Exploding colours
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shewhomustThe snow continues to melt (and the river to rise) and colour is returning to the landscape. When I stand outside my front door, the road ahead is still grey with ice, but looking up I can see green fields on the far side of the town.
We visited the dli art gallery this afternoon, not so much for the current exhibition as for Gail-Nina's talk on William Morris. But there were a two artists in he exhibition whose work I enjoyed.
Adam King's piece on the staircase had been created especially for the exhibition - and I was going to say that this was obvious, that this fragile structure of colour and foil and glitter and playing cards could obviously not be moved from one place to another, but the PDF which accompanies this travelling exhibition names it as Ambivalent Apocalypse and dates it 2008-9, so they must have managed it somehow. There's an illustration in the PDF if you search for it, or Shelf Life is pretty similar: but the work is large and detailed, and the confusion which is exhilarating in the real thing just looks muddled in the photographs.
Michael Brennand-Wood's pieces are smaller and bolder, and even more vividly coloured. (The PDF opens with one of these). Strictly, the first items we saw, before we entered the exhibition proper, were his embroidered badges, as large as the palm of my hand, with designs in which 70s hippy motifs collide with the imagery of the Day of the Dead. The gallery on Brennand-Wood's website is designed to be visually striking but almost impossible to use, but I am a professional, and therefore offer you his Flower Head - Narcissistic Butterfly' as an example of the simpler pieces on display. Others were more elaborate still, and I could have spent hours looking at them - but I didn't have hours. The exhibition is on until mid-January, and I might try to revisit it...
This Final Twist is another Brennand-Wood piece; and what these circular artworks reminded me of was...
Last night we watched a slight but quite charming television programme called Still Folk Dancing... After All These Years in which Rachel and Becky Unthank tour the country being girlish and meeting morris sides and other traditional dancers. Among the people they met were the Saddleworth Morris, who say on their web site: "Saddleworth Morris men are easily identified, Primarily due to our decorated bowler hats, which each man decorates with fresh flowers, each time we turn out." Here's another picture, and another.
Do you think they are by any chance related?
We visited the dli art gallery this afternoon, not so much for the current exhibition as for Gail-Nina's talk on William Morris. But there were a two artists in he exhibition whose work I enjoyed.
Adam King's piece on the staircase had been created especially for the exhibition - and I was going to say that this was obvious, that this fragile structure of colour and foil and glitter and playing cards could obviously not be moved from one place to another, but the PDF which accompanies this travelling exhibition names it as Ambivalent Apocalypse and dates it 2008-9, so they must have managed it somehow. There's an illustration in the PDF if you search for it, or Shelf Life is pretty similar: but the work is large and detailed, and the confusion which is exhilarating in the real thing just looks muddled in the photographs.
Michael Brennand-Wood's pieces are smaller and bolder, and even more vividly coloured. (The PDF opens with one of these). Strictly, the first items we saw, before we entered the exhibition proper, were his embroidered badges, as large as the palm of my hand, with designs in which 70s hippy motifs collide with the imagery of the Day of the Dead. The gallery on Brennand-Wood's website is designed to be visually striking but almost impossible to use, but I am a professional, and therefore offer you his Flower Head - Narcissistic Butterfly' as an example of the simpler pieces on display. Others were more elaborate still, and I could have spent hours looking at them - but I didn't have hours. The exhibition is on until mid-January, and I might try to revisit it...
This Final Twist is another Brennand-Wood piece; and what these circular artworks reminded me of was...
Last night we watched a slight but quite charming television programme called Still Folk Dancing... After All These Years in which Rachel and Becky Unthank tour the country being girlish and meeting morris sides and other traditional dancers. Among the people they met were the Saddleworth Morris, who say on their web site: "Saddleworth Morris men are easily identified, Primarily due to our decorated bowler hats, which each man decorates with fresh flowers, each time we turn out." Here's another picture, and another.Do you think they are by any chance related?
