Workshop at the weekend…

Sue Lawty will be running a free, drop in Family Art Workshop this weekend.

In the Waterhall Seminar Room, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

14 November from 11am

15 November from 1pm

Natural Order

Every living thing has specific individual qualities of form, colour and texture.

We will explore rhythmic design and pattern using natural materials like leaves, twigs and seed heads…

Each pattern will be photographed before being dismantled and a gallery of ideas gradually built up over the week end.

Repeatedly using the same marks allows refreshing freedom and non-precious attitude to drawing and design work.

Exhibition commissions…

A number of the artists and makers in the exhibition have been commissioned to make new works. I will focus on each of the artists and their new works in a series over the next month…beginning with Sue Lawty.

These works can also be found in the exhibitor pages…

Calculus

2009

2 x 3 m

natural stone on gesso

(photo credit: John Coombes)

 

Calculus Sue Lawty

“…To see a World in a Grain of Sand…”

William Blake

I wanted to take something tiny & insignificant; very small stones unnoticed underfoot on beach, out of context… and through repetition and scale of work,

subject the viewer to be made small in their presence.

Each tiny insignificant speck of stone bears witness to the vastness of geological time. Time so immense it renders us, humankind, as the real speck;

ourselves an insignificant blip in the earth’s history.

The original rock would have been formed and then subsequently broken down and eroded over millions of years. Each resultant gravelly mark of stone

has been rumbled and rolled, tossed and turned, pounded and shoved relentlessly in and out on tides twice a day, every day for years…  until now…

halted on the verge of becoming sand.

Calculus:

- the study of change in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of equations

- a branch of mathematics originally based on the summation of infinitesimal differences.

- a particular method / system / logic of calculation or reasoning

- Latin for small stone

You can read more from Sue on her blog

 

Thanks also to

the exhibition designers hyperkit who have done a fantastic job designing the identity for all the graphic elements of the project, the catalogue and the exhibition design.

Visit their website to find out more about the identity that they created for us.

from the hyperkit website

from the hyperkit website