Shifting Worlds
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and Meadow Arts present a programme of contemporary art in response to the broad cultural and social significance of Coalbrookdale, ‘birthplace of industry’ and now a World Heritage Site.
Shifting Worlds explores the profound changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution; how, as a result of daring undertakings in this idyllic Shropshire valley, our world shifted forever. Through a series of artistic and academic propositions, the Shifting Worlds programme examines the role of the natural world, technology, and the imagination in the transformation of the landscape and society of Great Britain from the seventeenth century on. The programme engages audiences in a reflection about our industrial past, its impact on our present and prompts thoughts about what happens in its aftermath.
A range of events accompany this exhibition including contributing to artworks, a symposium, artists talks, curators tours and interactive family events.
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Lead image: Faye Claridge, Inventive Offspring. Mixed media. Artist Residency. Meadow Arts & Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust commission 2015. Image courtesy the artist.
Featured Artists
Tony Cragg
Tony Cragg exhibited in Landscape with Machines / Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015. Image: Tony Cragg, Minister, 1994.…
Richard Long
Richard Long exhibited in Landscape with Machines / Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015. Image: Richard Long, Windmill Hill…
Nathan Tromans
Nathan Tromans exhibited in Landscape with Machines / Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015. Image: Nathan Tromans, Untitled, Coalbrookdale,…
Michael Landy
Michael Landy exhibited in Landscape with Machines / Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015. Image: Michael Landy, H.2.N.Y. Gadget…
Martin Parr
Martin Parr exhibited in Landscape with Machines / Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015. Image: Father & Son, Brian…
Marchand & Meffre
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre exhibited in In Ruins, Witley Court, 2019, and Landscape with Machines / Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of…
John Davies
John Davies exhibited in Landscape with Machines / Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015. Image: John Davies, Viaduct, Stockport,…
Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller exhibited in Landscape with Machines, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015. Image: Jeremy Deller, The Last of the…
Faye Claridge
Faye Claridge exhibited in Village Green Screen Hereford, Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, 2018; Village Green Screen Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury Folk…
David Nash
David Nash exhibited in Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015, commissioned by Meadow Arts & Ironbridge Gorge Museum…
Clare Mitten
Clare Mitten exhibited in Landscapes with Machines, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015. Image: Clare Mitten, Carousel, 2011. Gouache on…
Alison Wilding
Alison Wilding exhibited in Landscape with Machines (2015). Image: Alison Wilding, Her Furnace, 1987. Patinated copper and bronze. Private…
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