Emma Gibson: Quicksand
Scarborough Art Gallery
The Crescent, Scarborough YO11 2PW
12 February 2022 – 5 June 2022
The exhibition features a triptych of sculptures which see minuscule grains of sand transformed into megalithic forms, putting this endangered but seemingly ubiquitous material - used to make anything from phone screens to windows, from plastics to paint - quite literally under the microscope. Using micro-3D scanning technology, Gibson worked with The Imaging and Analysis Centre at the Natural History Museum to discover the otherworldly shapes of individual sand grains before recasting them as c...

