Solid Matter explores the alchemic premise: as above so below, drawing together three artists, Effie Burns, Jill Tate, and Katy Cole, each of whom show meticulous care and consideration in how they work with materials.
The exhibition suggests a conceptual expanding framework for how we relate to being in the world: through touch and handheld objects, through being enveloped in earthly built environments, and through being aware of our placement within the wider cosmos. The artists also play with the alchemy between the component materials of the universe that they use to make work. For example, the gold in Effie Burns’ sculptures is remnant star dust from neuron star collisions, the silica from enormous exploding stars. Jill Tate uses organic earth pigments such as Burnt Sienna, Orange Ochre, Red Umber and Titanium, a terracotta colour palate that deliberately evokes the literal and metaphysical ground from which everything emerges and returns. Katy Cole’s drawings of star constellations, intrinsically incorporate carbon from the dying stars from which the graphite is made.
Solid Matter: Effie Burns, Jill Tate and Katy Cole, runs from 12th May – 24th June, with our Preview event on Friday 12th May, 5-7.30pm to which we warmly invite you to attend.
The exhibition suggests a conceptual expanding framework for how we relate to being in the world: through touch and handheld objects, through being enveloped in earthly built environments, and through being aware of our placement within the wider cosmos. The artists also play with the alchemy between the component materials of the universe that they use to make work. For example, the gold in Effie Burns’ sculptures is remnant star dust from neuron star collisions, the silica from enormous exploding stars. Jill Tate uses organic earth pigments such as Burnt Sienna, Orange Ochre, Red Umber and Titanium, a terracotta colour palate that deliberately evokes the literal and metaphysical ground from which everything emerges and returns. Katy Cole’s drawings of star constellations, intrinsically incorporate carbon from the dying stars from which the graphite is made.
Solid Matter: Effie Burns, Jill Tate and Katy Cole, runs from 12th May – 24th June, with our Preview event on Friday 12th May, 5-7.30pm to which we warmly invite you to attend.
