STROUD House Gallery's latest exhibition, Projections, opens this week and features a flurry of multimedia exhibits and installations.

"Photography and film capture a sense of immediacy and chance events, or a sense of fleeting time," said curator Lyn Cluer-Colman.

"This creates fertile ground for the imagination when existing realities can be transformed."

Projections engages with a variety of lens-based media and provides the opportunity to see photographic pieces, together with monitor and projection-based works, each has an impact unique to its medium.

Mike Edwards' large scale photographs - Swimming Pool and Bowling Alley - pulsate with colour and energy, although they are bare of any human presence.

Sally Cohen exhibits Road Movie, a monitor-based work in which the ground flies past and markings are transformed into an abstract collage of light and colour.

Clare Basel's photographic prints, including Wedding Breakfast, reveal strong references to still life classicism, yet they also show a brutal and beautiful aspect of decay.

Amy Ison's projected animation - Feminizing Deleuze and Guttari - crackles and dances across drawings on the wall, with skill, invention and humour they draw in and captivate the viewer.

The other artists represented are Carl Jeavons, Stuart Ross, Karen Jackson, Carly Williams, Rob Turner, Karen Heald, Josephine Coy, Mikael Ellison, Amy Gray, Lewis Ronald and Frances Rocha.

The exhibition opens on Wednesday, July 20 and continues until August 19 at the Stroud House Gallery, Station Road, Stroud.

The gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday between 10.30am and 5pm or by appointment. Admission is free.