Frozen in Motion: Rona Campbell's Ice Dance at Qube Gallery

An exhibition of Rona’s photographs for scientists and nature lovers in Wales at the Qube Gallery, Oswald Road, Oswestry.

Ice Dance was a fine art photography exhibition by prize-winning Welsh poet and photographer Rona Campbell, it showed at the Qube Gallery on Oswald Road, Oswestry.

The collection captures ice in its many fleeting forms across the Welsh landscape, crystal formations on glass, ice glazing still water, frost pinpointing the natural world and traces what Rona describes as the full life cycle of ice, from its birth to its inevitable melt. The work is aimed particularly at scientists and nature lovers, and carries a quiet sense of wonder at a world most of us rush past.

Rona’s artistic background gives the exhibition an unusual depth. A classically trained opera soprano, poet and photographer, she sees her disciplines as intertwined rather than separate, and Ice Dance began as a combined collection of photography and poetry, funded by an Arts Council of Wales grant.

The images were hard-won: Rona describes wading through icy rivers, crouching under banks with soaking wet feet and blue fingers, racing to reach high ground before the ice melted in the sun. That physical dedication shows in photographs that feel genuinely intimate with their subject rather than simply observed from a distance.

If you would like to exhibit Ice Dance at your gallery, please get in touch.