A Visual Guide to Faces and Threads with links to essays…

The Secrets of Our Success?

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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Faces & Threads: Two Minutes to Midnight?

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.

Sous Le Pave Le Plage

[…] the purpose of art is not about putting people down and making them feel small and uneducated, that is the machiavellian hand of the state as it tries to quell thought, cancel dissent and avoid the kind of introspection that could lead to people gaining an understanding of their own thoughts and feelings. Art is about self-expression and learning to work things out for ourselves.

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Gatekeepers of The Body/I've Got You, You've Got Me

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

Once More Unto The Breach (Repeat Ad Infinitum)

The work of Lou Hazelwood and Chris Graham, when working as a duo, seeks to make sense of the slippage from one political and philosophical state to another.

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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