ARTICULATED MATERIALS: BRIDGING WATERS is a travelling exhibition co-hosted by two textile groups. Articulation from Canada, and Material Girls from England. A commonality of major waterways in the respective countries was decided to be the theme and we selected the Bay of Fundy in the Maritimes, and they worked on the Thames River.
There have been 3 bookings in the UK through 2012, and it will travel to Canada for 2013 / 2014. We are currently working on securing gallery space.
The exhibition I attended was in Horndon-On-The-Hill in the Essex countryside, in a 400-year-old building called the Woolmarket Hall, in a small village on a hill. We took the Piccadilly tube to the end of the line (Upminister station) in a one hour train ride, then got picked up by Martin and Julie Chellingsworth who drove us about 20 minutes to the village. It was lovely to meet the ladies of Material Girls, they were all in attendance and so friendly.
The Woolmarket...
Upstairs the display walls held the art - we were limited to one 2D piece each to limit shipping costs...
They also added 3D pieces to fill in the exhibition (we Canadians will also do that in our country)...
Specialty pieces were Thames Sailing Barges (flat-bottom boats used in the 19 century, good for shallow waters as the Thames was still affected to the shifting tides)...
This is me with my piece, based upon the Hopewell Rocks in the Bay of Fundy...
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