Digital Evolution

New work created by Gwen Stevenson with support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Individual Artist’s Digital Evolution Award. Working with Unity Games Engine, Projection Mapping & Motion Capture software to create a site specific installation that provides the visitor with an accessible immersive experience without the need for wearing headsets, entering dark spaces or following complicated menus. This digital media coexists within the same physical light space as the more traditional media responding to and reflecting it. It is not a separate entity in a darkened black box. The exhibition also gives a personal insight into the creative process, the evolution of a work and questions the role of visitor as passive viewer or active participant.

About the Project

This project showcases new work created by Gwen Stevenson with support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Individual Artist’s Digital Evolution Award.

It is shown at ‘insight’, a collaborative exhibition by five Northern Ireland based established visual artists and a writer, showing at The Oriel Gallery, Clotworthy House, Antrim Castle Gardens, Randalstown Road, Antrim, BT41 4LH.

The featured artists are

Helen Bradbury – Painting

Andrea Spencer – Glass

Gwen Stevenson – Digital Media

Helen Hanse – Stone Carving

Frank Holmes – Drawing/Collage

Evan Sloan – Contextual Text/Poetry

The exhibition is designed to give the visitor personal insight into each creative process and the evolution of a work. The interplay between the artists in the development of this exhibition showcases paintings, drawings, glass, digital media and carving linked through installation and poetic response. It is running daily from Tuesday, 17 January to Friday, 10 March 2023