A collaboration created from nature's own art supplies, 'Paint Cloth and Clay', a new exhibition at the Gloucester Gallery, brings together works of art across canvas, clay and cotton.
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Wingham artists Yvette and Peter Hugill, who have been known to collaborate in the past having exhibited in Gloucester in 2015, are joining forces with Old Bar contemporary printmaker, Ali Haigh for this new exhibition.
"We both did well at the last Gloucester exhibition," Yvette said. "Fifty per cent of the people who came in were tourists," Peter commented.
This show is off the back of Peter and Yvette's recent successful collaboration, 'Cohesive' at the Manning Regional Art Gallery at Taree late last year.
Yvette brings her rural landscape inspired paintings incorporating various styles; fine pastel lines on paper inspired by sunlight and shadows, acrylics to create bold stylised landscapes reflecting the shapes of the trees almost as symbols of nature and oils used both traditionally and contemporary in technique.
"Most of the work that’s in it are local landscapes (some from the Gloucester region), and there’s a couple of still-lifes," Yvette said.
Peter contributes his handcrafted earthy domestic pottery as well as decorative pieces, using stoneware and porcelain; some carrying sgraffito decoration (a form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting colour or in slip on ceramics before firing), while the stoneware may have unusually coloured bright glaze or subtle earthy tones, in either case the shapes are elegant and strong.
Ali's textiles, referencing patterns in nature and producing prints not unlike Marrimeko fabrics, will be on display for the first time in Gloucester. Her portfolio of work is informed by a project she began in 2015 called 'Collaborate365', where she created an ephemeral artwork in nature everyday for one year and recorded her process digitally through a blog. Ephemeral art is usually a work of art that only occurs once, like a happening, and cannot be embodied in any lasting object to be shown in a museum or gallery. Ali’s work explores the processes of collagraph, linoprint and montypes within her works on paper, while on fabric she uses a combination of digital and simple hand print methods to create repeat prints from the images she captures.
The exhibition runs from February 28 until March 24 at Gloucester Gallery, 25 Denison Street, open from Wednesday to Saturday 10am until 4pm and Sunday 10am until 1pm. The official opening on Saturday, March 2 from 2pm.