Open Studios exhibition Kate Loveday Painting; Site09 Contemporary Drawing exhibition Fionna Hesketh drawing; The Seven Coats Project Sally Hampson textiles
| Open
Studios exhibition |
Site09 Contemporary Drawing exhibition |
The Seven Poets' Coats' Project |
| 1st-30th June Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm Sundays 14th and 21st June 12-4pm The Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE tel: 01453 760999 www.stroud.gov.uk |
30th May-14th June Daily 10am-5pm Ruskin Mill Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 OLA tel: 01453 837537 www.rmet.co.uk |
1st-30th
June Fridays and Saturdays 10am-6pm Sundays 14th and 21st June 12-4pm 33 High Street, Stroud |
| The Open Studios exhibition brings together the artists inviting you into their homes, studios and workshops around Stroud giving an overview of the exciting art on offer. It is the perfect opportunity to plan a route around the valleys so you don't have to miss a thing. New for this year is the public vote where you can support your favourite artists and show your support for the art in Stroud. A perfect way to start and end your tour of Stroud's varied and inspired art community. | This year's site09 contemporary drawing
show is curated by Noela Bewry, Sue
Rae and Maggie Shaw. In keeping with an emerging tradition within the festival, the show provides an opportunity to see the drawing practice of a group of artists who work in various disciplines such as sculpture, jewellery, ceramics, textiles and painting |
International
artist Sally Hampson will be showing 'The Seven Poets' Coats' project,
an ongoing site-specific project, previously shown in Qatar, Egypt
and Morocco. Inspired by pre-Islamic Arabic poetry of the sixth and seventh centuries, this project explores a collection of poems known as the Mu'allaqat, or 'suspended poems'. Through colour, texture and fragments of script, the poets and their poems are brought back from the desert for a brief glimpse, summoning them into the present. Sally has worked on projects in Egypt and Sinai with Bedouin women, which has taken her out into remote parts of the desert and more recently to Ethiopia and Kenya. The richness of these cultures continues to inspire and influence her work. Combining these journeys with research and collaboration with anthropologist and explorer Kitty Lake, the resulting collections have previously been shown at both the Pitt Rivers and Horniman Museums. Supported in kind by Trevor Barnes |