June 17th – June 27th, 10am – 4pm,
As part of the Ground Works exhibition series.
The Setting, Three Storeys, Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 OJE
Image credit: Jane Ponsford
Earthbound: a fascination with what lies beneath our feet
Artists: Jane Ponsford and Kim Norton
‘Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hour march to dinner...and then thinking’
(William Hazlitt)
Join artist/papermaker Jane Ponsford and ceramicist/curator Kim Norton as they explore the similarities and differences in their approach to working with landscape and place. Both Jane and Kim work with materials collected or foraged from different environments to explore materiality and their site-specific creative responses.
They have been engaged for 12 months in a collaborative exchange project, called A6. This involved each sending a series of parcels of collected and made objects, to which the other would respond. The only rule was that they work within the A6 paper format.
The collections and responses, along with photography and written works, will be shown alongside the ‘in-conversation’ event.
‘The artist enters a specific state of mind when he is walking, enabling a creative space to appear. There is a reduction in conscious attention, a letting go, and the mind is able to slip into a different gear.’
(On The Track of Richard Long – Juliet Miller)
Image credit: Alison Proctor
Image credit: Jane Ponsford