- Venue
- The Barn, Standard Street
- Starts
- Saturday, March 2, 2013
- Ends
- Sunday, April 28, 2013
- Address
- The Barn, Standard Street , Crickhowell, NP8 1BZ
- Location
- Wales
The Woollen Line documents a journey that began in 2009. Artist Pip Woolf set off on an impossible task to repair the damage that has haunted the top of Pen Trumau mountain since it was torched by fire during the summer of 1976. This exhibition marks the inception of one artist’s vision to explore the possibility for change brought about through community, cooperation and creative endeavour. Pip Woolf’s work is concerned with the surface and what lies beneath it. If the scar on Pen Trumau presents the artist with a large canvass, the work in the exhibition reveal an interest in the layers that lie beneath. The exhibition reconsiders the mountain in the context of its geography, ecology and history alongside the poetics of the place. 3 years and 750 volunteers later the Woollen Line is a work in progress. The exhibition references some of the rich and provocative encounters that have happened along the way. The work has been the catalyst for conversations with Black Mountain graziers, conservationists, artists, families, students, horse people, walkers, tourists, amongst many others, raising questions along the way about where art and conservation meet, the role of art in conservation and ownership and responsibility of place. The work invites us to re-examine our own connection with place. Kirsty Claxton curator
