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Esme Hamer: Screen II 21 x 29cm acrylic yarn, £115
Esme Hamer: Screen III 21 x 29cm acrylic yarn, £115
Inter Woven: 9th – 30th July
Interwoven brings together 7 contemporary textile artists using traditional craft techniques to reinterpret the present. The work featured spans beading, weaving, textile printing and crochet. Through reconnection with this slow, labour-intensive way of working the artists question the rapid pace of contemporary technology and invite time for reflection.
The artworks highlight textile craft not as a fixed tradition but as an evolving conversation between materials, makers and the world we inhabit. Familiar techniques become investigations of ecology, technology, domestic space, memory and social history. The results challenge expectations and demonstrate that craft is not simply a method of production but a way of questioning, recording and connecting.
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