There is under one week until Pamela Schilderman and I install our new work for ‘Fool’s Gold’, a two person exhibition at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum with associated events in Rugby and London.
I am thinking about how my three new series of works ‘Winters blues’, ‘Cairns’ and ‘Quadrats’ will be hung in relation to each other.
The groupings will be led by the ‘Quadrats’ series.
In the ecology world quadrats are laid down horizontally to frame a habitat and count their inhabitants.
From this starting point, I have played with how I will use them as viewfinders to look at our relationship with nature and to frame what we have chosen to value and discard. My ‘Quadrats” will be hung vertically, horizontally and everything in-between, framing my other bodies of work. Made from debris, they will re-present what is viewed through them.
In the future I would like to experiment with taking the quadrats outside of a gallery setting. I am interested in how the quadrats could be used and made collaboratively to frame and highlight local urban ecological or social issues in indoor and outdoor spaces, in partnership with local communities.
‘Fools Gold’, opens on Saturday 25th January at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. This exhibition seeks to challenge society’s consumerism and its impact on the environment. Through the transformation of waste and natural resources artists Pamela Schilderman and Hayley Harrison invite visitors to engage in conversations around the climate crisis and our use of materials. The exhibition is accompanied by workshops, talks, a commissioned article, an animation and a live installation.
There will be an In Conversation artist talk on Tuesday 6th March at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum at 6 pm (tickets £6). This project is funded by Arts Council England and Rugby Council.
For full details, location and opening times please see Fool’s Gold
