Visitors to Durham Art Gallery are to be taken on road trip across America as the North East’s Cath Campbell unveils her new exhibition.
The artist, who studied fine art at Newcastle University, has seen her work displayed across the world.
But this January her latest show, Canary yellow with royal blue, will arrive in Durham, leading film fans on a dreamlike journey that follows in the footsteps of beat poets like Jack Kerouac.
“The phrase Canary yellow with royal blue is part of a description of the location of the Six Gallery, San Francisco, which in 1955 hosted a poetry reading by a group of radical West Coast writers, who later became known as the Beat Generation,” said Cath, from Newcastle, whose exhibition includes two collections of films, projected onto free-standing screens.
“Each film is about an individual state, and is a collage of clips from amateur travel videos found on YouTube. The dialogue in each clip is translated by Google automatic captions, and the resulting subtitles are full of slight mistranslations that provide a disquieting and poetic quality to the narrative.”
Canary yellow with royal blue, which is supported by Arts Council England, runs from 23 January until 31 March 2016.
Normal admission charges – of £4.20 for adults, £3.15 for concessions, £2.10 for four to 16-year-olds and free for children under four years – apply.