Helen Scalway’s concluding exhibition at St George’s Arts, ‘Pattern and Place’ opened yesterday evening with a well attended private view that became something rather more than that. Helen had asked early music soprano, Sophia Brumfitt to ‘sing the drawings’ (this in response to comments that the 3d drawings that Helen has been working on during her residency look like musical notation). The beauty of Sophia’s singing and the appropriateness given St George’s original function as a place where sacred music was at home made the evening into a magical event with very different dynamics from the standard private view format.
I’ll leave Helen to reflect on the exhibition and residency in subsequent blog postings but would like to say that it has been a real pleasure working with her and we would like to thank her for her commitment as well as her ability to show us the everyday reality of a place reflected back to us transformed.
Over the past few years while St George’s Arts has been the base for residencies we have been privileged to work with the artists who have taken on the role.
St George’s Arts: http://stgeorgesarts.wordpress.com/
Helen Scalway:http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1750_scalway/blog/
Sophia Brumfitt: www.sophiabrumfitt.co.uk
