A Visual Guide to Faces and Threads with links to essays…
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At our lowest ebb our own imagination can be a life raft, manifesting itself in a whole manner of different ways, carrying us along until at some point we may hopefully set our feet on dry land once more.
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After a hugely successful launch for the open air ‘Faces and Threads’ exhibition on ‘The Corner’ Pocket Sculpture Park, we moved into a period of instability and upheaval rather than the usual process of reflection and examination that generally occurs post-installation/Launch.
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Down in the gloomy half light at the rear of the basement hangs a massive stylised bat constructed in stainless steel. Its hinged wings give the impression that it could take flight at any moment. It is a work that feels light despite its size.
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‘Traumas of The Flesh’ looks at feminist issues and their impact on mental health. For this exhibition Mo Robertson builds an immersive environment containing a series of sculptures made from textiles and casting material.
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Gatekeepers of The Body is an exhibition by Middleton based Artist Annabelle Richmond-Wright. It is also the first stage of a public sculpture project, the second in four stages designed to revive the fortunes of our community here in South Leeds
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The Metaphorical Museum really exists, we just don’t realise it. Just like our memories It exists in a place where time, the 4th dimension, collapses and inhabits the 3 dimensions of physical space. It is a place of invention, innovation, excavation, examination and learning.
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Dismantle everything
and meet the edges (the edges bleed)
Beware of Artists, they mix with all classes of society’
A popular meme from the internet of today allegedly has its origins in a warning from King Leopold of Belgium to Queen Victoria, when in 1845 he wrote
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The exhibition ‘Squaring the Circle’ by Loane Bobillier comes at a point where we can look back at National and International events of recent years and question our place within the framework of a rapidly changing society.
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A lecture by Dominic Hopkinson
Sunday 26.04.15 | 3pm – 4pm
(The following lecture and tour of the work took place on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the cool subterranean exhibition space that is BasementArtsProject)
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