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Wednesday, 18 December 2013
beyondunpickingandrebinding
Friday, 8 November 2013
thankyouturnthepagethankyou
The lovely people over at Turn The Page have been really
supportive of the pop-up show at NUA Gallery. http://www.pinterest.com/turnthepage2014/phone-images-of-les-bicknells-pop-up-exhibition/
they have me as featured artist which is really nice.
It should be a good fair this year with the selectors
bringing an authority to the proceedings. http://turnthepage.org.uk/page5.htm
Friday, 1 November 2013
showdownatthegallery
The show is down. Just 40 mins from the first unpicking to
leaving an empty gallery and closing the door behind me. The latest exhibition for
unpicking and rebinding in the gallery attached to Norwich University of the
Arts was a great success and some more. 472 people visited the space in one day
and there were some wonderful comments and conversations had. The visibility
within the University was good for the textile course and within a wider
context the many links that I have made within the organisations witnin the city
of Norwich. There are many new starting
points to chase up. The final talk to the post graduate students outlined the
project focusing on how to build a project and the many pitfalls associated
with that.
Some images from the hang -
Thursday, 31 October 2013
showonshow
The
show is up at Norwich Gallery. The work was hung in 4 hours and looks good. Its
interesting to see the work within the white walls of a gallery after the
domestic space, if rather grand of Abbotts Hall at the Museum of East Anglian
Life or the municipal functionality and clutter of the record offices and
museums the work has been shown in. I was reminded of the exhibition and
subsequent article written by Susan Vogel called Vogel’s net where the same
objects were presented within different situations or contexts, art gallery,
museum, diorama. With each viewing the context overwhelmed the objects and the
viewers reading of them was framed by the environment.
The
private view was really busy with many positive and supportive comments. It was
really nice to see so many friendly faces – thank you to all of you who turned
up, your support was greatly appreciated.
I
set up a situation where work was exchanged for a recommendation – the work in
question was a set of prints that I have shown in 4 places and felt that I had
learnt all I need from them – they will be going to good homes and I will
follow up the recommendations and be enriched by them, everybody wins.
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
booksinformingbooks
Sunday, 20 October 2013
talkingattheend
Friday, 18 October 2013
returningtothestartingpoint
There is a small display of some of the background to
unpicking and rebinding in the library at the Norwich University of the Arts
Library. It includes textual research, notebooks and some models. The books from the collection at NUA are from across a broad range of subjects including
architecture, fashion, design and fine art. Traditional smocking is included as
the starting point for the project. It supports the one day exhibition in the gallery next
week.
Monday, 14 October 2013
lastchancetosee
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