Artwork
 Baltic Coast: Kaliningrad Oblast Liminal World Playgrounds of War Baltic Coast: Estonia Baltic Coast: Latvia

Baltic Coast: Poland

 Baltic Coast: Lithuania

Outside Time

 Frozen Sea On the Beach Airbus Scottish Landscapes Dedale Tree Time Telling Tales in A Garden Camera Obscura Pathways to Memory

 

 



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All images are copyrighted.
Copyright Notice		 October 2010, Zelenogradsk, Svetlogorsk, Baltiysk,
Kaliningrad city (Russia).

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophical wreck.
Immanuel Kant

 Liminal World is an ongoing project where
Glover searches for locations round the world
whichcan convey the threshold between inner
and outer worlds, time and impermanency.
Glover's small wooden box, with a pinhole
at one end and roll film at the other, provides
the means for her playful and yet meditative
relationship to the world.

These works have been selected by Shirley
Read to bring together specific moments of
liminality so that we may ask ourselves not
only about the nature of photographic
representation and the role of the photographer
in this but about our relationship to time and our
need to step out of the rush of contemporary life
in order to understand it.

Limited edition prints are available from the
Hoopers Gallery.		 Playgrounds of War tells a story of the remaindered
aesthetics of past wars, avoided wars and possible
wars. These photographs deal with the monumental
and emotional detritus of abandoned military bases,
drawing upon Gina's own childhood memories and
her continuing personal sense of vulnerability in the
face of military force.

In joining her investigation of decaying military sites
- secret airfields, coastal forts, emplacements, and
nuclear missile sites - we uncover the traces of their
past destructive power and also, more positively,
how such places eventually succumb to the corros-
-ive but rejuvenating power of time and nature.

To order prints, please contact Gina Glover.		 June 2007, Estonia - From Tallin to Hiiummaa Island
A land with no distant places.		 Over a series of visits to the Baltic countries
of Lithuania, Poland, Estonia and Latvia, Gina
Glover, accompanied by Amandine Alessandra,
devised a photographic project to capture her
sense of the European Union's new frontier.
The result is a project entitled 'Objects of Colour: Photographs from the Baltic Coast', which, as it
developed, became a collaboration between Gina
and writer/poet Kay Syrad.

This resulted in a limited edition publication featur-
-ing Gina's photographs and Kay's poems. Some
of these photographs are shown in this and the next
three galleries. Unbeknownst to Gina, as she was taking pictures for this project, Amandine was tak-
-ing pictures for a very different purpose - document-
-ing Gina. Her project - entitled 'Follow' - is a series
of images of a photographer at work, capturing a photographer's singular purposefulness against
a shifting visual scene - successfully capturing that unusual senseof time when an artist concentrates
her attention on the task in hand in an unfamiliar place.

 February 2007, Poland’s Western Pomerania
Where the wind breaks the silence of the ice.		 October 2006, Lithuania’s Curonian Spit
A 100 kilometre long stretch of furrowed dunes
and scented forests.

 First shown at Trace Gallery, Weymouth, March 2002, Outside Time is a series of pinhole photographs with accompanying text written by friends and family present when the pictures were taken. They were asked either to respond to the particular image or their time spent in the location. There is an artists' book from this series that can be purchased from the gallery: www.traceisnotaplace.com North Wales, Prestatyn North Miami Beach, USA 2006 These 'through the porthole' visual effects
of flying can often be spectacular but our increasingly crowded human presence
above the clouds raises questions about
the environmental sustainability of life
beneath them. 		These Scottish landscapes deal with the narrat-
-ives of land and wind and play with notions of
time outside the metered existence of the everyday.		 ‘Dedale’ is a series of photographs featuring the historic Gresigne forest in Tarn, France.
This exhibition presents the forest as a metaphor
of the mind which, like a forest, is in a constantly evolving process of change and growth. Like all
forms of change this can be frightening, but it is ultimately an essential part of natural growth and decay. 		Paul Valery expresses in his 'A dialogue about trees' in 1944:

The tree and love: in our minds the two can unite to become one idea.
Each grows from an imperceptible germ, becomes stronger, expands, branches out; but to the same extent
that it reaches skyward (or 'blissward'),
it must become rooted in a sphere invisible to us: in our very being.

 

 Using a pinhole camera Gina Glover takes the viewer on a journey through a series of gardens from her past, now inhabited by a new generation of children. The camera obscura is one of photography’s
earliest devices for freezing time. Centuries ago,
it was observed that a pinpoint source of light in
a darkened room would form an image on a fac-
-ing surface and the camera obscura as the ‘room’ came to be called was used by many a renaiss-
-ance artist as a drawing aid.

Glover has transformed her garden summer
house into such a camera obscura.

Victor H. Carroll 2003

 If we hope to live not just from moment to moment,
but in true consiousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to
find meaning in our lives.

Bruno Bettelheim