'WHERE 2'
Alison Bickmore, Julia Dennis, Penny Hamblin, Julia Hoyle

Alison Bickmore showed a collection of interviews with the residents and owners of the few remaining bungalows still standing on the rugged landscape on the shores of the Solent. The screen was split into three, with the interviewee in the centre; the other screens relayws images of each person's home and sweeping shots of the beach itself. The result looked like a series of moving postcards, affectionate, yet haunting.

Julia Dennis' work investigated how we create and see fantasy and reality, challenging ideas on perception and pretence, revealing different levels of truth and imagination. Her work explored a wide range of fantasy furniture, video and photography. The 'girlish' quality to her pieces, “reveal a sense of association with pre-adolescence; a time of self-discovery, sexual experience and exploration of the body. My work celebrates this experience without the shame that can often come with the onset of adolescence, revealing a sense of empowerment, independence and self-worth,” she explained.

Penny Hamblin's idea of 'where' was also one of time as she used fragments of images to try and 'trap' aspects of a particular moment. Her work usually begins with drawings, which are then photographed and projected onto fabric and items relevant to her personal history. The finished print was made up of repeated and layered images, reminiscent of a dream or the way that memories fade in and out and overlap one another.

Julie Hoyle's preoccupation lay at the borders of the natural and technological; her current work attempted to make sense of cyberspace - a place that exists, that can be visited, an almost endless landscape to be explored, which has no real physical presence. “Cyberspace has been explained as an extension of the mind, a dream world, and it is this remarkable place that I am trying to locate in my light and shadow box installations and hybrid ink-jet and screen prints,” she explained.