Clinging
A new video installation by
Andrew and Caitlin Webb-Ellis

Friday 3rd June
6.00pm – 9.30pm
Saturday 4th June
11.00am – 4.00pm
Admission is free

www.webb-ellis.org

'Clinging' is a powerful new video installation produced by Andrew and Caitlin Webb-Ellis, who have been resident at Crescent Arts for the past eight months. The work is presented as a three-screen projection which the spectator is free to explore at will with no predetermined viewing time. The Coliseum in Whitby is a venue which might be associated with more conventional cinema screenings of feature films. 'Clinging' confounds such expectations by allowing the viewer to move within the installation and enter or leave at any time. The work is a portrait rather than a narrative, and seeks to draw the visitor in to the centre of the work and thereby question the relationship between subject and viewer. The work draws on the inner conflict and recurring struggle of human existence and is both personal and universal.

Andrew and Caitlin Webb-Ellis are based in Whitby and work from a studio at Crescent Arts. This summer they are exhibiting at South Square Gallery in Bradford, Axis Arts Centre in Cheshire and Water Tower Art Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria.