Wednesday 8th – Sunday 19th May
An exhibition of contemporary textiles and ceramics.
Bringing an exciting collaboration to the Select Art Trail in 2019 will be ceramicist Björk Haraldsdóttir and textile artist and printer Jacy Wall in ‘Materials Matter’.
Materials Matter is part of the Select Art Trail in 2019 – a celebration of fine arts from leading and emerging artists in exhibitions and events.
Two artists collaborate to bring a dazzling show of pattern and colour to delight and surprise.
There can’t be many tapestry weavers who delight in taking a pair of scissors to their work, but Jacy Wall is certainly one. She will often improvise on an idea in weave, and then when off the loom, cut, change, add, re-piece the work until it takes on a new life of its own. All of Jacy’s work, in both weave and print, is an interrogation of the qualities of textiles, through surfaces, pattern, structure, seams, thread and stitch. Black and white are often a backdrop to Jacy’s palette of nuanced tones of reds, blues, yellows in wool and linen which she dyes herself.
Björk Haraldsdottir’s ceramic work also has strong affinities with textiles with bold surface pattern. She makes hand built stoneware vessels, the large pieces having a majestic presence, influenced by her initial career as an architect. Her Nordic heritage becomes evident in their surfaces, which are reminiscent of old Icelandic and Celtic knitting and stitch patterns. Tones of blacks and soft whites again predominate, accented with reds and greys, the raw clay still evident in the carving of pattern through slips.
Both artists are innovative and truly inspiring in their approach to their work.
For more images and details contact:
info@sitselect.org
01453 751056
www.ceramicsbybjork.com
www.jacywall.co.uk