gold and silver

These grasses in the garden look quite drab in the winter but shimmer gold and silver as soon as they dry out with a bit of early spring sunshine...

greenroom exhibition: still here

The Blank Media Collective is curating an exhibition of Susan's work at the greenroom in Manchester.  The greenroom is an alternative performance theatre and bar near the Cornerhouse in the city centre. The exhibition will feature the still here series made last year plus a few other, yet to be decided, pieces.
There will be a public preview on Wednesday 16th February, 6 - 9pm and then the exhibition continues until 16th April.

Celebrating Imbolc

On 2nd of February the gallery at Duckett & Jeffreys was illuminated by colour from Maria Silmon's VJ set celebrating the solar festival of Imbolc.

Imbolc is one of the ancient solar festivals and heralds the return of the light. The growing power of the sun brings a 'quickening' of life force in seeds beneath the frozen earth and the sap rising in the trees after their winter dormancy heralds the return of Spring. The images were projected on to our sculptures, shown here: sundance, as part of the Quickening exhibition.
photos: maria silmon and stef mitchell

Landmarks...or maybe not?

Walking round one of the sand quarries near here we were struck by the brightness this orange bag brought to a very wet and gloomy January day. Waste plastic a strange choice for enhancing the landscape I know! This led to a few more photos of less obvious 'landmarks'...

Sculptures in residence at The Midland Hotel

We went to Manchester yesterday to see how our sculptures look displayed in the grand lobby of the Midland Hotel. The four pieces: Spindrift, Sprite, Solaris and Flight  are on loan through Visual run by Arts & Business, who aim to create partnerships between commerce and culture. The work will be on show until 14th April.

Quickening: now on at Duckett & Jeffreys

Thank you to every body who came to the Private View for Quickening on Wednesday night. It was great to feel the buzz of conversation in the gallery after a busy couple of days setting up.

Quickening: a new exhibition for the New Year.

Best wishes for 2011!
We have an exhibition in collaboration with digital artist and VJ Maria Silmon starting next week at Duckett & Jeffreys Gallery in Malton, North Yorkshire. Quickening is inspired by the time of Imbolc solar festival, the moment in the year when the sun, after the stillness and dormancy of winter, begins to noticeably rise higher on the horizon towards it’s zenith at mid-summer. It’s rays stimulate the earth into the new energy of spring, quickening it’s life-force and bringing the first stirrings of action to the seeds beneath the earth. We will be showing sculptures along side Maria's sound and video work and are really excited to be collaborating in this way. The exhibition is on until the 19th February.