2020, Exhibition Archive
‘Conversations’
18th April – 9th May 2020
Creating dialogues through sculpture and painting
SHARON GRIFFIN
The basis of my work is the human form, with references to Greek mythology, theatre, feminism and folklore.
I am drawn to forests, woodlands, humans and animals. I hunt, gather and forage in the woodland at the back of my house for found objects and twisted branches, smooth stones, oxides, coal, metals, plants and the odd skull or bone. Every item has a history and a story to tell. I create dialogues as I bring the pieces together to one complete piece.
ZOË TAYLOR
Much of my work is fuelled by long car journeys from the Midlands through to west Wales to visit parents.
The journey through that wonderful landscape along the old road, much of which was an original Drovers road, skirting the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons and then travelling through the lush fields towards the sea. I am mindful of the subtle changes in the earth, the colours of the soils from Herefordshire to West Wales.
Zoë Taylor
Sometimes, and only sometimes, a little bit of magic happens and a work will almost paint itself. This was one of those happy moments when, without overthinking or overpainting, a darling little image appeared.
A bright and fresh painting made with sweeping arm movements feeling the sky grow out of the paint.
Zoë Taylor
Escalate
Mixed media on aluminium panel
40 x 40cm
Sharon Griffin
Investigating Feminist folklore helps to tell Herstory rather than History. The person who wrote History is the person who won the war. Herstory is about the empowerment of women and taking strength from the land and from her family.
She is stripped bare but takes on the camouflage of the woods. Water, earth, rock gives power to her to tell her story.
Sharon Griffin
Telling her Story
Stoneware, slips, engobes, glaze, sgraffito
H22cm x D12cm x W24cm