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CHEMICAL LANDSCAPES ART EXHIBITIONLocal artist Sarah Nicholson has been busy creating a new body of work for exhibition at the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre in Widnes, Cheshire. The exhibition runs from 1st June to the 22nd August 2004. Sarah has been creating drawings of our industrial landscape for many years. She uses snatched glimpses from trains or cars to make thumbnail sketches, which are then worked up into large scale pastel drawings. The work is bold and bright - celebrating this country's industrial heritage and the many people who work in it. Sarah's latest exhibition has been created with the support of five local chemical companies: INEOS Chlor, INEOS Fluor, EVC, Tessenderlo and Bayer CropScience. Sarah visited each company's site to gather sketches of the buildings and structures and from these created framed pastel pictures for the exhibition. Comments Sarah: "We are all chemical creatures, our very lives are a series of chain reactions." Sarah is keen that this element is visible in her work. The buildings that she depicts are "full of energy, the energy of the people who work in them and whose skillful formulas make our lives easier, healthier and longer." Sarah sees the towers and spires of the industrial skyline as enchanting, as magical and mysterious as the processes going on within them. She hopes that her work might open up some other understanding of industry, some recognition beyond the reflex of rejection that many people have. While she does not claim to comprehend the processes involved in the creation of the chemicals upon which our lives are so dependent, she does appreciate the aesthetic of the structures that contain them and her work celebrates another form of creativity. Sarah Nicholson gratefully acknowledges the kind
support of all the companies involved, of the Catalyst Science Discovery
Centre and of Halton Borough Council Arts Unit. The project has
been made possible with a grant from the Arts Council of England. For more information about Sarah's works, please visit her website.
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