SHOWCASE CABINETS REFLECTING TEXT
September/October
To coincide with the Havant Literary Festival
A group influenced by text:
Stephanie Renwick and her beautiful silver jewellery inscribed with text
Sharon Lock and her exquisite bespoke artists books
Mike Elsom with his unusual books based on journeys
As a photographer, he views the world through the lens of a camera. While studying for a fine art degree at Portsmouth University, he used photographs for his final degree show, “South Atlantic Journey”, from where his “Copyright M H ELSOM” books evolved. Their purpose is to tell a story, as well as being an individual work of art. They utilise current images, but also make use of his vast archive of photographs, going back over five decades. Each book in the series, based on journeys, is home produced in limited editions of ten, and is itself unique. Images are carefully selected, and placed in order, to best describe each journey. They are accompanied by brief explanatory text.
Jacky Dillon will also be showing two of her self-published books
‘England Remembered’.
Exploring the relationships between identity, memory and the geographical imagination, she was inspired by the voices of the soldier poets of the Great War and the lyrics of popular songs of the period. This book of reflective landscape photographs portrays an aching parallel to the memories of home of the ‘lost generation’
Kate O’Connell will be displaying her large glass structures influenced by text.
Experimenting with different materials is a joy to Kate. She works with glass, ceramics, metals and textiles, pushing the materials as far as she can, and combining them in new ways to create innovative pieces of design. Working with glass, she likes to combine the uncontrolled nature of the molten material with bright, intense colours to create a series of moods - childlike and innocent, flowing and elegant, crude and unformed.
‘Bowls With Holes’ are an image of childhood hunger - there must be a hole
in the bottom of the bowl for it to empty so fast!
‘Poetry’ are the simplest possible reaction to the concept of combining
vessels with text. Ancient texts from around the globe, all relating to
food, turned into a pattern on the surface of a dish.
Pete Levy’s pots
Pete Levy - Questions about how words mean anything and how a meaning is carried by words, intrigue him.
Language is coded, only those that can decode the cipher get the full message.
His ceramics use text not only as a decoration but to produce a sense of mystery and intrigue. Can the questions they raise be answered? The viewer needs to know the code to find an answer but then again, they might only have to accept the aesthetic to find a suitable response.
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