WOLLATON, NOTTINGHAM, UK.- The Yard Gallery presents For Millions of Years Great Things Have Grown Here, on view through June 5, 2005. For Millions of Years Great Things Have Grown Here is a two-person exhibition by Kate Scrivener and Finlay Taylor. The crossovers in their work appears through a shared interest in subject matter, that of landscape and natural history, the living stuff of our planet.

Scrivener inspects the details and minutiae that make up our world. Small painted texts are ordered and relay the effects of events within the landscape, through observations of natural history, which has a potential outside of our control. These phenomena involve the extra ordinary, the extreme and the seemingly unaccountable. In an ongoing series of works entitled Longest Survival at Sea painted drawings of poisonous sea creatures are created through texts that relay stories and reports of happenings at sea, tales of survival and near disasters. These drawings are painted on black paper as if in the dark depths of the ocean, evoking the speculative nature of human endeavour in the face of, such vast natural forces.

Taylor investigates specific species or locations, which explore notions of evolution, extinction and our relationship and involvement with the natural world. The work Rotator consists of a single silk moth flying in an endless circle, this work is informed by a specific knowledge of its history. The silk moth (Bombyx mori) was domesticated over 3000 years ago in China and is now extinct in the wild. Since this point it has evolved, adapting to its new environment, loosing the power to fly and all wing and body colour.

The Yard gallery is a housed in the stable block of Wollaton Hall and is set in a scenic 500-acre historic park. It has a popular programme of fascinating art exhibitions linked to the themes of Natural History and Science.