It Requires Getting Lost at Castlefield Gallery

Castlefield Gallery presents a meeting of meeting of international artists and local contemporary creatives – an exhibition resulting of a unique partnership between the Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), Venture Arts and Castlefield Gallery.

In the exhibition, North-based artists Gregory Herbert, Malik Jama and Jocelyn McGregor are responding to the work of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Noemie Goudal, Pierre Huyghe, Leon Kossoff, and Wolfgang Tillmans. They are working together, creating new paths in their respective practices and developing new ways of thinking, in response to each other and the collections they’ve been accessing. 

Jocelyn McGregor is a sculptor who uses her own body as a starting point and often combines it with organic elements of the land. Gregory Herbert explores the interactions between humans, non-human organisms and their environment. Malik Jama works with projection mapping and photography manipulation, often focusing on images of industrial architecture with a sci-fi twist. All three follow threads of the interaction between organic and artificial worlds and their inhabitants.

The artists have been visiting places where humans and nature interact unexpectedly – Anderton boat lift, a wishing well in Alderley Edge and Yordas Cave in Ingleton amongst others. They became immersed in the research and creative processes – ‘getting lost’ to create something new. The result is a cave-like gallery space, dark but hopeful and filled with possibility. 

Visitors will encounter film, photography, painting, sound, projection mapping, and sculpture, with brand new works alongside gems from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, creating fresh interpretations of the older pieces and a fascinating context for the new works on display. They are all bound together by the notion of getting lost and leaving behind what we know so that we can better respond to the challenges of the rapidly changing world.

It Requires Getting Lost is a unique invitation to embrace the unknown and lose oneself in the experience.