Leeds Met Gallery

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Friday 2 March – Thursday 5 April 07 Christopher Campbell | Epoch

Christopher Campbell’s paintings are improbable but believable, creating a world that is fantastical, beautiful, humorous, yet darkly disturbing. They depict England awash in a pseudo apocalyptic environment. Views of a desolate suburbia swathed in unnatural light. Animals venture into view. Horses and livestock normally tethered or penned in roam brazenly. Wildlife encroaches from the shadows and deer unabashed stand in plain sight, ‘posing for portrait’ in the middle of what would normally be a busy street.

Whether the animal kingdom is foraging or just lauding their supremacy, the question of what has happened to the human race remains.

Friday 16 – Saturday 31 March Single Shot

A collection of specially commissioned film and video, single take works, by well known artists and new talent.

While the artists chosen for Single Shot demonstrate a wide diversity of approaches, what they share is a desire to create a work of power and complexity from the most basic cinematic form – the single, unedited shot. Whether humorous or poignant, seductive or disturbing, or indeed all of these things, each work attempts to catch the viewer’s eye and hold it, unblinkingly, until the end.

The final stop on the Single Shot tour is this double header of presentations across the two cities of Leeds and Bradford. As well as encompassing cinemas, galleries and other public sites the gallery presents works in and around Leeds Met University and on the big screen in Millennium Square.