Landscape views

Each artist in the group show Open Range comes to the subject of contemporary landscape from a very different angle - and as the title might suggest, that's just the point. There's Lou McGill whose series of industrial landscapes have been inspired by Fritz Lang's dystopian silent movie Metropolis; Mike Shepherd's 'elemental' works, which follow the intense monochrome style of Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams and Josef Hoflehner; and Mariah Skellorn who constructs her own futuristic hybrid trees out of bread rolls and mini Babybels. It's a diverse concoction of artists, approaches, techniques and, of course, issues which demonstrates that a 'landscape' image can mean many things these days.