Walk your way through contemporary textile art with the Gallery curator and exhibiting artists
Date/Time: Oct 20 2018, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Surrey, Surrey Arts Centre | Event calendarCost: Free
Deepen your understanding of the art on display in our textile exhibits Kathy Slade: This is a chord. This is another. and Connecting Threads.
Exhibiting artists Kathy Slade, Elizabeth Carefoot, and Robin Ripley will join Jordan Strom, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, for this guided tour. The artists will provide insights about their work.
You will learn how the artists made their work, what inspired them, and how the works challenge our assumptions about art. Ask questions and share your responses to what you see.
Kathy Slade: This is a chord. This is another.
In This is a chord. This is another., Kathy Slade makes sound the subject of her embroidery and silkscreen prints. You will see a variety of influences in her work. For example, Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, rock n’ roll guitar chords, and slogans from Brexit. She celebrates the relationship between female empowerment and fibre art, though rejects the idea that it has to be handmade.
Connecting Threads
In Connecting Threads, you will see over twenty textile artworks from Surrey Art Gallery’s permanent collection. Local artist Elizabeth Carefoot has two works in the group exhibit. One is a stuffed sculpture meant to capture the “dark matter” of quantum physics. The other artwork consists of three strands of knitted objects that honour the dying reefs and the beautiful forms and colours of marine life found within. Robin Ripley’s delicate sculpture of threads pinned to the wall in a starburst pattern mimics a line drawing. She says the laborious process of making this work is “an echo of the labour involved in sewing.”
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