Brilliant Cloud

28 October – 19 December 2010
at Sir James Matthews Building, 157-187 Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 7NN

"Brilliant Cloud is the name given to boredomresearch’s latest work, in which hundreds of bands of vibrant colour combine to create cloud-like formations. Inspired by patterns formed in agate (a form of volcanic quartz) they are neither cloud nor rock but play with the space between these two very opposite substances."

Collaborating as boredomresearch, Southampton-based Vicky Isley and Paul Smith make artworks inspired by the diversity that exists in nature. Their practice uses computer modelling techniques to explore the creative potential of diversity. Inspired by pattern formations such as the marks on butterfly wings, boredomresearch create new, intricate and diverse forms of intrigue and beauty. In many of their artworks they have employed artificial techniques to bring these forms to life, creating works that unfold in real time.

Also included in the exhibition are boredomresearch’s latest software objects, Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs – a world populated with mysterious flying life forms called Whirligigs, inspired by birds of paradise, flower petals and mechanical flying machines. As time passes, unique Whirligigs are created with new forms, colours and their own song. Each visitor gets to see just one slice from the immense diversity explored over time.

Millais Off-Site Projects, Part of Southampton Solent University, presents a contemporary visual arts programme which supports and promotes artists and innovative exhibitions around the city of Southampton and Southampton Solent University Campus.