Exhibition 'In Another Place'

In Another Place  is a celebration of contemporary art produced and presented by venues in the East Midlands.

10 regional organisations invited visual artists to present original artworks on advertising billboards in a range of locations for 6 weeks. Transforming these everyday hoardings into a vibrant display across the region, In Another Place aims to bring art to audiences, in places where normally they would see advertising.

Mandy Lee Jandrell was commissioned to produce The Collection’s billboard, located in the Lincolnshire town of Gainsborough. This enabled The Collection to explore how it develops its collections through commissions and exhibitions and transforms access to historic/permanent collections through engagement with contemporary art. The aim of the billboard exhibition was to will raise profile of The Collection with an audience that is potentially unfamiliar with it and one that does not necessarily visit Lincoln very often or art galleries.

Jandrell’s billboard exhibition complements an exhibition hosted by The Collection and Usher Gallery, which aims to relate the story of aircraft development, production and operations in the county and the impact and contribution Lincolnshire had on the successful outcome of the First World War. The image produced responds to shifting perceptions of landscape enabled by aerial photography which began to be used extensively in reconnaissance missions in the first world war. The interrogates the fragmentation of representation and shifts in perception as a result of viewing landscape from a dramatically new perspective. The work produces aims to draw our attention to the subjective act of interpretation (of images/the world around us) and makes reference to the role of women in the strategic interpretation of military reconnaissance imagery in the RAF. The project was commissioned by Lincolnshire County Council for The Collection to respond the centenary of the formation of the RAF. Jandrell's response focussed on the role of women in RAF reconnaissance and as Special Operations Executives in the second World War.

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