The next outing for Textures of Spurn is at the lovely Gallery 49 in Bridlington. The exhibition is open from 6th to 27th April and there will be a launch event on Saturday 6th between 12 and 4pm, when I'll be at the gallery. Come and say hello.
There will also be work by Stef Mitchell, Colin Self and Margaret Lawrenson on show.
The exhibition at the Ropewalk is now over. I had some lovely feedback from people visiting it and, all in all, it went really well. I'm looking forward to returning there in June to run a workshop on printing with rust.
The next venue for Textures of Spurn is Gallery 49 in Bridlington's Old Town. This opens on 6th April.
In the mean time I have some work that is related to the Spurn project in this lovely exhibition down in Cardiff: A Personal Perspective.
Despite bad weather last weekend the exhibition opening went ahead as planned and we had a quiet but friendly time at the gallery. The exhibition was featured in the Yorkshire Post newspaper this week, which was a nice bit of publicity. It is on until 24th February.
I have some spare fold out brochures from the exhibition so if you can't make it to the gallery but would like one of these I'm happy to post them out. Just send me an email with your address.
Do keep an eye on the new Spurn Artists in Residence blog for news of up-coming events in the lighthouse. The next one is in a weeks time when there is an exhibition by the Hull University Social Sciences dept. This is an opportunity to see inside the lighthouse as well as learn about the work of the department. There is also a lovely film on there about embracing change in coastal landscapes and creative projects related to it.
I returned to Spurn last week to collect the two large Spurn Cloths from the lighthouse. I was actually a bit nervous about going back: this really was the end of my official time here. Out on the dunes autumn is evident.
Inside the lighthouse Spurn Cloth #2 was beautifully lit in the autumn sunshine.
and up in the lamp room Cloth #1 still looked quite at home. I wonder how the colours have faded with almost a month in direct sunlight. There must have been some change; a mellowing. But the strong prints look much the same. Any change that there has been is just part of the life of these pieces.
I took the cloths down, packed them away and left the lighthouse as I'd found it 6 months ago.
The first venue on the gallery tour for Textures of Spurn is South Square, Thornton, near Bradford. I put up my work in the Meeting Room Gallery there earlier this week, ready for the exhibition to open on Friday evening. It is such a different space to the lighthouse but the prints and concertina books look great in a light airy room. Because of the size of the gallery there wasn't space to bring the two large Spurn Cloths and they have stayed up in the lighthouse for a little longer so that they can be seen as part of the Nature Tourism Conference that Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are running this week. I have made three small Spurn Cloths, which are representing the textile element of the project at this venue.
The preview at South Square is from 7-9pm on Friday (do come along if you are local) and then the gallery is open 12-3pm Tuesday - Sunday with the exhibition there until Sunday 28th October.
