Thread Bare: 13 February - 25 April Rochester
Thread Bare brings together the work of Craig Fisher, Lucy Brown, Joanne Haywood, Judith Dwyer who use textiles to explore the human condition and gender-related concerns, relationships between past and present and narratives constructed around personal and cultural identity.
About the artists:
• Craig Fisher's large-scale sculptural installations question representations of violence, disaster and macho-stereotypes. The resulting textile narratives which employ both art and craft techniques, defy easy definition and sit unnervingly between high and low culture, reality and fantasy, function and dysfunction.
• Lucy Brown's installations investigate displacement, absence/presence of the body, clothed and unclothed and ideas surrounding female identity. Social issues are explored through reconstructing and re-presenting second-hand clothing associated with the female body. Lucy’s work challenges the boundaries between fine art and making.
• Joanne Haywood' mixed-media jewellery draws on the conflicts of opposites: skeletal wire forms and fleshy crocheted volumes; the natural and unnatural; the absence or presence of colour; the interplay of light and shadow.
• Judith Dwyer’s Dangerous Dolls and Dogs juxtapose individually dyed silk and velvet bodies with recycled materials in order to examine the contradictory elements of our existence.
Related events:
• Artist in residence (13 - 15 February). Lucy Brown will be in the gallery working.
• Craig Fisher In Conversation (Saturday, 6 March, 1-2pm).
Held at:
Rochester Art Gallery and Craft Case Medway Visitor Information Centre 95 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1LX
Email : arts@medway.gov.uk
Telephone : 01634 338319
