Enjoy Jacob Rock's 'A Confrontation with the Familiar' at Hereford's Museum and Art Gallery (From Hereford Times)

Enjoy Jacob Rock's 'A Confrontation with the Familiar' at Hereford's Museum and Art Gallery

10:30am Wednesday 4th August 2010 in

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ENJOY A Confrontation with the Familiar, an exhibition of multi-media artworks by Hereford teacher Jacob Rock, which can be seen at the city’s Museum and Art Gallery until September 1.

Jacob, who teaches at Hereford College of Arts, creates artworks collected from the roadside.

He recycles these castoffs of contemporary culture, bringing the parts together in a new form with a new meaning.

The artworks have at their core the need to explore these objects and examine what we perceive as unaesthetic and throwaway.

Over the past eight months, Jacob Rock has been working on a research project focused on the collections at Herefordshire Council’s Resource and Learning Centre in Friar Street, Hereford, exploring and recording the artefacts with the aim of producing new artworks inspired by the research.

The current exhibition is a multimedia installation including 15-metre long friezes, colourful silhouettes projected on to the walls and ceilings, animal totem sculptures and displays of found objects.

“My subject matter is taken from the external world around me whose elements and imagery, its bits and pieces, are given a new uncharacteristic twist and change of aspect to take on a new meaning,”

explains Jacob.

Opening times are 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday, August 30. The gallery is closed on other Mondays.