On the Brink Show

As part of the Leytonstone Arts Trail 20 artists;myself included have made sculptures and installations.

For the On The Brink show.

The  details are:

Venue: Wanstead Quaker Meeting House
Starts: Saturday, July 2, 2016
Ends: Sunday, July 10, 2016
12-5pm
Address: Bush Road, E11 3AU, London...

It was a long day for me as I was installing a piece that is made of thread .It was raining that day and so I just decided to carry on .I hadn't realised the time and six hours had passed before I decided that I should finish up.Going back over the weekend to view it was good as the sun was shining and the light caught the coloured threads that made up the piece 'Ghost Net'.

The idea for the name came about after reading a piece in the Guardian which said about us being in the Anthropocene .A geological age where if a sample of the soil was taken ;would show our reliance on plastic.

This lead to ideas of Solastalgia; a term coined by Glenn Albrecht .To put it briefly it is the feeling of homesickness while still at home, where the speed at which man made and environmental change is so rapid that it is difficult to catch up with or comprehend .

For a much better explanation please see :

http://www.psychoterratica.com/solastalgia.html 

Reading around the subject and thinking about the impact we have on the environment I decided to make this piece .A 

'Ghost Net' is a fishing net that have either been lost or discarded and trap any marine life that encounters it.

The first picture is of my work I recommend looking at all of the work below;although this is only a small selection.If you wanted to visit please see the links below.There are lots of activities on for the Arts Trail until the 10th July.Also ,the festival is on at the same time:

 http://www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk/
More links below and list of the contributing artists.

 

https://www.facebook.com/onthebrink3D

https://twitter.com/Leytonstone_Art 

Venue: Wanstead Quaker Meeting House
Starts: Saturday, July 2, 2016
Ends: Sunday, July 10, 2016
12-5pm
Address: Bush Road, E11 3AU, London...

Organiser: Brett Banks, Mary Knight & Sira Cornejo Sz Ibarra

Participating Artists:
Martin Adams / Brett Banks / James Blackburn / Kath Cottee / Siobhan Davies / [dis]tinct project by children of Jenny Hammond Primary School / Jo Goddard / Kevin Hope / Sira Cornejo Sz Ibarra / Joanna Jagiello / John King / Mary Knight / Silvia Krupinska / Julia Maddison / Klaus Pinter / Helen Porter / Neba Sre / Sandie Sutton / Tracy Ward / Sean Worrell

Twenty artists are exhibiting installations and sculptures in this exhibition. Their skills have been applied to the topic of On the Brink. The results are wide ranging, vital and topical. Ecology, life in the office, housing, witches, insects, organic sculpture, refugees, a bed that has been made so someone must lie in it … Just a few of the stunning pieces in the woods. Go to the indoor exhibition, Art in the Making, by Quaker artists and Friends, then come down to find the sinister and fun.

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