You are invited to the Private View of:
FABRICATE, a woven response to place
on: Thursday 7 January 2010 6.30 – 8.30
Louise Nason will be showing work from her 8 – month residency at St George’s Arts
in an exhibition showcasing her site specific textiles pieces made in response to
the church building and its architecture.
Meet the artist: Saturday 9 January
Exhibition continues until 30 January
Opening times:
Monday, Wednesday, Saturday 10 – 4 pm
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10 – 1 pm
Closed Sunday
St George’s Arts, Esher Park Avenue, Esher, Surrey KT10 9RQ
Project Blog: http://stgeorgesarts.wordpress.com/
Email: [email protected]
St George’s Arts,
Visual Arts Organiser: Jane Ponsford 01372 467720
Louise Nason: 07775 646 892
Our artist-in-residence, Louise Nason is running the last workshops of her residency over the next few weeks, the first, on the 28 November is a natural dye workshop where she will be showing how to use a range of, not surprisingly, natural dyes such as cutch and indigo which she uses in her work. The second and final one is a children’s weaving workshop on 22 December. Looking ahead we have Louise’s exhibition, ‘Fabricate, a woven response to place’ which will show the results of her 8 month residency at St George’s. She will also be showing some of the work made by local people as part of the project. During her project Louise has involved lots of people in making their own work or responding in some way to the ideas she has brought to them but she has also had the opportunity to investigate different ways of working herself. So we are really looking forward to seeing the culmination of this time.
Louise Nason Artist in residence.
Well it has been a couple of weeks since I last posted. I have been able to concentrate on my own work and have now finished weaving my major piece. I have sill to finish it. This is preparing the cloth, a technique called beetleing which gives a sheen to the cloth by ironing to give a burnished finish. I then need to work out the methods of displaying the piece.
I have also had some time to think about another piece of work. I have wound the warp and hope to make a start on the weaving once I rope in some family to wind the 4 meter warp on the loom again!!
Jane Ponsford visual arts organiser
At St George’s we are moving towards the end of this year’s residency. Louise, our artist-in-residence for this year has completed most of the collaborative days and will be concentrating on finishing off her woven response to the building. She has become more and more interested in the architecture of the place which has influenced her work moving it into much heavier, more structural direction. In response to this she has decided that her final exhibition in January at St George’s will be called ‘Fabricate: a woven response to place’.
In the meanwhile there is a natural dye workshop on the 28th of November and a last weaving workshop just before Christmas. The dye workshop is being hosted at the Riverhouse Gallery’s Toshiba Studio.
We are just about to start the call-out for our next artist-in-residence and also developing more events and exhibitions to run concurrently during the year. However first we will be looking back over 2009 to learn from what we have done this year. Which things worked and which didn’t?
Louise Nason Artist in residence.
Well we had a fantastic turn out for the Big Draw. Over eighty people came to St George’s church on the Saturday. It was a lovely day so it mean that we could make use of the churchyard and take lots of rubbing from the headstones. Inside we had several different areas exploring looking from different points of view. We projected images of things found in the church and drew from them, we had children draw different textures by touch and we had an area with a large sheet of paper for ink drawing of close ups of the building.
I was especially pleased with the number of people who added to our community weave we even had a three year old with a little help having a go at weaving.
