Jerwood Open Forest is an artist-centred initiative established by Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England.
Keith Harrison's 'Joyride' transports us from the car park on the site of the now flattened Longbridge car plant to Tackeroo at Cannock Chase Forest. His dusky car journey invites us to acknowledge the role of the car, in terms of both daytime and the nocturnal recreational activities it transports us to.
This group exhibition brings together work by the five artists selected for the R&D stage of Jerwood Open Forest in 2016: Rebecca Beinart, Magz Hall, Keith Harrison, David Rickard and David Turley.
They have expanded on their original proposals to produce new bodies of work spanning installation, film, ceramics and performance. Whilst projects are diverse in terms of process and materials, they are united by themes such as loss, legacy and transformation.