An exhibition with Alice Sheppard Fidler and Rebecca Stapleford

10th/11th/12th September  - as part of Heritage Open day
17th/ 18th/19th September - as part of Site Festival
24th/25th/26th September  - as part of Site Festival

Open 11am – 5pm, The Setting Gallery at Three Storeys, GL6 0JE

There is only a brief moment in time when a building, undergoing works, is truly raw. 

The process of deconstructing, though messy and chaotic, reveals hidden stories, shadows and imprints. Beams and floorboards encounter each other anew to engage in fresh dialogues. 

leave/stay/arrive is an exhibition that provokes discussions on the value of changing spaces, probing what constitutes historical merit. It invites the public to shift their focus from the newly refurbished building and remember its historical layers. 

Through movement, sound recordings, photography and video work, Sheppard Fidler + Stapleford respond to the environment in its state of flux, focusing in on the bare bones and overlooked details. 

The works presented record the emptiness of the past which is in fact full.  

The exhibition is free and there is no need to book. However, tickets for the free open panel discussion with Mike Harvey (Nailsworth Archives), Nicki Schmiegelow (Three Storeys owner) & Oliver Clissold (Nailsworth Brewery Family), on Sat, 19th September at 3pm, can be booked here. Tickets for the free Artists Talks on either Saturday 11th September or Sunday 26th September can be booked here.

9th-20th Jun and 26th-27th Jun 2021, 11am – 6pm

Storey Makers studios and elsewhere in the building, Three Storeys, GL6 OJE

We will be hosting a number of artists for the Select Arts Presents open studios trail, with some of our residents opening their doors, and further guest artists joining them. Come to get a taste of our studio spaces and the work being created within them. Here is a glimpse of some of the contributors, and we also have the Ground Works ‘Earthbound’ and ‘Landlinks’ exhibitions running in our gallery at the same time.

Clare Bassett, fine art and jewellery
www.clarebassett.com

Clare has been working for over thirty years creating lithographs, screenprints and oil paintings of monumental female figures. Her prints are limited editions and each one is hand-printed and then hand-coloured in her studios. She works in London and Gloucestershire.  She has also created a series of work responding to live dance movement. This rapid, gestural, abstract work is an interesting foil to the studied figurative pieces.

More recently Clare has developed a practice in silver, semi-precious stone and enamelled jewellery. This has been an interesting exploration of a more decorative form of art.

Nicki Schmiegelow, knitted textiles
www.nickischmiegelow.com

Having moved recently to her studio at Three Storeys, Nicki is experimenting with local fibres and developing new work inspired by the Five Valleys wool history. She also continues to produce her signature pieces in 100% lambswool for personal and domestic use.

Susie Hetherington, patterned textiles and lino prints
www.susiehetherington.co.uk

Susie Hetherington is a multi disciplinary designer, inspired by her rural surroundings and the beauty found in nature's fine detail. Her passion for the Arts and Crafts movement is evident in her flowing repeat patterns and methods; she hand carves complex blocks to create her work. Susie's textiles are reproduced as soft furnishings fabrics and homewares, but she also creates stand-alone lino prints. Susie is also the designer for Three Storeys; naming, branding and designing interiors for the venue.

Julia Godden, paintings
www.juliagoddenart.com

Julia writes: "I create emotive, abstract paintings from my own stories and experiences of the world around me. The finished pieces are, however, open to interpretation and evoke feelings and thoughts where you are taken in through the lens of your imagination. I believe the viewer responds to art that is imbued with personal elements and can make a connection. It is my hope that my paintings will elicit and stir many varied feelings in the viewer"

Jo Duck, ceramics
www.joduckdesign.co.uk

Jo Duck is a ceramic artist working in stoneware clay. She uses the potters wheel as well as hand building items that are both decorative and useable in the home. These consist of mugs, jugs, bowls, and much more. Jo’s degree in textile design is reflected through her ceramic work with bespoke hand painted items. Drawing inspiration from the local architecture and the natural world, small sculptured animals can also be found on her work.

Also exhibiting (more details to follow)…

Vanessa Fawcett, painter
www.vanessafawcettart.com

Barbara Spence, jewellery
www.barbaraspence.co.uk

Peaches Doble
@peachdoble

Susan Wilkinson
@susanwilkinsonsilver

June 17th – June 27th, 10am – 4pm,

As part of the Ground Works exhibition series.
The Setting, Three Storeys, Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 OJE

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) 

Groundworks.org.uk
janeponsfordstudio.com
kimnorton.co.uk

June 17th – June 27th, 10am – 4pm

As part of the Ground Works exhibition series.
The Setting gallery and The Plot café, Three Storeys, Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 OJE

Ground Works will be welcoming artists and writers whose inspiration and concern is for our landscape and environment.

The exhibition and events aim to examine our collective response to landscape and place, how we react to exterior spaces and the impact of our changing environment. Through engagement with various art media, practises and approaches, we wish to encourage discussion and observation between artists and community.

Curated by Kel Portman of ‘Walking the Land’ & Lizzi Walton.

Landlinks

The unattached landscape. ‘Landlinks’ represent work made by over 20 walking artists, international and national, and was synchronised to take place over several continents.

Artists responded to a ‘time/distance walking script’ - adhering to various ‘prompts’ that governed their progress and choices, forcing them to let go of the desire to find the definitive subject and to leave that choice to chance.

Groundworks.org.uk