Solo exhibition: a silence that never was. Gallery North, Newcastle, UK. February 2012.

A Silence That Never Was, a large-scale solo exhibition, included some 250 individual works composed as a multiple-piece installation. \ud \ud See http://gn.northumbria.ac.uk/gn/exhibitions/robertcclark/ \ud and http://gn.northumbria.ac.uk/gn/exhibitions/robertcclark/virtualtour\ud \ud The exhibition was reviewed in Peel Magazine: http://gn.northumbria.ac.uk/gn/gnpeel/rclarkreview11\ud \ud The research installation built up a series of cross-associations between different creative genres, historic traditions and theoretical themes.\ud \ud A central narrative was built up from a series of some 150 A3 photographs overworked with paint and drawing. These formed a linear development like a series of film noir stills. A Silence That Never Was thus explored ideas derived form 20th century film and literature (the use of multiple overlapping narratives, cross-associational poetics, alter ego personas, flash-backs and dream sequences, juxtapositions of factual documentary and fictional reverie)