2021
19th March – 4 April 2021
Gallery One: A Droplet of Dew on her Glittering Web
Romey Porcu, Seth Searle, Lucinda Florence, Gemma Flack, Cat Rabbit, Caitlin Shearer, Eleanor James, Chloe Rose Thomas, Stephanie Watt, April Phillips, Aoife Billings, Sophie Morrow, Georgia Sacre, Lizzi Morris, Eve Wickson, Leili Tehrani Walker, Kanya Oldaker, Lilah Benetti, Frances Cannon, Hilary Green
Please note that due to Covid restrictions there are no public openings for this exhibition. Exhibition is open to view from 11am Friday 19th March. Covid-safe requirements for indoor venues will apply.
A Droplet of Dew on Her Glittering Web features the work of multiple artists personally responding to Louise Bourgeois’ recurring motif of the Spider. The show features multi disciplined work including soft sculpture, film, quilts, embroidery, painting, ceramics and poetry which are all delicately woven together by the themes of connection, transparency, community and home. Curated by Frances Cannon and Hilary Green, this show aims to celebrate the work of local women and gender non-conforming artists and invites you to enter an intricate web of creative talent.
Image: Medusa, Soft sculpture - glass beads, cotton, wire, acrylic paint.
Artists: Hilary Green, Georgia Sacre
The Canning Room: Ariana Luca – Trace and Reflect
Please note that due to Covid restrictions there are no public openings for this exhibition. Exhibition is open to view from 11am Friday 19th March. Covid-safe requirements for indoor venues will apply.
Trace and Reflect is a series of works on paper that explores how an abstract composition is constructed. Each work traces the relationship between chance and control that exists within non-representational drawing and painting processes.
8 April – 25 April 2021
Gallery One: Douglas Kirwan – Pattern and Ornament
This body of works consists of paintings showing how natural forms have been transformed into the stylized motifs often found in lace.
The sources of these images are varied, maybe Chantilly lace, the design from a table cloth or even a strange insect that sparks a series of transformative possibilities.
The Canning Room: Matthew Greenwood – Ultraviolent Lite
Morphing flesh, distorted desires and ambiguous forms. Ultraviolent Lite tongues the blurred boundaries between sensory and subconscious. Greenwood’s pieces heave and glow with irregular cadence, visceral imagery consorting with the ethereal. Space and proximity inform awareness within a realm of colour, impulse and light.
29 April – 16 May 2021
Gallery One: Marlaina Read – Fish Wife (Marrying the Baltic Sea)
I made a wedding dress and married the Baltic Sea. Now I make a marriage house. The bones of my house are iron bars, shrouded by textiles decorated with oceanic stitching, tapestry and etching. This ceremonial ecosystem reflects my ancestry and ecological self - from sea to spit to island.
The Canning Room: Adam Boyd – How Many Bones in the World
An exhibition of recent paintings, set in a world glinting between blues and reds. Populated with fiends and foes, they take their resolve from a story about the power of numbers and the dream of describing the world with patterns. An endless succession of figures and forms.
20 May – 6 June 2021
Gallery One: Chris Evans – Action & Mismatch
“The most efficient search of any unmapped territory takes the form of a random walk”
George Dyson, Turing’s Cathedral.
Emergent forms and branching patterns. A mash up of disjointed, pseudo random, replicated symbols and gestures in a constant state of disorder and error correction. These paintings become approximations of an urban ontology.
The Canning Room: Caterina Leone – Luminä
My exhibition features a series of self-portraits inspired by a residency in Finland. Working in silverpoint, I place myself naked in the snowy landscape, slowly dissolving as the works progress. The solid figures interact least with the scenery, initiating questions of our place in nature; the reality as well as the possibly futile desire for change