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Bolt Court, a new installation on display at:

TWISTED:

A fresh encounter with contemporary craft

23rd July –21st August
Private View: Friday 22nd July from 5pm
Phoenix Brighton Gallery, Waterloo Place, Brighton. BN2 9NB

“The vogue for traditional crafts and textiles undoubtedly lies in putting them to new, distinctly non-traditional uses at the moment. Whether it’s a transitional phase or the future for makers and spinners, the ethos is perfectly encapsulated be the six artists involved in Twisted, who variously turn clay into cages, puppets into tableaux, sewing machines into drawing tools and fabrics into floating installations. Life size bodies, eerie walk- through installations and dreamlike, tactile worlds are among the results in an original and magical- looking show.”

Brighton Source

Twisted focuses on work by seven artists who employ traditional materials and techniques of textiles and ceramics, but manipulate and twist them into different forms, altered meanings and new directions. Wriggling out of the traditional domain of ‘craft’, these objects escape the plinth, shelf and glass cabinet, occupying the gallery as unconventional wall pieces and installations that you can walk through and explore.

Bolt Court is destined for a site in The Ceramic House and will be on permanent display and open to the public in May 2012. As with all the other permanent pieces so far installed into The Ceramic House, this piece was originally designed for another site/client. The name Bolt Court is derived from the place where it was made.

The Ceramic House is my latest personal project, the inauguration of which took place in May 2011 for Brighton Festival (Artists Open Houses). Over the next few years, my house will be transformed into a living showcase of my work with many permanent ceramics and glass installations filling the house and garden.

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