TWO artists will be looking at the art of remembrance in a new exhibition opening at a Leigh Gallery.

Although artists Nick Crowe and Kenny Hunter are inspired by radically different sources -- one by the internet, the other by old public statues -- they will both explore the idea of memorials in an exhibition at the Turnpike Gallery from February 24 to April 21.

Manchester-based artist Nick Crowe is influenced by Internet commemoration sites. He looks at relationships between public and private commemoration in The New Medium and has produced a series of internet memorials engraved on glass.

Nick said: "Perhaps the afterlife and cyberspace are so similar in their cultural conception that is seems little effort to wrap one into the other."

His previous work has included a solo show in Helsinki and large scale works for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York.

Kenny Hunter lives and works in Glasgow and is influenced by the language of nineteenth century public statuary. By replacing the bronze and stone of public monuments with contemporary material plastic, which is associated with transience rather than permanence. The works are highly finished and painted in pure white. Kenny's solo exhibitions have included the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and Invisible Republic at Glasgow Print Studio.