For Sale
Ancient and Modern: Ali Holloway & Sharon Kearley 5th – 20th September
Sharon Kearley and Ali Holloway are contemporary textile artists with a shared fascination with weaving both as a material process and as a cultural language.
As part of Selvedge London textile month Sharon and Ali present Ancient and Modern: A Woven Dialogue in the gallery at Town House. By bringing their work into conversation, the exhibition explores the enduring relationship between weaving, landscape and memory.
Through natural fibres, plant dyes and experimental structures, the artists reflect on the timeless act of passing thread through thread, creating cloth as generations of makers have done before them. Set within a building deeply connected to London’s textile history, the exhibition invites visitors to consider weaving not simply as a craft, but as a living link between past and present, and as a continuing language of connection, place and shared human experience.
Wishful Thinking…..
The Lockdown Paintings of Nicholas Borden
The video of this exhibition has now been posted on Youtube:
Exhibition at Town House 19th June – 4th July, booking not required to visit the gallery
Town House welcomes Nicholas Borden back to the gallery here for an exhibition of his lockdown paintings. He always works from life, taking his easel out with him in rain or shine and he continued to work this way during lockdown, with added views from his windows. So of necessity, many of his subjects in Wishful Thinking were painted locally in East London where he lives – although he did occasionally venture further afield.
This way of working always lends a vibrancy and immediacy to Nicholas’ work that combine to convey a sense of ‘being there’ to the viewer. The works in this exhibition have a particular intensity however, perhaps the result of the circumstances and isolation imposed by lockdown, but also perhaps a response to a more urgent need he felt to record what he saw around him during the pandemic.
What Nicholas recorded in paint was what we all experienced in lockdown: going for a walk, visiting parks and looking at gardens whether from outside or in, the Wishful Thinking of the title for those who had no access to their own outdoor space.
Nicholas Borden’s exhibition ‘Wishful Thinking’ will be on sale at Town House in Fournier Street and on the home page of the website from Saturday 19th June – Sunday 4th July. Please note we will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays while restrictions remain in force. No booking necessary
Drawing of Belsen concentration camp by Feliks Topolski 1945
