September 29th 2015
Participation in three shows coming up!
Quartz Festival at Queens College, Taunton – a mixed show of a range of locally based artists, curated by Lisa Harty and Sarah Dudman. Opens tomorrow,Wednesday September 30th and runs til Saturday October 11th, 10- 6 daily. I have both prints and small tapestries there. http://quartzfestival.co.uk/
The second show promises to be really interesting; ‘Re-animate, Repair and Meld’ at the Bluecoat Display Centre in Liverpool is being curated by Paul Scott, whose brilliant stapled plates were part of my ‘Nature of Mending’ show in 2013. It will feature the work of artists who are concerned with the re-use and re-animation of existent (often devalued or discarded) cultural material. Other artists include Matthew Harris, Neil Brownsword, Bouke de Vries, and Jenni Dutton and Bridget Harvey, (both of whom will be in my next Mending show in 2016; more on this in due course). There will also be artists from Canada and Scandinavia. ‘Re-animate, Repair and Meld’ will run October 10th – November 14th. http://www.bluecoatdisplaycentre.com/
Finally, Stroud International Textiles (SIT) are mounting a Showcase weekend of stands, exhibitions and events at Cheltenham Town Hall Friday October 23rd – Sunday October 25th. I will have several of my small, block mounted tapestries on show here. http://www.sitselect.org/showcase/index.html
Through all of this activity, I and five other artists are still working on the Discovery Room project, exploring the museum stores and archives of Somerset Heritage. I have been trying out all kinds of new processes from video to casting textiles in bronze! Will do a full post on this before the final show opens in Taunton. More details at http://www.revealthemuseum.com
Finally, a PS. If you read my post about Bologna and Peralta, from June 2014 (still on this page, just) it talks about Fiore de Henriquez. Good friend Charles Mapleston has now finished his very fine film about this extraordinary sculptor, and a trailer can be seen at http://www.malachite.co.uk/films.html