Metamorphology is the new exhibition by Nicola Trethowan, which opens 7pm tonight upstairs at 1000 £ Bend. 

In Metamorphology Trethowan has particularly focused on ideas that are difficult to put into words. Cycles of crisis, shift and renewal are a challenge to represent, despite their persistent recurrence. The exhibition combines a sequence of photographic images of the ocean with a series of poems to investigate the paradoxical concept of fixed meaning in a transformative state of flux.

Metamorphology can be seen as "a study of shifting forms in poetics and photography." It relies equally on words and images to create the overall experience, which is a deeply philosophical and intellectual one.

To explain this body of work Trethowan has used an array of descriptions, such as, "allegorical personifications in classical mythology, the paradox of regenerate finitude... long exposures during a full moon, getting knocked up... a vast logbook of personal inconsistencies, the civilised perversion of the female anatomy, sand dunes, and menstrual, lunar and tidal rhythms." However, she emphasises that this work is in no way limited to these concepts. 

Metamorphology is a creation of beautiful abstraction and poetic artistry, which at the very least will morph your mind into a state of intrigue.