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Between Two Tides: a collaborative exhibition with Mariele Neudecker

Snell’s work explores the complex and contradictory relationship between civilization and the natural world and our increasingly precarious relationship with it. Work for this two-person exhibition, Between Two Tides, with Mariel Neuedecker arose from a joint research trip in May 2012 to North West Greenland.

The resultant paintings and drawings were based on experiences of the area around Ilulissat, Uummannaq and Disko Island, an area chosen because of the bizarre geological landscape around the Ilulissat glacier. This glacier produces 20 tonnes of ice per day and the calving icebergs that break off can produce tidal waves up to 10 metres high. Snell was inspired by the potential energy of these otherworldly landscapes and was drawn to aspects of human intervention, particularly, how 21st Century living impacts on the far reaches of the planet. Through the experience of meeting the Inuit people and documenting this landscape while travelling by boat, plane and helicopter, Snell went on to produce a body of paintings and drawings. Seven of these works were juxtaposed with Neudecker’s sculptures, films and photographs, and provided two perspectives on a shared response to the experience of the Arctic.

Snell exhibited: 1) Bunkerkanonen (100 x 120cm, 2011); 2) Ice Floe (145 x 198cm, 2012); 3) Inflight (60 x 73cm, 2012); 4) Icebound (150 x 102cm, 2013), all oil on canvas on panel. 5) Awaiting Clearance (pencil on paper, 84 x 66cm, 2012); Out to Dry (pencil and watercolour on paper, 74 x 94cm, 2013); Tipping Point (pencil and watercolour on paper, 69 x 93cm, 2013). There were 1,793 visitors for the exhibition including the event ‘Mariele Neudecker and Rosie Snell in conversation with Steve Joyce’ at Motorcade/FlashParade (15th June 2013) and the presentation on the project by Neudecker and Snell (23rd June 2013). www.motorcadeflashparade.com

Reviews included: www.gazetteseries.co.uk/whats-on/arts/10485187

www.spannerintheworkz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/bv-open-studios-I-am-walrus.html and www.a-n.co.uk:81/interface/whatson/single/3454699/1