Seeing Stars – The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery

Seeing Stars at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, was an exhibition curated by myself. The exhibition was an extension of my research into our relationship with space through arts and science visualisations. It included contemporary art works that combine recent developments and technologies of space research and art-making with ancient visions and poetic explorations of the cosmos.

Exhibiting artists include Stella Baraklianou, Vija Celmins, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Hondartza Fraga, Lia Halloran, Mishka Henner, Julia F. Hill, Risa Horowitz, Melanie King, Mark Lascelles-Thornton, Paul Magee and Thomas Ruff.

April – July 2022

the exhibtion and accompanying publication were supported by White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (AHRC) and the University of Leeds.

…nowadays we would consider outer space to be the realm of science and astronomy, and inner-space to be the realm of fantasy and psychology. This was not always the case…human beings have been travelling to and exploring other planets and moons…for many centuries now; doing so not with rockets, but with nothing more technologically advanced than the powers of the human mind…

S. D. Tucker, Space Oddities, 2017

All images © The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, 2022