September 2023
WOVEN by Liz Williamson
As our world is overwhelmed with issues arising from fast fashion/textiles industries, an individual response is to use what we have - repurposing, recycling, circulating existing materials. The idea of making do - using readily available materials for clothing and objects for warmth, protection or to beautify a home has been central to women’s domestic craft practises for centuries and has been central to Williamson’s practise for the past decade.
Find out more »October 2023
Transform: shirts reimagined
Whatever the shirt was to begin with, these artists have repurposed, transformed, manipulated or recreated a shirt, or a couple of shirts into a new piece, a functional object, recreating a new wearable shirt or predominantly, transforming a shirt into a unique artwork.
Find out more »November 2023
Blow Your Own Trumpet
In this show Tina Matthews presents kinetic sculptures constructed from found and reworked materials that include steel and copper, wood, silk threads, glassine and shellac. These joyful sculptures perform in any breeze that passes and have a parallel life in the shadows they throw on all surrounding surfaces.
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