Rob Carter's Travelling Still at the Forster Gallery 10 - 19 Apr

Exhibition Description:

This solo exhibition and launch of Rob Carter's Travelling Stills book, features a dazzling collection of images and is the culmination of five years' experimental photography. These works are part of an ongoing series and convey the feeling of movement, intending to represent the experience of travelling itself. The movements of his camera stretching the subject into striations of seductively beautiful abstaction, whilst retaining the spacial relationship between the artist and his subject. The artist has travelled around the world in search of his subject, from downtown Tokyo to the shores of Sardinia, from the tulip fields of Holland to the beaches of Barbados.

Carter's Travelling Stills have won bronze medal (2003) and silver medal (2005) in The Royal Photographic Society's International Print Exhibition, a 2nd place Merit of Excellence at the International Colour Awards, and a Highly Commended in the Creative Review Photography Awards in 2006.

Rob Carter is part of the highly acclaimed husband-and-wife duo Rob and Nick Carter, who's works has been described as "painting with light", a peculiar hybrid of photography and painting that creates unique studies of light in motion. They have exhibited widely in the US and Europe. Their work is collected by Elton John, Simon Fuller, Matthew Williamson, Kevin Spacey and Jude Law among others, as well as being held in many public and private collections.

Description:

ROB CARTER, Traveling Still. Tulip Fields XXIX, 2007, hand printed cibachrome print

Full Contact Details:

The Gallery in Cork Street, 28 Cork Street, London, W1,
FORSTER,
1 Chapel Place,
Rivington Street,
London,
EC2A 3DQ,
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E info(at)forstergallery.com
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