Susan Derges: Many Moons

**Hestercombe Gallery proudly presents a new exhibition featuring works from artist Susan Derges, who is internationally renowned for quite literally inventing new ways of making pictures.**:
**Susan Derges**:_Many Moons _**is showing across all eight spaces at Hestercombe Gallery from the 22nd July to the 22nd October, 2023. **The show thoughtfully reflects on thirty years of printmaking, whilst also drawing on objects and artworks from Hestercombe’s own collections, as well as through the words of two contemporary poets, Fiona Benson and John Wedgwood Clarke.
- ‘Many Moons’_, the artist says, ‘is named after one of the works in the exhibition, suggesting a non-linear view of time where life unfolds in cycles echoing the monthly cycle of the moon as it orbits the earth - influencing tides, seasons, fertility, growth, decay and rebirth in the cosmos as well as here on the earth. Even stars recycle their existence many times through collapsing into massive supernovae that explode out into space populating new stars and constellations. Seaweed in rock pools that are emptied and filled, heated and cooled by the pull of the daily tides also change across the seasons, as much as trees, plants, animal and insect life does. The trajectory of a human life can be viewed through the lens of solar, lunar and planetary influences where their positions, cycles and relationships along with the mythologies connected to them can express subtle influences on an inner life that is as real as any external material unfolding. Similarly, water cycling through the atmosphere transpires from trees, evaporates from oceans and falls back onto the earth forming rivers, lakes and ponds.’

There is the opportunity to purchase three new poetry books, printed specifically for the exhibition.
- Susan Derges, Seed Constellation, Lambda C print, 2020