Current Exhibitions
Current Exhibition
3 MAKERS
I.Byers / A.Doidge / R.Harrison
An exhibition of Ceramic sculpture Private View
Thur 9 May 2013
6pm - 9pm
Show runs
9 May - 1 June 2013
My work has evolved from a figurative mode, through to a pure visual one. The main focus of my work in the last ten years has been sculptural, working with forms, which can be read differently from several viewpoints in space. Images have developed from the early figurative concerns through to a preoccupation with underlying compositions. In particular I have been dealing with light and shadow, positive and negative, as much as building forms. I feel that I have been deconstructing and reconstructing pure form, allowing relationships of structure and light to gather in new ways.
Raewyn Harrison
In the 2012 E17 Art Trail I exhibited sixty small porcelain milk bottles which symbolised one of the most infamous government cuts from the past; the withdrawal of free school milk by Margaret Thatcher. Visitors were invited to contribute their own personal experiences and views of current government cuts, by leaving hand written messages inside a child’s school desk.
They have become Protest bottles which in recent months have occupied display cases at The William Morris Gallery. As the weeks have past, the messages have increased, this time via twitter.
In this exhibition are two separate groups of work which at first seem to have little connection. However, both share a core theme I keep coming back to: memory and loss. Through looking at events that are happening today, we can sometimes glimpse the past and the future. I am intrigued to find the threads which connect them to reveal what we leave behind, what we gain and what we lose.
Amanda Doidge
Most of my work has a strong narrative element: reflected either in series or within a single object. In this new body of work there is a focus on the transformative power of language, and how the words we use to describe things alter our perception of them. I have been inspired by the crazy and marvellous names of butterflies and moths, such as the Cynical Quaker Moth or The Laughter, which reveal more about human culture and creativity than describe the animals in question.
‘Borrowing’ these eccentric names, my work explores the power of labelling and naming on our perception of others and what we see. A series of small objects, revealed as though just unwrapped in a tiny theatre of their own, all bear the names of moth or butterfly names. The titles perhaps change how you think about the objects or perhaps how you think about the creatures thus named.
I.Byers / A.Doidge / R.Harrison
An exhibition of Ceramic sculpture Private View
Thur 9 May 2013
6pm - 9pm
Show runs
9 May - 1 June 2013
Open Hours
Thur - Sat, 12 - 7pm
Evening talks on contemporary ceramics by Keith Harrison on Tuesday 14 May 2013, 7 - 9pm.
Talks by Bonnie Kemske on Thursday 23 May, 7- 9pm.
My work has evolved from a figurative mode, through to a pure visual one. The main focus of my work in the last ten years has been sculptural, working with forms, which can be read differently from several viewpoints in space. Images have developed from the early figurative concerns through to a preoccupation with underlying compositions. In particular I have been dealing with light and shadow, positive and negative, as much as building forms. I feel that I have been deconstructing and reconstructing pure form, allowing relationships of structure and light to gather in new ways.
Raewyn Harrison
In the 2012 E17 Art Trail I exhibited sixty small porcelain milk bottles which symbolised one of the most infamous government cuts from the past; the withdrawal of free school milk by Margaret Thatcher. Visitors were invited to contribute their own personal experiences and views of current government cuts, by leaving hand written messages inside a child’s school desk.
They have become Protest bottles which in recent months have occupied display cases at The William Morris Gallery. As the weeks have past, the messages have increased, this time via twitter.
In this exhibition are two separate groups of work which at first seem to have little connection. However, both share a core theme I keep coming back to: memory and loss. Through looking at events that are happening today, we can sometimes glimpse the past and the future. I am intrigued to find the threads which connect them to reveal what we leave behind, what we gain and what we lose.
Amanda Doidge
Most of my work has a strong narrative element: reflected either in series or within a single object. In this new body of work there is a focus on the transformative power of language, and how the words we use to describe things alter our perception of them. I have been inspired by the crazy and marvellous names of butterflies and moths, such as the Cynical Quaker Moth or The Laughter, which reveal more about human culture and creativity than describe the animals in question.
‘Borrowing’ these eccentric names, my work explores the power of labelling and naming on our perception of others and what we see. A series of small objects, revealed as though just unwrapped in a tiny theatre of their own, all bear the names of moth or butterfly names. The titles perhaps change how you think about the objects or perhaps how you think about the creatures thus named.
