- Venue
- 33 High Street
- Starts
- Monday, June 1, 2009
- Ends
- Tuesday, June 30, 2009
- Address
- 33 High Street, Stroud
- Location
- South West England
International artist Sally Hampson will be showing 'The Seven Poets' Coats' project, an ongoing site-specific project, previously shown in Qatar, Egypt and Morocco.Inspired by pre-Islamic Arabic poetry of the sixth and seventh centuries, this project explores a collection of poems known as the Mu'allaqat, or 'suspended poems'. Through colour, texture and fragments of script, the poets and their poems are brought back from the desert for a brief glimpse, summoning them into the present. Sally has worked on projects in Egypt and Sinai with Bedouin women, which has taken her out into remote parts of the desert and more recently to Ethiopia and Kenya. The richness of these cultures continues to inspire and influence her work. Combining these journeys with research and collaboration with the anthropologist and explorer Kitty Lake, the resulting collections have previously been shown at both the Pitt Rivers and Horniman Museums. Supported in kind by Trevor Barnes
