Liberty Quinn, Data Melt
Join us for Data Melt exhibition launch on Saturday, July 18th 12-2pm at SPACE Ilford with refreshments served.
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Data Melt examines how satellite imagery and digital technologies shape our understanding of climate breakdown in remote polar regions. The works explore how ice sheets in retreat are captured from above, and how that visual information is translated, fragmented and reconstructed on its way to becoming an image.
In this new body of work, ice and data merge to reflect on how we look at remote landscapes, ones that for most of us are accessed through our screens. Light, time and the acceleration of environmental change become material, layered into works that hold past, present and future archives of ice.
Polar landscapes are disappearing slowly and out of sight, a form of slow violence caused by human activity. Satellites pass overhead translating frozen terrain into 0s and 1s, streams of data pieced together into images of ice in retreat. What we view is never a whole but a mosaic of multiple captures, they are stitched together into a seamless illusion that is already fractured at its foundation.
The exhibition transforms Project SPACE into an environment that investigates the intersection of art and environmental urgency. The works are configured spatially to reflect on distant polar landscapes at the forefront of climate breakdown, and how technological systems shape the way we witness their transformation.
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Liberty Quinn is an artist and researcher based in London. Her work sits on the intersection of art and science to investigate the breakdowns and shifting of space of the Anthropocene.
She graduated her Masters in 2023 from the Royal College of Art and in 2019 graduated from the University of Brighton and received the Breakthrough Award from the Artist’s Collecting Society (ACS) during her time there. Soon after graduating RCA Liberty had her debut London solo exhibition The Void Went Flash at Hackney Gallery, London.
Selected exhibitions across the UK and Europe include Glitches, Blips and Bumps at Vienna Contemporary Art Space, After at ASC Gallery, Senses at General Assembly, Night Boat at Fitzrovia Gallery, Proximity at Fold Gallery, Two Fold at Southwark Park Gallery, Stack at 67 York Street, and Un/Sense at Christie’s, which showcased the rising talent of artists based in London.
Liberty disseminates her practice based research through presentations, most recently ‘Ice and Data: Investigating Antarctica’s instability through Research and Practice’ at Hugarflug, the annual conference of artistic research at Iceland University of the Arts and ‘Digital Fractures: Visualising Environmental Change in Antarctica’ at Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Art and Changing Environments symposium at the Henry Moore Institute.
She has undertaken two residencies at Wysing Arts Centre and has been featured in publications including Printmaking Today. Liberty has been longlisted for the Zealous Amplify: Environment award and has work in collections in London and Vienna.
Website: www.libertyquinn.net
Instagram: @liberty.quinn
