Time - An exhibition of works by Kathy Clare, Alison Cumberbirch and Kate Kay
A joint exhibition of work by three friends who each express themselves through a different medium.
Tuesday 29th April - Sunday 4th May, Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 4pm, Sunday 10am - 3pm.
The Setting gallery and Plot café, Three Storeys, Old Bristol Rd, Nailsworth, GL6 0JE
Three women drawn together twelve years ago by chance on a beginner’s art access course went on to complete a Masters together. Now they are reunited, seeking to make sense of these changing times. Expressing their experience of the impact of time passing for each one of them, they are now reflecting on their past and looking forward to what the future holds for them.
Kathy Clare
Kathy Clare
Studying Fine Art gave me a new lease of life and opened the door to so many new opportunities. I love being part of an artist community of likeminded people, making new friends along the way. I enjoy the complex process of making by casting and sculpting in porcelain. Once created, the pieces are refined with finer details of the domestic settings of my childhood memories. Precious memories kept safely within a delicate material, giving them the empathy they deserve. My work portrays a sense of loss, not being able to return to the golden years, that safe place of childhood. I return in my artwork, preserving moments of my memories to stop them fading in time and recollection.
Alison Cumberbirch
Alison Cumberbirch
As a child I loved all kinds of stories … I gobbled them up and still do. From fairy tales/myths/allegorical/domestic/historical/personal…there’s something about storytelling that has continued to compel me. The other thing I loved as a child was playing with drawing, colouring, cutting and sticking; making dolls to colour in and play dressing with was especially enjoyed. Over time I lost this connection between stories and making which I re-discovered when I joined the Art Access course and continued to develop during my MA in Visual Communication. Drawing on multimedia surfaces I have experimented with introducing movement and 3 dimensions. I have created characters and placed them into scenes. Some playful, humorous or dark / real or imagined propelling me towards playing with toy metaphors such as paper dolls/ puppets/ building bricks/ pop up books. This project has been a joyful reconnection with the timeless worlds of story and play.
Kate Kay
Kate Kay
Kate ended her working life as a senior Lawyer in 2011. A chance summer school at Stroud College led to a decade of creativity, an MA in Fine Art and more importantly friendships which have lasted for over 15 years. She said “It was glass that got me into this. A magical recyclable material made out of soda, lime and sand which metamorphoses into a glowing non crystalline solid which shapeshifts into any form. It is glass that I have returned to combined with breath which is automatic invisible constant and unremitting as time.