Jane Ponsford, visual arts organiser, St George’s Arts
In the next few weeks Louise will be running several of her community outreach days and will be visiting schools and day centres aiming to involve local people in her project. This is also the lead up to a ‘Work in Progress’ exhibition at St George’s Arts and The Big Draw. After this (very busy period) until January she will have a much calmer time to work on her final piece. It has been very interesting watching her initial ideas growing and changing during the residency and we are very excited to see her final response to the colours and light of the spaces at St George’s. Her previous work has often been extremely delicate and fine but working at St George’s she has been experimenting with a more substantial linen yarn and concentrating on structure. The time consuming and repetitive nature of the work chimes with the enduring atmosphere of the building and it seems rather appropriate that her last outreach in November will be a one day workshop on natural dyes, making use of the types of pigments that would have been used when the building that houses the residency was new.
