About PLATFORM
Featuring emerging as well as established artists, PLATFORM 01 is the first in a series of shows intended to give artists from the Midlands and surrounding areas a venue in which to display their work and to create connections between themselves, their art, and the community of collectors who live and work in the area. We believe that experienced and new collectors should be able to form relationships between themselves and the artists and galleries in the Birmingham area, and that Fine Art should be accessible to all. Additionally, all commission on artworks sold at PLATFORM 01 will go to our chosen charity, Breast Cancer Care, to help play a part in beating breast cancer.
Under the remit of Nature as a topic, the exhibit shows the relationship between the artist, the work, and the observer as interpreter, through both personal experience and the subjectivity of how each individual interprets the natural world. For both the observer as well as the artist, interpretation and interaction happen both within the medium and when the work is viewed when complete.
The role of the natural world in the lives of individuals in the 21st century is changing at an exponential rate, as is the relationship of the visual arts to environmental issues. Whether benevolent or threatening, in both urban and rural settings, the natural world affects the way we live in an increasingly important way. Technology is now inextricably linked to the natural environment as we look for new and better ways to power our lives, and the implications of tech-natural hybridity only serve to remind us of how dependent we are upon the natural world for our energy, our food, our homes, and even our artistic inspiration.