, are in many ways actually destroying it.

From this huge topic a few of us artists will pose our own questions and comment on our ‘animalistic’ side, which vary from the humorous to the macabre, from the confessional to the symbolic and representational. The artists have been selected because these questions are already festering within their respective artistic practices, and are being grappled with through a range of media and visual languages.