Down comes Anywhere is Everywhere is a Circular Tale, a solo exhibition in Texas and up goes My Home is My Castle in the Harrington Mill Artists group in the Carnival of Monsters in Nottingham. Next is the Open Studios at Harrington Mill (www.harringtonmill.co.uk) on 25th and 26th October. This includes the exhibition Grey and a collaborative performance Some Other Place with myself and Louise Garland. This is going to be fun and have really enjoyed working on this-
Some Other Place is a performance that looks at the female position where vital roles are often carried out away from the public eye including the role of peacemaker. The work explores the way that women often have a very physical knowledge of domestic space, the hidden landscape of the home environment. The continuous monotony of the tasks are often relieved by an element of escape and it is here that the crevices of the mind become a fantasy space.
Hopefully, it will lead to more collaborations and we can expand and develop our ideas.
Down comes Anywhere is Everywhere is a Circular Tale, a solo exhibition in Texas and up goes My Home is My Castle in the Harrington Mill Artists group in the Carnival of Monsters in Nottingham. Next is the Open Studios at Harrington Mill (www.harringtonmill.co.uk) on 25th and 26th October. This includes the exhibition Grey and a collaborative performance Some Other Place with myself and Louise Garland. This is going to be fun and have really enjoyed working on this-
Some Other Place is a performance that looks at the female position where vital roles are often carried out away from the public eye including the role of peacemaker. The work explores the way that women often have a very physical knowledge of domestic space, the hidden landscape of the home environment. The continuous monotony of the tasks are often relieved by an element of escape and it is here that the crevices of the mind become a fantasy space.
Hopefully, it will lead to more collaborations and we can expand and develop our ideas.
Returned from Summer Lodge at Nottingham Trent University happy and with lots of ideas. Especially pleased with throwing pots which were not fired and ideas of sustainability and the notion of not leaving a legacy – a buzz word of the moment. The pots have a temporary life, and are already cracking and crumbling. They have a tactility that is often missing from my work and which was part of the aim of making them. I love the feel of clay and the way it can responds to touch. Whilst I am not an expert on the potter’s wheel and generally have little time to practice, I enjoy connecting with the material and the craft. I had built up a backlog of ideas of designs to try out with varying degrees of success. The results were displayed on small platforms on a plinth as one work and as though they were perfect, bringing in lots of ideas about exhibition and display. My favourite, however, was throwing a worm cast, about a centimetre high and less than half that in diameter. Its insignificance in terms of size is at odds with the importance of its real life existence as a measure of health of soil.
I could probably get the same results from cream cheese! Love the way paint is so sculptural, just the sheer physicality of it. Using oil paint, I don’t know whether it is the process of squeezing it out of the tube or the intensity of the colour but it does have very special qualities as a medium for sculpture. This last piece is part of a series of ‘landscapes’ and I am not sure it works as a whole. Like the reflections on the pretentiously named ‘fractured acrylic’ and the puddling caused by the oil seeping slowly out of the paint. Will have to wait to see where it goes when it reaches the edge as I usually use absorbant material for the initial stages. Better move it off my newly painted floor.
