Styled: Women and Costume on Canvas in the 17th Century
19 Feb to 12 May 2024
Moyse’s Hall Museum
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP33 1DX
open Mondays to Saturdays 10am - 5pm, Sundays 12 pm - 4pm
I have been responding to the paintings and objects in the exhibition to create artworks that bring the past to within touching distance.
The Miniatures
There is some evidence that Charles Beale Jnr spent all or part of his first two years with a wet nurse. I wondered what it must be like for a mother to send her baby away and have a small child returned to her.
I created a series of stitched portraits of my grandson, capturing moments during his first year. I mounted these into vintage powder compacts. An object that women carried around, a suggestion of intimacy, something to keep close. As you look into the mirror the child appears beside you, reunited for a moment.
Hand stitched and painted onto cotton fabric, vintage powder compacts
Past Exhibitions.
Beneath The Surface - The Forum, Norfolk 2024
The God of Small Things - 54 The Gallery, London 2024
Stitching Together the Stopher Story - Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre, Essex 2023
An Autobiography in Cardboard - Red Lion Bookshop, Essex 2023
Face to Place - Anteros Foundation, Norfolk 2022
Between Two Worlds - Potton Hall, Suffolk 2022
Storytellers - Cavin Morris Gallery, New York 2022
Take Thick with the Light - The Hold, Suffolk 2021
In the Company of Trees - Artspace, Suffolk 2020
Conversations with Curators – Moyse’s Hall Museum, Suffolk 2020
The Poppy Walk – Melton, Suffolk 2017 and 2018
Frailty of Dreams - Ip Art Festival, Suffolk, 2009
Telling Tales - Pulse Festival, Suffolk, 2006
Beyond The Call of Duty - Town Hall Galleries, Suffolk, 2006
Platform 5 - Smith’s Row, Suffolk, 2005
Regeneration - WAG @ St Mary-at-the-Quay, Suffolk, 2005
Booksmakingbooks - Bookart Bookshop, London 2004
Juliet Lockhart
Oak, 2020
Cloth, wire, wood
22 x 8 x 2 inches
55.9 x 20.3 x 5.1 cm
STORY TELLERS: PUPPETS BY ARTISTS
Saturday 22nd January
Saturday 26th March 2022
CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY
529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
STORY TELLERS: Puppets by Artists was inspired by photographs of a collection of wonderful hand puppets made by Paul Klee for his family. Puppets take us back to a passionate period in our childhood when they were everything: the mediators between worlds, the tellers of stories that did not have to be logical or linear, the incarnations of tribal and cultural myths from the global human unconscious. As children, we were obsessed with the performance of Davey Jones Locker with the incredibly beautiful Bill Baird puppets when it premiered at Town Hall in New York, Baird created an entire underwater alternate universe. Those puppets were as magical and mysterious to us as the dioramas at the Museum of Natural History. They were literally ‘Hands On’.
Our idea for this exhibition was specific. We wanted to show non-whimsical puppets for adults. We wanted puppets with gristle; not Lambchop from Shari Lewis’ time on TV. We wanted something between the non-puppet poppets of witchcraft and the poupées of Michel Nedjar. We wanted a touch of global Dada. As Klee had achieved with his puppets, we wanted puppets borne by natural unfettered inspiration, the creators exercising the freedom of their varied intentionalities.
Now we are ready to show the first results of our efforts in the exhibition STORY TELLERS: Puppets by Artists, the first of a continuing program that will explore the many artists who play in this alternative yet basically human theater of magic, drama, and sophisticated beauty. Puppets range from the ephemeral and ethereal to the brutish manifestations of sacred monsters.
The participating artists in this showing are Abigail Brown, Larry Calkins, Maria Denjongpa, Jan Harrison, Juliet Lockhart, Jason Matherly, Kosmo Nauty, Brian Paccione, Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas Tait, Jean-François Veillard and Gregory Van Maanen.
We hope you enjoy this spotlighted experiment.
For further information please call us at 212-226-3768 or email us at info@cavinmorris.com.