12 July – 5 August 2008
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00 - 17:00
Private View : July 11, 18:00 - 21:00
‘Disruption’ is an exhibition of textile-related
artwork by Catherine Dormor and Beverly Ayling-Smith. Both artists
graduated with first class honours degrees in Embroidered Textiles
from Opus School of Textile Arts (Middlesex University) in 2006.
Although dealing with different subjects, their approach to contemporary
textiles is similar in that they are both concerned with the transient
state of material which occurs as a result of touch and decay. On
its debut at New Hall College, Cambridge, Estella Shardlow in The
Cambridge Student newspaper described the exhibition as a ‘succinct
but macabre, a submission to the degenerative or manipulative effects
of contact – either physical or temporal – and finds
beauty in such conditions.’
Beverly Ayling-Smith says “my
work employs materials traditionally used for burial, lead and linen.
The relationship between cloth and the body lasts longer than a lifetime
– in this work cloth is used as a reminder of our own mortality,
the common denominator of human experience, to evoke feelings of loss,
absence, remembrance and memorial, while partly revealed text suggests
rituals and processes that are undertaken for our remembrance.”
In Catherine Dormor’s work, “the idea of the screen takes on a
dual role, with a focus on the relationship between the cloth-screen
of the work and the surface screen onto which images engaging with
the cloth-screen are projected. Considering the screen in this way
focuses on the role of the tool within the haptic/scopic relationship;
multiple screenings present the view with a dynamic in which body,
tool and sight entwine and separate.”