John Forster

John Forster

j.forster@glos.ac.uk

Recent Selected Exhibitions

Nov/Jan 2002/2003 Vital Arts, Barts Hospital, London

Mar/Apr 2002 Artspace Gallery, Stroud

Nov/Jan 2001/2002 Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Lancs

October 2001 291 Gallery, London

Aug/Sept 2001 Cupola Gallery, Sheffield

July/Aug 2001 Eyepoppers, SWArts selected exhibition, Gloucester

Dec/ Jan 2000 The Workstation, Sheffield

Sept/Oct 2000 Arthaven Gallery, Exeter

June/July 1999 Fresh Air 4 Outdoor Sculpture Show, Quenington

Mar/April 1999 Fade Away and Radiate, Dundee Contemporary Arts

Aug/Sept 1998 Sturge, National Waterways Museum

June/July 1997 Fresh Air 3 Outdoor Sculpture Show, Quenington

April/Mar 1997/8 'Sympathetic Magic' - set for dance, Islington International Dance Festival, London and Touring

May/June 1995 Manfred Hausmann Gallery, Hanover

October 1994 'I Leonardo' Multi-media performance, Cheltenham Festival of Literature

Sept/Nov 1994 Light Fantastic, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery

May 1994 A Filmic Text, multiple fax installation for International Readers and Writers Festival, Birmingham

The structures are determined with reference to fibonnaci numerical

progressions and make reference to the shapes and relationships that are

present in natural phenomena and patterns of growth

The works are single colour (they do not flash or twinkle) and this preserves

their spacial integrity, whilst also helping to distance them from their more

usual purpose.

Works are produced that challenge our preconceptions and propose

alternative experience of location. Standing amongst or passing through the

pieces, enveloped by the lights, there is a strong sense of spacial ambiguity,

and this acts as a catalyst to a range of possible readings that have a more

personal dimension.