Heavier Than Air - The Ferens Art Gallery 15 November 2003 to 11 January 2004

The Ferens Art Gallery is delighted to host a new exhibition Heavier Than Air, by Glasgow artist Tom McKendrick. Heavier Than Air is a dramatic installation piece that mixes kinetic sculpture, painting, light and sound to strong atmospheric effect. It focuses on the design and purpose of aircraft in times of war and peace and explores emotions associated with flight.

Over the years McKendrick has drawn much inspiration from the industrial past of his native Clydebank. In this show he depicts dismantled aircraft, including those used in World Wars I and II. A series of abstract paintings explore and celebrate the design of aircraft while highlighting the fragility of the outer casings of lightweight metal, battered and bruised through use.

Further drawings dwell on the terrible and claustrophobic role of the ball turret gunner, curled foetal-like beneath the main body of the plane. The sculptures also illustrate an imaginative perspective on the ingenuity of engineering and design which has enabled flight.

Complex and robust engines are exposed and embellished in large-scale ceramic structures, synchronised in motion by small hidden motors.

The portryal of the immense power encapsulated in the mechanics of these aircraft is furthered by the inclusion of a squadron of tiny, vulnerable, latex airmen whose feet are strapped directly onto the engines. Please contact Christine Brady, Assistant keeper of Art (Exhibitions) for further information on 613902.

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