- Venue
- Mission Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, February 14, 2015
- Ends
- Sunday, April 12, 2015
- Address
- Gloucester Place | Maritime Quarter | Swansea SA1 1TY | Wales | UK
- Location
- Wales
- Organiser
- Mission Gallery
Private View
Saturday 14 February
with Artist Talk at 2pm
The tale of Julie Arkell’s exhibition – the Away that follows Home of 10 years ago – is one of order, regime and classification. It won’t look that way, of course. It will look as magical and spry as ever her work does. But behind it all was a self-imposed making process that kept her going through mourning the death of her mother (which happened at the end of 2011) and manifested the cycles of grief Arkell experienced, in real and tangible form.
For the main body of this exhibition Arkell made 100 ‘creatures’, one a week. From the first creature, a small timid thing, to the last creature – more robust and opinionated, striding off – they make a fabulous narrative set. Arkell knew she would make 100 from the start. She has a thing for numbers and the number 100 seemed just right.
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Stitch Workshop with Julie Arkell
11am – 4pm Sunday 15 February
£60 (£54 for Friends of Mission Gallery) | Booking essential | Lunch provided
“I love to make things with fabric, wool, odd notions found in old sewing baskets, scraps, trinkets found and given. Embroidering words and stories onto old and new cloth. Repairing, darning, knitting and crocheting, we will piece together fabric to make brooches, bracelets and other objects. Then it would be a good idea to bring collections with you to be inspired to make something of your own.”
To book a place, please contact Lucy Donald, Learning & Participation Officer on 01792 652016 or email [email protected]
Images by Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
