The art exhibition at Loughborough’s Sock Gallery (Oceans: Treasures of the Deep) is worth a visit if you like oceanic images, finely detailed work or an intersection of the two. Artist Olivier Leger, who made his start locally, creates fantastic images of creatures like whales, sharks and turtles that turn out to contain whole worlds within them. The details aren’t just there for whimsy but tell stories as well. For example, the shark image shows things like a tiny Jaws poster (indicative of how we paint sharks as dangerous creatures), paper currency pinned to the fin (commercial fishing for a tiny part of the body destroys populations) and a host of sharks being led off by an angel of death.
Most days up until the close on 11 January, the artist will also be there to explain and the exhibition includes magnifying glasses you can use if you want to take a much closer look.
