Hurry in for the last chance to see four lovely exhibitions by Penny Walker-Keefe, me, Lilu Hosking and Sharon Crabb!! On show at
@yarrasculpturegallery 11am - 4pm today till Sunday.
‘Welcome to the Jam Session’ by Penny Walker-Keefe
@pennyw_k presents a series of airy vessels sculpted from guitar strings and polymer clay. As the exhibition notes say, these are containers ‘that cannot contain…ineffective urns for the ashes of rock stars’ - ‘each string carries traces of its previous user, the sweat and skin of sound embedded at a microscopic level’ (Zara Sully).
My exhibition, ‘The Presence of Absence/Absence of Presence: on Losing my Mother’ arose from a conversation with my friend Helen
@helen_kocis_edwards who suggested the idea of ‘departure’ as an exhibition theme. Her first trout was airports - mine was death, which then crystallised into an exhibition about my mother which is both a homage to her and an exploration of the complexities of our mother/daughter relationship. Mum died in 2021 and was also an artist.
The third exhibition is Lilu Hosking’s
@thisisliludotcom first solo - and it is magical!! Forms rise and fall with a watery grace, evoking jellyfish or dancers. ‘We Gather, We Rise, We Fall’ ‘reflects on the cycles of nature, their duration, rhythm and caring reliability. Its scale intentionally includes the human body.’
In the projection space is Sharon Crabb’s
@interiorlux lyrical ‘Dream of a Landscape’, a projection and soundscape ‘presented in the form of a Japanese scroll (that)…reflects on the multifaceted relationship we have with nature’.
The exhibitions resonate in concert - each has an element of melancholy, of honouring the ephemeral. Each has a unique beauty that celebrates different aspects of the rich human experience of life. Enjoy!!
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