The next themed exhibition at the Sayle Gallery from Friday 10 August to Sunday 2 September features seven renowned local artists turning their hands to Digital Art.
 
The term ‘Digital Art’ is widely interpreted as a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative process – and includes computer and multi-media presentations.
 
Photography is perhaps the most well known and popular form of digital art, and this new exhibition includes both photographs by artists who more usually work in traditional media and also works by traditional artists using digital photography to enhance their finished pieces.
 
Jeremy Paul will be exhibiting photographs taken on his recent trip to the Arctic, and which represent his interest in more abstract landscape and photography rather than his better known wildlife paintings.  Paul Parker, more known for his acrylic and oil paintings of landscapes and motorbikes, has experimented with whimsical digital art.
 
Manos Kalamenios, whose work was featured in the Sayle Gallery’s 8 Degrees Show and who recently graduated with a 1st class BA (Hons) degree  in Fine Arts,  has reproduced his digital images on fine china and glass, emphasising the vibrancy and fragility of both memories and the materials.
 
Myra Gilbert and Charlotte Jane Henry have both approached the theme from different angles, developing digital art from their own original works.  Myra’s current work explores and interprets island landscapes in a domestic context, and she is paying respect to those who have gone before whilst celebrating their world in new, digital, images developed from her own drawings, photographs and monoprints.  Charlotte – an artist and filmmaker – has used this exhibition to show a digitally produced DVD of herself working on an etching, which is both educational and inspirational.
 
Sayle Gallery Artist  Rosi Robinson will  also be taking part and local experimental film-maker Simon Buttimore will also have a piece in the exhibition but true to form he has produced a multimedia work involving both film and ‘found’ pieces – hard to describe but definitely not to be missed.
 
 
Location: The Sayle Gallery, Villa Marina Arcade, 1-3 Harris Promenade, Douglas, IM1 2HN
Opening times: 10am – 5pm Tue – Sat, 1.30 – 4.30pm Sundays, 1pm – 5pm Mondays
Admission: FREE
Telephone: 01624 674557
Website: www.saylegallery.com