- Venue
- The Artworks 1830 Gallery
- Starts
- Monday, October 5, 2015
- Ends
- Sunday, October 25, 2015
- Address
- Shaw Lodge Mills, Shaw Lane, Halifax, United Kingdom HX3 9ET
- Location
- Yorkshire
- Organiser
- The Artworks 1830 Gallery
‘The Mending Room’ by artist Christine Halsey is a large-scale exhibition exploring the original context of The Artworks 1830 Gallery, situated in the former Holdsworth’s textile mill in Halifax.
This first floor gallery space previously housed groups of women responsible for mending imperfections in the cloth produced elsewhere in the mill. These women had little choice than to work long hours in dangerous and unpleasant surroundings for very low pay. In this her first solo show, Halsey highlights connections between stitch and the exploitation of women, in particular the female textile workers of West Yorkshire during the Industrial Revolution, and women working in the present day garment industry in Asia.
Christine originally trained as an architect and worked in a number of design disciplines, before later returning to study Fine Art including an MA at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2008. She has since developed a practice with a strong conceptual basis, including recurrent themes centred around gender and identity. Her work is multi-disciplinary, often process-driven and incorporates large amounts of material experimentation.
The Artworks Gallery is open Thurs-Sun, 12pm-3pm
