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The Human Spaceship – Sea of the Edge, Helen Schell Artist preview

Wed, 09 Oct

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Vane, Orbis Community,

The Human Spaceship – Sea of the Edge, Helen Schell Artist preview
The Human Spaceship – Sea of the Edge, Helen Schell Artist preview

Time & Location

09 Oct 2024, 17:00 – 20:00

Vane, Orbis Community,, 65 High St, Gateshead NE8 2AP, UK

About the event

Coinciding with World Space Week, this solo exhibition by British American artist, Helen Schell, is inspired by the challenges of twenty-first century human space exploration. The artworks depict the concept of movement in space conditions, whilst we balance on the edge of our human abilities, both mental and physical.


Within the context of the current NASA Artemis mission to return humans to the Moon (and Mars) to build permanent settlements, the work examines visual challenges in altered gravity (optical illusions) and concepts of wormholes (theoretical devices which could transport humans through space and time). Schell addresses the mechanisms of human physiology and psychology, employing bold geometric patterns and colour manipulation to ask why matter moves and why humans are compelled to migrate to hostile ‘alien’ worlds when Earth is our natural habitat. The artist employs creativity to unite the arts and sciences, proposing resolutions to these questions. This is further…


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