Julian Oates’ eighth solo exhibition.
The Pillars of Creation
A celebration of the universe’s ability to create and destroy.
First photographed by the Hubble telescope, and recently unveiled in detail by the James Webb telescope, are the Pillars of Creation. Located deep in the primordial soup of space, they are immense gas clouds littered with galaxies filled with alien suns, planets and moons. This section of space, lightyears in scale, is now dust. The Pillars of Creation were decimated by a supernova thousands of years ago. We are only just seeing the light from it now.
In my latest works you will see glimpses of the universe, from deep space to the planet earth, depictions of planet surfaces and the churning, twisting dust and gas clouds of space. These works are a celebration of how simultaneously important and insignificant we are. I find great comfort and inspiration knowing that we are all at the mercy of an entity we do not understand. It is our privilege to enjoy the passage of time as much as we can and to learn about ourselves and others as we go.
– Julian Oates
