NMC CAMPUS - Three talented artists: Douglas Story, Nebulosus Severine and Cubist Scarborough – unveiled their latest work recently at the NMC Campus.

Douglas Story’s gallery contains a collection of stunning photographs of flowers in extreme close-up. He has titled his exhibition ‘Chambers and Landscapes’.

Story captures his subjects using a mixture of technology and natural light or, in his own words, “The scientific approach of jamming the lens into the flower and tripping the shutter. Oh, alright…a little more than that.”

Story has enjoyed photography all his life but his interest peaked with the advent of digital photography.

“When I learned that my spiffy new Nikon could focus as close as ¾”, I was off to the races,” he says.

Story uses a camera with an LCD screen to achieve unusual camera positions and sometimes employs diffusers or reflectors, but he always takes pictures in natural light and uses no digital trickery to alter the images.

“That’s the picture as it came right out of the camera,” he says.

A substance doesn’t have to be illegal for people to become addicted to it – are millions of people around the world utterly dependent on their televisions without even realising it?

This is the question Nebulosus Severine asks the viewer with her latest installation entitled ‘The Cult(ure) of Television”.

Severine believes that television can be a good thing in measured doses and, when it’s done well, it can be informative and educational as well as entertaining.

However, she is of the opinion that too much viewing can lead to very real effects.

“It is my personal belief that a person who watches too much television is more mentally passive, suggestible and therefore more brainwash-able; he will spend more and think less,” she says.

Severine’s installation challenges the viewer to take a fresh look at television. It takes a wry trip through her personal list of inanities.

“I started brainstorming and simply documented what came to mind naturally - generally the most pervasive and un-ignorable fragments,” she says.

Be sure to investigate each part of the installation as many items contain surprises for observant eyes. 

Cubist Scarborough’s exhibition represents his initial explorations into the recreation of real-world objects in a 3D virtual space.