Visual Art

Visual art comes alive at Kendal

Come and enjoy the visual arts exhibitions at Kendal Mountain Festival where we work to platform a incredible range of local and national artists. It's a privilege to showcase their incredible work and we hope you enjoy this opportunity to see their work up close. Dive in and discover each artist’s contribution to the ‘Outdoor’ genre and their personal celebration of landscape, nature and place.

Jolynna Sinanan - Infrastructuring Everest

Infrastructuring Everest: 30 Years of Development and Change on the Roof of the World

Mount Everest has been the pinnacle of fantasy and desire for conquest, adventure and achievement for 100 years. This exhibition showcases the uneasy relationship between development and tourism in the Khumbu (Mount Everest) region, Nepal over the past three decades. Through collaboration with high altitude trekking and mountaineering guides, 80 images have been captured through research, tourist and smartphone photography in destinations along the trek to Everest Base Camp and on commercial mountaineering expeditions. The exhibition offers perspectives of changes to everyday life, aspirations and environmental knowledge.

This exhibition is FREE and runs from the 6th November to the 30th November 2024. 

Location - Brewery Arts Centre, 122a Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4HE. 

About Jolynna Sinanan

Jolynna is a lecturer of social and digital anthropology at The University of Manchester. With an interdisciplinary background in anthropology and development studies her research focuses on digital technologies in relation to regionally comparative mobilities, family relationships, work and gender. Her current region of focus is Nepal and she has previously conducted ethnographic studies on Trinidad, Australia and Cambodia.

Jolynna is currently working on The Everest Economy: 50 years of tourism in the Khumbu. 

MONICA METSERS

‘SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS’ - Lake District Mountain Paintings

Monica is a prize winning Painter. Working from her Kendal studio in layers of oil paint to build up a dreamy and sculptural effect, she depicts the landscapes she regularly walks in, exploring the place between seeing, feeling, experience and memory.

These large-scale mountain paintings have been produced specifically for this exhibition with Kendal Mountain Festival, hoping to capture something of the otherworldliness and majesty of these stunning places.

This exhibition is FREE and runs from the 6th November to the 30th November 2024.

Location - Brewery Arts Centre, 122a Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4HE.

www.monicametsers.com

Instagram @monicametsersart

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