DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery is inviting families to enter an enchanting interactive garden inspired by nature and state-of-the-art technology. The Tree, The Butterfly and the Caterpillar by artists Aether & Hemera is the latest family friendly exhibition to join the highly successful Generation Tour.
The interactive exhibition uses Xbox Kinect technology, enabling visitors’ movements to affect a multi-coloured field of butterflies. Plus birdhouses will play melodic sounds as they respond to peoples’ presence and visitors can use a magic watering can to make a ‘pea tree’ grow.
The previous 2 Generation Tour exhibitions, Generation AIR and Generation NOISE, have been highly successful in bringing new family audiences into 4 contemporary art galleries in the North of England. It is hoped that this exhibition and Musical Chairs, another brand new exhibition, will do the same. Generation AIR saw the Durham venue’s busiest October since its reopening 14 years ago.
Lucy Jenkins, Art Exhibitions Curator at the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery said, ‘The artists Aether & Hemera have done a brilliant job of creating a new exhibition that will capture the imagination of families as well as being outstanding artistically.’
‘We look forward to seeing many more families in the gallery and promise them a very warm welcome.’
Gloria Ronchi of Aether & Hemera added, ‘We’re so pleased to be chosen to create the exhibition for the Generation Tour so the work can reach the widest possible age range.’
The Tree, The Caterpillar and The Butterfly continues until 10 January. It will be followed by Musical Chairs another interactive Generation Tour exhibition offering a new take on the old parlour game. Musical Chairs is showing soon at Central Art Gallery, Ashton-under-Lyne.
For more information about the Generation Tour, visit generationtour.org.uk.