Objects, Space & Place
Objects, Space & Place will feature work from established and emerging artists, Fiona Donald, Jane Draper and Sam Kirk. A variety of work will be on display including painting, photography and photograms. Interpreting natural elements of the world in which we live inspires the artwork from all three artists.
Fiona Donald is exhibiting drawings and photograms, which demonstrates the process of making, of revealing, it is the result of a struggle to find the ‘essence’. She seeks to explore the subtle forms of communication beyond the use of language, the moments in our lives when words are redundant. The look, the touch, the thought, the spaces between, the pause, time passing, in Japanese the ‘ma’.
Drawing allows Fiona to visualise what she is thinking. It is a process of discovery, of searching out and becoming. The ‘Points of Departure’ drawings are derived from familiar motifs: trees from the Rushford Park Conservation area opposite Fiona’s studio in Manchester and the smell of her children’s hair.
The ‘Conversation’ photograms capture a specific moment in time, freezing and suspending the beauty to take note of the ordinary. The blackness has ambivalence alluding to the space between.
Tuesday 6th July – Sunday 11th July 2010.
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The Ladywell Tavern
80 Ladywell Rd
SE13 7HS
