July Exhibitions at Artizan

Continuing our 2022 Bursary programme, July will see us hosting three separate exhibitions across all three spaces.

The Art of Printmaking in the main gallery welcomes Mandi Street, Kevin Wright, Steve Manning, and Georgina Fay, and celebrates the diverse nature of printmaking, with the exhibiting artists all demonstrating the unique results that are achieved through the various explorations of an artform that is hundreds of years old.

The starting point for each of them is that traditional practice of printmaking, with each then producing work on different themes and contexts.
Works on display will include linocuts, lithographs and etchings

In our Garden Gallery we shall be welcoming tow Cambridgeshire based artists who are showing work together for the first time following an invitation from Artizan.

Sarah Strachan explores her ideas through printmaking, painting, and ceramics and is interested in how perception affects our ecological awareness and thinking. Working with clay (manufactured, recycled or wild) allows her to explore issues of materiality and sustainability.

Her work seeks to disrupt habitual perspectives through the liminality of the objects and spaces she creates

Kirsten has been a professional artist since 1991 when she graduated from Dartington College of Art, Devon, with a first-class degree in Art and Social Contexts.

Admitting the Possibilities of Error is an ongoing series of conceptual drawings which she began in 2013, each of which marks a different circumstance or event - some quotidian - the happenstance of an accidental mark, the line produced by a particular pen, others momentous: turning sixty, a solar eclipse, the war in Ukraine.

Beginning with the outline of a circle, which she tries to copy perfectly, each forms a meditation on fallibility; 'I am not perfect, my mind wanders, my hand wobbles, I make mistakes. In creating them I 'admit errors', giving my limitations latitude and celebrating the resulting patterns, recalling as they do fingerprints, tree rings or map contours. Rather than frustration realising them brings me focus, humility and comfort.'

Finally, in our basement gallery we welcome Edinburgh based artist Jenny Pope with her Exhibition, 'Tools to Evoke Change', a celebration of found objects, car boot sales, old men's sheds and recycling. It is a playful collection of constructed imaginary self-help tools, the emotional made physical. Part worry beads, part talismans this eccentric cabinet of curiosities will give you a rueful smile.

There will be a launch event on Friday 8th July 6-8 pm and the exhibitions will run from 9th – 30th July

Tuesday – Saturday 11 am – 5 pm

More details on the exhibitions can be found at:

www.art-hub.co.uk/ex/print22

www.art-hub.co.uk/ex/form22

www.art-hub.co.uk/ex/change22