Your Position as Much as Your Environment is an international group show that explores the way in which people place themselves  in their environment, both in terms of where one physically exists and how one positions oneself psychologically.  The show features the work of artists Karl Burke, Stephen Brandes, Graham Gussin, Runa Islam, Andrew Mania, Denis McNulty and Mark Orange.

Two film works by the aritist Mark Orange The Morning After and Rise and Fall are on view.  These two works are part of his trilogy of short films that use New York City as a platform to explore the way narrative forms and mythologies shape our experience of architectural space.

Much of Andrew Mania’s work, which can be seem in the large gallery on this floor, considers his relationship to his parents’ status as refugees from the Second World War. His Polish mother arrived in Britain via India after the Russian invasion of her homeland. His father, a German paratrooper, was brought to Britain in 1945 as a prisoner of war after surrendering in Guernsey. Mania’s up-bringing was filled with tales of his parents’ extraordinarily turbulent experiences, which feed the complex and personal allegories he creates in his work.

Two films by another UK based artist, Graham Gussin are also on view on this floor.  Night Street Touch and Spill like much of Gussin’s work explore our perception of our physical landscape. Gussin is very conscious that our understanding of the world is manipulated and transformed by a complex layering of mass communications and consumer culture. Often his work suggests a sense of displacement, playing on our desire to be somewhere else, in a different time or space.  Spill was funded by Arts Council England, London with the support of Film London Artists' Moving Image Network.

The show also includes Runa Islam’s 16mm film First Day of Spring, which can be seen in the last gallery on this floor.  For this film a group of rickshaw drivers were choreographed to simply sit and do nothing in antithesis of their daily labour.

Much of Stephen Brandes work stems from a visual diary he made in 1999 during a recreation of his grandmother's flight through Europe to escape from the pogroms in Romania in 1913. His work, which can be seen in the large gallery on this floor, has since developed into a series of elaborate visual fictions in various forms, from small scruffy paintings to vast highly detailed drawings which interweave this history with his own experience and invention.

Two separate artists, both of whose work incorporates elements of audio, will be conducting off-site projects as part of this exhibition.  In the weeks leading up to the exhibition Dennis McNulty played a number of low-key concerts in the homes of Sligo residents.  For this ‘Anti-Tour” Dennis was particularly interest in meeting people who had moved to take up employment in Sligo and his work involved the creation of a sound-track inspired by and specific to their accommodation and its view of the town and county.  An installation piece by Dennis which uses recordings from some of the Anti-Tour performances is situated in the small gallery on the ground floor.