SRG Bennett - Same Planet, Different World
41 x 51 cm, Giclée Print (Edition of 10), 2020
A data visualisation of the wilding of London. Lighter pixels show lower levels of air pollution in March 2020 compared to March 2019. The image is a digital collage of air pollution data, map imagery and microscopic photos of the dirt and ice on the surfaces of vehicle windows in North London.
SGR Bennett
Stephen explores the intersection of art, science and policy. His starting point is how data increasingly penetrates our everyday lives whilst remaining abstract, vast, disembodied and unknowing. This, combined with globalisation and the growing complexity of society, is contributing to citizens feeling dislocated from public decision-making. In response, he seeks out information from online sources and then materialise it in analogue, organic and sensorially diverse ways. By making scientific evidence something that can be visualised, touched and played with, he aims to empower people. Stephen’s multimedia works play with geography and scale, moving between microscopic and macroscopic levels. With domestic and suburban motifs blown up to evoke planetary phenomena, he draws a link between everyday, individual activities and global issues: the personal is political.