At the Foot of the Mountain
2011
Tangent Gallery, Bentley
There is a difference between mountains and mountain-ness. That difference is one defined by distance and location. A real mountain is a place with a climate, native specie, geological history and its own special shape. Mountain-ness, however, exists wherever people are. Mountains permeate the art, music, media, myths, histories and minds of all cultures regardless of local topography. Perhaps by simply existing somewhere, mountains can enrich us, and give us a sense of place: a ‘home’ defined by opposition to a ‘place in the distance’. That distant place might be a mountain, desert, sea, island, tundra or outer space, and that’s where we derive our settings for mythology, our perspective on the size of the planet, and our sense of longing for the far away. SC
Photographs (c) 2011 Sheridan Coleman.
The Mountains-in-the-Background Travelling Gallery, 2011, Sheridan Coleman, paper, photographs, and forged ‘artefacts’ from Uffizi Gallery, NGL, Tate Britain, Alte Nationalgalerie
Detail, The Mountains-in-the-Background Travelling Gallery
Detail, The Mountains-in-the-Background Travelling Gallery
Detail, The Mountains-in-the-Background Travelling Gallery
Detail, The Mountains-in-the-Background Travelling Gallery
Detail, The Mountains-in-the-Background Travelling Gallery
Detail, The Mountains-in-the-Background Travelling Gallery
Detail, The Mountains-in-the-Background Travelling Gallery
Mountaintop Castles, 2011, Sheridan Coleman, pencil on paper
Neighbourhood Mountaineering, 2011, Sheridan Coleman, performance/documentation
performed in Mount Lawley, Mount Claremont, Tuart Hill, Mount Hawthorn, Mount Pleasent and Mount Henry Bridge
At the Foot of the Mountain, 2011, Sheridan Coleman, digital collage
Dr. Sheridan Hart 