The Dissenters' Gallery, Kensal Green Cemetery
The Dissenters' Gallery // Kensal
Green Cemetery // Ladbroke Grove, London W10
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Disruption ‘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.’ |
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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.” |
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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.” |
Entrance via the Main Gate or door on to Ladbroke Grove