Glen Onwin exhibition

Went to see the Photography of Glen Owin, at Leeds Art Gallery. Although trained as a painter, he decided to use black and white photography to show some effects of salt evaporation on a wetland by the sea shore.  At the time (1970s) his interest helped to encourage the green movement, in order to conserve these places and traditional sea salt collection. The idea was that the drama of recovery in the landscape, as a metaphor for a journey of loss and restoration was important to him.

He was also interested and undertook a project in 1992 of the Halifax Square chapel theater, which was just being restored sensitively from chapel to a theater. The idea that the theater could be left partially unrestored as ‘decayed fabric’, was a legacy of him and the arts group that were involved.

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