Luke Elwes
Refugia
11th September – 10th October, 2007

Refugium/Refugia: Term used in biology to refer to an area where organisms continue to survive through periods of extreme or unfavorable conditions.

With these paintings, Luke Elwes continues to expand the range of his concerns, incorporating his own travels - to the Tibetan Plateau, the Djebel Sarhro mountains in Morocco, and the Mayan sites of Central America - with the conceptual mapping of physical and historical space, and the impact of time and memory on the 'geographical unconscious'.

An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition