Exhibitions featuring two local artists will be opening at Barton upon Humber’s The Ropewalk arts centre in mid-January.
Textures of Spurn: Works on paper, silk and linen featuring work by textile artist Alice Fox and The Passage of Time with Hull artist Martin Waters will be the first exhibitions in the 2013 programme put together by Exhibitions Officer Richard Hatfield.
Alice has an intense interest in the natural world and in the detail of organic things. Much of her work is currently based on coastal themes and she was artist in residence at Spurn Point National Nature Reserve during 2012.
“Textures of Spurn, being shown in Gallery One, is the body of work resulting from Alice’s project as Artist in Residence at Spurn National Nature Reserve,” said Richard. Over a six-month period during 2012 Alice recorded her experience of Spurn, including the wide horizons, windswept beaches, an abundance of migrating birds and other wildlife, fascinating patterns in mud and sand as the tide constantly ebbs and flows.”
“All these are all elements that make Spurn the special place that it is and which Alice has recorded with her intense interest in the natural world and in the detail of organic things. Her practice brings together observation, recording and interaction with landscape – sustainability is at the heart of her practice,” Richard went on.
Martin’s recent projects have also included a residency at Spurn Point where he collected flotsam and jetsam from the beach and recycled it into art. Much of it was man-made plastics in bright colours that contrasted starkly with the natural environment at Spurn.
“Many may have seen his beachcombing collections on display at The Deep in Hull and his most recent installation at Holy Trinity Church, also in Hull, was a piece entitled Trench featuring over 8500 poppies and was designed to mark Remembrance Day”, Richard continued.
His new exhibition, The Passage of Time, in the Artspace focuses on a more personal history and features many of the artist’s own images and objects.
“Martin aims to document how our experiences change and move within our lifetime,” Richard added.
Both exhibitions open on Saturday January 19. Textures of Spurn continues until Sunday, February 24 while The Passage of Time ends on Sunday March 3.
There is no charge for admission to The Ropewalk galleries which are open from Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm and on Sundays and Bank Holidays from 10am to 4pm.
The annual exhibition by The Ropewalk Studio artists. Featuring work by:
David Alcock
Sally Beaumont
Emily Connor
Debbie Grice
Richard Hatfield
Gill Hobson
Judith Land
Darren Langton
Tim Needham
Julie Oxenforth
Michael Scrimshaw
Shirley Trumble
Keith Woodcock
The Ropewalk’s popular Christmas Art Market will showcase the work of more than 40 makers and artists.
Taking place over the weekend of Saturday December 7 and Sunday December 8 those makers and artists selected to take part will be selling original handmade gifts, cards and artwork (more…)
Helen Martino would describe her work as being ‘sometimes serious and sometimes playful’. For many years Helen worked as a functional potter, making batches of domestic pots on a wheel. Now she sees herself as more of a maker in clay, hand building each piece individually by using soft and flexible sheets of clay. These sheets of clay are freely cut, curved and sometimes twisted, this is how Helen is able to create different perspectives and distortion within her work. The surface is painted with slip, underglaze pigment and resists. Depending on the piece silver and gold lustre may also be incorporated.
Helen is fascinated by body language and how this can be communicated. She observes Mogul and Persian miniatures and admires how they are able to tell a story within one image. These artworks often show a significant event within the life span of a person or family. Helen’s sculptures are also intimate like the miniature and show a single event that can be applied to the past, future and present, allowing the viewer to determine the story of each artwork.
Working in Cambridge, Helen exhibits widely across the UK and is the founder member of Cambridge Open Studios. She will be exhibiting in the Box Gallery in November.
Yorkshire born and bred, Eleanor Tomlinson is a traditional artist and illustrator based in East Yorkshire. Inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire countryside she has grown up amongst, Eleanor predominantly works in ink and watercolour to specialise in capturing and celebrating UK wildlife and the local countryside. Eleanor’s distinctive style using ink and watercolour, combines traditional, well-loved subjects with a contemporary, illustrative twist. Her use and composition of contrasting white space brings a narrative and sense of movement and energy to her pieces. Eleanor’s artworks have also been developed into a wide range of cards, stationery, limited edition prints and homeware collections alongside her original pieces which are being sold in an array of independent shops and galleries across the UK.
LAND, SEA AND SKY
The theme for this exhibition ‘Land, Sea, and Sky’ was chosen because its wide-ranging associations might be interpreted in many different ways, and in part because the theme was seen to have some relevance to the location of The Ropewalk Gallery. No size limit was imposed and artists were invited to respond to the theme in as wide a way as possible, to be as traditional or as innovative as they wished both in process and format. The final selection includes three dimensional and large format pieces as well as more conventional prints.
Printmakers Council was founded in 1965 by a group of prominent printmakers to raise the profile of printmaking as an art form and to provide an exhibition society for members. For over fifty years PmC has continued to pursue these aims through a rolling programme of exhibitions, lectures and practical workshops.
Two new exhibitions with links to northern Lincolnshire are opening this Saturday (Sept 14) at The Ropewalk arts centre in Barton upon Humber.
In the Artspace is Re-Tellings, a solo exhibition by Grimsby based artist Sue Stone whose work is inspired by people, place and time. (more…)
