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HEADLINE: “Raw Sky” - local artists' exhibition of astronomical art at Rugby Art Gallery & Museum.

SUB-HEADING: The wonder of the night sky made visible in art.

EXHIBITION DATES: Tuesday 19th August 2025 - Saturday 6th September.

WHERE: Floor One Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Little Elborow Street, Rugby, CV21 3BZ

PRESS CONTACT: Mark Tweedie 07851 331800 https://marktweedie.uk/contact

  

Clint Hamilton and Mark Tweedie invite you to the unveiling of their new exhibition, Raw Sky, at The Floor One Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum running from Tuesday 19th August to Saturday 6th September. Their work depicts the wonder of the night sky in unusual and imaginative ways using mixed media, cyanotypes, poetry, photography, sketching and photogravure etchings.

Clint Hamilton's work focuses on time, space and connection. The moon and its many themes feature heavily within his current practice which he uses to explore our waning relationship with our constant satellite, the environment and ourselves. His works included in the Raw Sky exhibition includes examples of experimenting with the elements of drawing and camera-less photography techniques and their historical significance with capturing the image of the moon along with addition of sculptural collage.

Mark Tweedie's work straddles the gulf between art and science with high-resolution photographs, lunar sketches, poetry and an artist's book of 3.2 metres in length which visualises the scale of the distance between the Moon and the Earth. In addition to this, he is showing photogravures of deep sky objects beyond our solar system. Photogravure is a modern take on the ancient printing method of etching which uses photosensitive plates to make an etched original which can then be inked and passed through a high-pressure printing press.

The exhibition runs from Tuesday 19th August and Saturday 6th September (gallery opens 10am - 5pm Tuesday - Friday and 10am - 4pm on Saturdays) in the Floor One Gallery at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.

There will be a reception on Saturday 23rd August from 1.30 - 3.30pm to which all are invited.

On Saturday 30th August at 2pm in the Floor One Gallery there will be a talk by Mark about his work.