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The Shape of Here
Featuring four UK based artist-makers Helen Carnac, Ken Eastman, David Gates and Annie Turner, 鈥楾he Shape of Here鈥� explores new and evolving notions of place through distinct material techniques. Across various perspectives and disciplines鈥攆rom clay to metal and wood鈥攖heir experimental investigations result in personal responses to space and landscape. The works reflect upon a nature that is constantly changing to evoke a re-evaluation of our relationship to the environment.
Relocating from London several years ago, Helen Carnac and David Gates have established their studios and workshops in rural West Somerset, UK. This move has seen an ongoing recontextualization of their practices, particularly through the gathering of source material and visual imagery while walking the surrounding countryside, exploring human interventions in the landscape. Carnac focuses on the microdetail of surface patination, such as rust, corrosion and lichen. Gates鈥� work has an affinity with agricultural and industrial architecture and infrastructure, focusing on the form and structure of silos, barns, pylons and sheds. Tightly made traditional joinery and cabinet making are combined with split and cleaved pieces, wood that carries the marks of its working, whether sawn, split, planed or scraped.
Working with the medium of ceramics, Ken Eastman can be both builder and painter, handling shape and structure, as well as exploring tone and color. The new works in this exhibition are the sum of small decisions, choices and actions built up so that each piece comes into focus slowly. This enables Eastman to concentrate on how each element meets and relates to its neighbors and what it contributes to the whole. In this way, his works are not inspired by a physical, tangible place but his desire to make things he has never seen before, taking viewers to an imagined place.
Inspired by the River Deben, the work of Suffolk-based ceramic sculptor Annie Turner draws upon the place where her family have lived and worked. Her hand-built nets, ladders and boxes create composite descriptions of the river鈥檚 architecture and man鈥檚 intervention over time. Her visual language is imbued with connections to place as well as personal memories, fossils collected since childhood form the color palette of her work, each hue linking back to the muddy foreshore on which it was discovered. Both fragile and strong, her work reflects the movement and restlessness of the natural landscape, changing seasons and the passage of time.
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Featuring four UK based artist-makers Helen Carnac, Ken Eastman, David Gates and Annie Turner, 鈥楾he Shape of Here鈥� explores new and evolving notions of place through distinct material techniques. Across various perspectives and disciplines鈥攆rom clay to metal and wood鈥攖heir experimental investigations result in personal responses to space and landscape. The works reflect upon a nature that is constantly changing to evoke a re-evaluation of our relationship to the environment.
Relocating from London several years ago, Helen Carnac and David Gates have established their studios and workshops in rural West Somerset, UK. This move has seen an ongoing recontextualization of their practices, particularly through the gathering of source material and visual imagery while walking the surrounding countryside, exploring human interventions in the landscape. Carnac focuses on the microdetail of surface patination, such as rust, corrosion and lichen. Gates鈥� work has an affinity with agricultural and industrial architecture and infrastructure, focusing on the form and structure of silos, barns, pylons and sheds. Tightly made traditional joinery and cabinet making are combined with split and cleaved pieces, wood that carries the marks of its working, whether sawn, split, planed or scraped.
Working with the medium of ceramics, Ken Eastman can be both builder and painter, handling shape and structure, as well as exploring tone and color. The new works in this exhibition are the sum of small decisions, choices and actions built up so that each piece comes into focus slowly. This enables Eastman to concentrate on how each element meets and relates to its neighbors and what it contributes to the whole. In this way, his works are not inspired by a physical, tangible place but his desire to make things he has never seen before, taking viewers to an imagined place.
Inspired by the River Deben, the work of Suffolk-based ceramic sculptor Annie Turner draws upon the place where her family have lived and worked. Her hand-built nets, ladders and boxes create composite descriptions of the river鈥檚 architecture and man鈥檚 intervention over time. Her visual language is imbued with connections to place as well as personal memories, fossils collected since childhood form the color palette of her work, each hue linking back to the muddy foreshore on which it was discovered. Both fragile and strong, her work reflects the movement and restlessness of the natural landscape, changing seasons and the passage of time.
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