'The Mind In the Cave'42cm x 59cm : Inks & markers on card
Modern Palaeolithic - An Exhibition by Bruce Rimell
Leeds College of Art & Design, Nov-Dec 2009
Modern Palaeolithic is an ongoing series of works which springs from a long-standing personal interest in Palaeolithic imagery and draws upon insights into the archetypal hunter-gatherer mode of life which forms the majority time-period of human evolution. This series is to be exhibited at Leeds College of Art & Design, Leeds, UK, throughout the months of November and December 2009.
Drawing from archaeological data, the findings of specialists such as Lewis-Williams and Henshilwood, and from personal visits to Palaeolithic sites such as Altamira, Ekain and Creswell Crags, this exhibition explores the experiential, mythical and cosmogonical motifs thought to have been understood by the cultures of the Upper Palaeolithic from the Atlantic coast of Western Europe to Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia. The work in this project is intended to evoke an ancient sense of the hunter gatherer in the mind of the modern viewer, seeking to resonate with an evocative remembrance through a body of work in a variety of media, aiming not so much to stimulate discussion but to bring about a quiet commemoration of what has passed and to make a connection with the earliest human expressions.
Drawing from archaeological data, the findings of specialists such as Lewis-Williams and Henshilwood, and from personal visits to Palaeolithic sites such as Altamira, Ekain and Creswell Crags, this exhibition explores the experiential, mythical and cosmogonical motifs thought to have been understood by the cultures of the Upper Palaeolithic from the Atlantic coast of Western Europe to Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia. The work in this project is intended to evoke an ancient sense of the hunter gatherer in the mind of the modern viewer, seeking to resonate with an evocative remembrance through a body of work in a variety of media, aiming not so much to stimulate discussion but to bring about a quiet commemoration of what has passed and to make a connection with the earliest human expressions.
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