As part of the Norman Rea Gallery’s 21/22 programme we are pleased to announce our November Exhibition Dream Land. The exhibition takes inspiration from the rebirth of beauty in Europe from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Dream Land looks at how the injection of ethereal beauty in art throughout the centuries has been reimagined in our new cultural and political landscape. It furthermore understands the subjectivity of the term “Beauty” and it looks at how it has been shaped and changed by our contemporary truths. 

John Keats once wrote that “The Imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream – he awoke and found it truth”. The imagination is inherent in art, it is the foundation of nearly all artistic beauty. The Dream Land exhibition probes the extent to which imagination is truth or whether the truths of today determine the imagination. Dream Land will thus be exploring the ethereal in a reintroduced setting of the modern landscape through artists whose work touches upon these issues.