Size Matters
1 April – 20 May 2006

Size Matters explores the ways in which contemporary British artists have experimented with scale, altering the function and meaning of objects by changing their size.

The exhibition brings together sculpture, painting, film, photography and installation. Many of the works feature recognisable objects that have been enlarged, or reduced. Presented together in the gallery, these works create a familiar yet strangely distorted world which is by turns beautiful, amusing and unsettling.

The artists featured in the show have explored scale in different ways. Some have transformed familiar everyday objects, such as a plastic air freshener, into something bizarre. Several have explored the world of science and technology. Others have found inspiration in the miniaturised forms that already exist in our culture, such as souvenirs and toys.

Size Matters features over 30 works from the Arts Council Collection and includes major artists such as Martin Creed, Cornelia Parker, Michael Landy and Rose Finn-Kelcey.

Image: In Heliotrope, 1990, by Eric Bainbridge.