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Venue: Gallery St.Martin's
Starts: Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Ends: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Address: 37B Hungate, St.Martin's Square, Lincoln, LN1 1ET
Location: East Midlands
Organiser: Moira West at Gallery St.Martin's, Lincoln

Lincolnshire based artist Moira West explores some of the issues prevailing in today’s society. Her latest exhibition work relates to consumer excess, trade, and worship of the individual. This body of work is shown alongside some of her more important pieces from previous exhibitions, which interact effortlessly with the new.

Salvaging and reinterpreting unusual materials is not new within her working practice, nor is the introduction of new materials. The overriding concept for all her work is to produce fibre work which not only shows a variety of felting techniques, and the versatility of fibres, but also to provide the viewer, through interaction, with knowledge and information.

Invited to exhibit after her successful solo show at the Sam Scorer Gallery in 2014, and seven years since her previous solo at Gallery St.Martin’s, she is taking the opportunity to show again in this artist managed gallery, situated in the heart of Lincoln. “I was delighted to be invited by gallery manager and artist Phil Bowman to produce my fibre art for another solo exhibition. This body of work will stretch me artistically, whilst also allowing a continuing interpretation of human strength and weakness – a recurrent theme of my work. Communication is a critical factor in meaningful interaction: the ability to question, reflect and relate to others, the environment, and world around us. This focuses me on a need to conserve the earth’s resources. It has taken two years to collect materials before making could begin and my hope is that visitors will appreciate and be stimulated as a result of their experience. Gallery St.Martin’s is a space anyone can feel relaxed in, and offers the chance to chat or just to reflect.”

A small, but beautiful gallery, and with a greater artistic presence in the city than its size would suggest, Gallery St.Martin’s invites you to see Moira’s work from Tuesday 4th September to Saturday 16th September 2017, at 37b Hungate, St.Martin’s Square, Lincoln, LN1 1ET. Please refer to the website for further details.