THIS IS A PAST EVENT
16th April to 19th June 2011
Three exciting textile exhibitions open at Nottingham Castle soon: Lost and Found; Remainders and Critical Cloth.
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Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery will host all three exhibitions from Saturday 16 April until Sunday June 19 2011.
Deborah Dean, Visual Arts/Exhibitions Manager at Nottingham City Council, said: "This season heads up three years of activity in which textiles - both contemporary and historical - will be a regular feature of the Castle's programme, reflecting this important aspect of Nottingham's history, as well as particular strengths in the City's collections. We're also delighted that one of the three exhibitions - Remainders - is an opportunity to continue our collaboration with Nottingham Trent University School of Art & Design."
Tanvi Kant, necklace Lost and Found brings together artists, Lucy Brown, Shelly Goldsmith, Amy Houghton, Tanvi Kant and Naoko Yoshimoto who each use garments and materials with a previous life.
They gather and select second hand clothing or the remnants from other people's making and then unpick, cut up unravel, re-weave and remake to produce work that touches on contemporary preoccupations with sustainability, recycling and repair. However, they all move beyond these concerns, to explore the capacity of textiles to absorb memory and emotion, and to retain the trace of past lives, journeys and incidents.
This exhibition is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council England.
Critical Cloth is an ambitious body of work by East Midlands-based Rhiannon Williams that casts a critical eye over our fast-paced, technologically-driven and economically-challenged world.
Works in this exhibition include My Loss is My Loss, a patchwork cloth made from lottery tickets; patchwork piece Money Talks where Williams stitches her way through the money crisis by making patches from used scratch cards and backing them with financial reports from daily newspapers and Reportage, a series of three necklaces, each made from thousands of small discs, cut from the articles and images of three daily newspapers. Money talks
This solo exhibition has been organised by the Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery and is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. It is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue, published by the University of Derby.
Remainders is a group exhibition by Richard Wentworth, Daniel Marcus Clark, Daniel Griffiths, Oliver Laric, Jon Smith, Patrick Ruckdeschel and Christopher Raeburn.
The exhibition subtly responds to the issues of recycling, commodity use and predestined obsoleteness. It is inspired by garments from Nottingham City Museums and Galleries' Costume and Textiles collection which are created from re-cycled. These are combined with diverse artefacts and contemporary art works, all linked by their transformation from objects with a former use, to their current state.
Accompanying the exhibition, Nottingham Castle is pleased to present new work commissioned from story teller and musician Daniel Marcus Clark. Clark has used the collection not only as a historical resource but as a basis on which to create a contemporary work that subverts the usual experience of sound in an art gallery.
Parachute ParkerRemainders has been curated by Ashley Gallant as part of a Masters programme, funded by Nottingham City Museums and Galleries in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University School of Art & Design. Support was also received from Igniting Ambition and the National Lottery through the Arts Council England.
The scope of the exhibition expands from its costume and textile base to include other objects which have been transformed and given new uses.
Accompanying these objects are artworks by contemporary artists Oliver Laric and Patrick Ruckdeschel, who have re-used the materials of history - books and filmed sequences of sporting events - and filtered them through new visual forms, questioning our relationships to the re-use of objects, images and memories.
Remainders asks us to rethink recycling, decoration, craft and the role of "the beautiful" as an innate survival instinct. It suggests that our history of re-use is a possible piece in the puzzle of a more sustainable future.
