Our exhibition was advertised on BBC Points West.

Our group was very excited to be advertised on the regional news by the weather man on the night of our private view!

The private view on the 5th April 2011.

We would like to thank all the companies who sponsored our exhibition. These companies helped make our exhibition possible and allowed us to supply food and drink on the private view night.

 A huge thank you to Wild and Wolf, Zad Industries and the catering company A Bit of a Do who supplied the food for a fantastic discount!

Thanks to everyone who came along to the private view!

Alice Falvey

James McNeill  

Amy Jones

Camila Sadler 

Molly Gibbons

Alice Bradley 

Olivia Mason 

Alice Woolliscroft 

Emily May Montgomery 

Setting up our exhibition on the 4th of April 2011.

The banner for our exhibition!

Not long to go now... a preview from James

 

I love working with clay. I like being able to turn an idea into a solid form, but show  that there is still a connection with the earth from which it has come from. Texture and colour are important to my work, for my current pieces I found myself collecting images of rocks and pebbles for inspiration on colours; I looked at pebbles collected from my childhood holidays by the sea, the shiny geodes that you come across in the seaside shops, they all have influence on my  work.  My sketchbook contains all my thoughts, I’ll explore shapes and themes to follow and let my thoughts flow onto paper, writing myself questions and suggestions of what else could be done or how would this look?  What colours will work well? When it comes to colour, I look to make glazes that represent and highlight my intentions best and adjust the recipe to suit my requirements, creating glazes of variation and texture.

James McNeill Ceramicist

Emily Montgomery

 print work

 

Artist statement

I am a textiles artist working in pattern and print. I enjoy experimenting with a manner of different printing techniques but am most experienced in silk screen printing.

My current work is influenced by geometric shapes and structure of the Bauhaus movement, though I have many other means of inspiration. My preliminary drawings have been likened to scientific diagrams which led me to investigate gene structures and cell construction. I search for patterns within these diagrams and new shapes which I can link into my drawings. My work, like the highly complex composition of DNA, is busy and systematic and I hope unique.

 I experiment with different inks and dyes and have become very fond of heat reactive disperse dyes, in which I have used a great deal in my current project.  I explore many different materials and see what effects I can produce by printing on them. I favour working on paper and fabric but have recently transferred my designs onto ceramics and look forward to learning more about this process.

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3 DAYS TO GO...

We are getting ever closer to the opening night of our exhibition which takes place this coming Tuesday at Walcot chapel. Pop down and come say hello if you get chance. we are hoping for a good turn out!!

see you then!

Artist Statement – Amy Jones

Born in Birmingham I have studied art and design for the past 8years. In 2006 I worked for Staffordshire Youth Service using Art as a media to help Young People express themselves. I was part of a group of workers called ‘Hand in Hand’ who travelled to Ethiopia with 8 Young People. We used Art to create self esteem packages to deliver to Young Females who worked on the street. I am intrigued by the use of Art to help articulate yourself. It is a very beneficial way to be heard when words are too hard to come by. This is why my work is so imperative to me.

My work is always inspired by something in my life, whether it is an event, or an emotion, it is very personal to me. It can be something very ‘everyday’ or it can be something ‘extraordinary’. This, for me, not only benefits the outcome of my work but it is also like therapy without the huge cheque at the end.

My tool of choice is the pen. Its ability to change every surface it touches captivates me. I then that these altered surfaces and introduce the use of stitch and/or various different materials I find around my house. I am a hoarder of grand proportions, I like to reuse rather than buy fresh (cheapskate!)

I am obsessed with texture. I initiate this into my work using layers of various Medias such as drawing, embroidery and sculpture. This helps communicate the emotive aspect of my pieces.

Currently I am working on a piece that revolves around Trees. I am intrigued by their sheer size, shape and strength but, at the same time, there fragility and delicate existence just like many aspects of life. I spend a lot of time drawing trees. Using Photoshop, I manipulate these drawings to look like reflections. I intend on creating a whole book made out of individual paper cuts that link these drawing. 104pages to go..  

Camila Sadler

Possessions follow us, go with us.  They provide us with a sense of home, a sense of the individual.  They can accompany us wherever we travel. These little bits of our past have varying relevance within our lives: some have a useful purpose; others do not; whilst others remind us of events or people in our lives.

Our rooms provide us with a sense of home through content, placement and familiarity.  We treasure anything from plastic holiday mementos to treasured bits of lace: each is protected and adored. These hoardings represent for us a sense of place, belonging and security.

Conversely, makeshift memorials and spontaneous shrines are like a marker of home away from home. Usually in public places, they contain items of particular significance or emotive memory to the life being remembered.  Whether religious or non-religious, these proffered ‘grave goods’ are often an odd assortment of objects that create a physical reminder of a life past or an  .  Yet we leave these objects exposed to the whims of people and the ravages of nature.

The artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca has produced installations which reproduce Peruvian burial walls.  The small niches which make up the wall are adorned with photographs, flowers and objects to accompany the dead into the afterlife, and which are intended to commemorate life rather than illustrate death.  It is the composition of these small enclosed compartments - like rooms of a doll’s house - that influences both my textile and photographic work: both include objects in a staged venue – some I create, others I observe.

My textile installations, such as recently exhibited in a Bath shop front, refer to content, placement and familiarity.  They include personal objects and textiles which belong to myself, or have belonged to members of my family. Recognition of the significance of objects is like that of the artist Sophie Calle, whose works include objects of personal significance also placed in public venues.

An important aspect of my current photographic work is light: specifically, how the control of light on makeshift memorials influences our readings of the objects they contain. The light installations created by the artist Rune Guneriussen illuminate the ground beneath them whilst creating forms within the darkness, and I aim to recreate the same magical, almost mystic feel of his work in my own.