Saturday, 20 July 2019

Colour Space

I am half way through this exhibition. I have exhibited prints and a neon light installation using the word Red. There was not room for all the different colour way silk screens so I hope to display them again in a larger venue.
This is an Access ten exhibition and this time I have curated it. Artists Sarah Lancaster, Ruth Franklin and Matthew Swift (my invited artists) helped me with the hang. Thank goodness, as the hanging system is very fiddly; otherwise the pie Factory is a wonderful space to use. If you ever exhibit here be aware of the sunlight comming through the high windows in the front room ...





Colour space 'Red'


Courspace - Individual silk screen prints 


Musical event


Silkscreening the leaflets - logo was done with wooden letters. (letterpress)

Monday, 3 June 2019

Profile

I did two pieces for this DAB show. The main piece was constructed out of two chairs of my grandmother's. One had been left to decompose in the garden for five years. The other was in the state that I inherited. The piece was titled TIME, the profile being abstract and made by thought process.
It started in the window of the gallery and was more situation related as an instalation than site specific. I liked the slope. At the end of the exhibition I set it up centrally in the gallery on the floor as originally planned.
DAB is a experimental group of artist friends who meet weekly to do just that; experiment with ideas developed from drawing. Drawing And Beyond. I have been in the group for three years.






The other piece was titled 390 bus route. It profiled the journey from Victoria to Kings cross London. With some artistic licence on choosing the bus stops.



Monday, 28 January 2019

Horsebridge Open 2019

Rearranged and recycled objects from previous installations shown at the Horsebridge Open Exhibition titled The Space Within. Each object is a plaster cast of an exact object speaking of volume and the ensemble also speaks of space within a perimeter. My title was Washing up.



Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Slow Stich exhibition

Since April last year I have been experimenting with cloth and stich. I have also been repairing and bringing to life some of my old favourite knitted jumpers and my grandfather's old coat. These are becomming diarys of different epochs of my life as well as becomming new rewearable articles of clothing.
In February there is a group show 'Slow Stich'. This is the piece that I have submitted.




In this piece I made a journey through time; thirty years of life in small house in rural France. The fabrics all came from within this space and some of them reflect specific times and encounters. 
The colours come from JN”s earthenware clay and from a bunch of last year’s lavender grown locally that I left in a vase. As I stitched this piece in situ I relived and reflected on memories. Many secrets are hidden within this ensemble of fabrics and stiches.