point six six last day

Today is our last day. Thank you to everyone who has come and visited us, we are open till 4.30 today if you are at a lose end and want to see us.

Our first sales!

Friday was our first proper day of being open. We had a nice stream of people in and by the end of the day two of our artists had sold work Alice Finch and Lucy Hubbard.

Congratulations guys.

Spotlight on Alice Finch

Alice Finch

These figurative ceramic pieces and paintings are expressing the complicated relationship between women and the beauty industry. The ropes made of flax are meant to represent a woman’s hair plaited and then utalized by it’s time consuming nature, to bind and restrain the woman from persuing more productive activities.

I found this old fashioned method of advertising with fear still being utalised by cosmetic and fashion companies. The continued pressure for women to perform is cemented in the cultural fibre by increasing the importance of “engineered beauty” and ridiculing public female figures for not attaining the “standard” demanded by the Industry.

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth” Lenin.

This dehumanising of a women’s body into public property has bound the everyday women into a constant battle to maintain a “beauty ideal” or she has failed as a women.

“Men look at women .Women watch themselves being looked at( in modern media)”Critic John Berger.
The option is to opt into the beauty motived crowd or face continuous alienation from the social norm thus creating a perpetual cycle of fear and undermined confidencein the female populace. Although gender roles set by media stereotypes are equally damaging to me , I felt there was a stronger visual to be explored with focusing on female themes.

Spotlight on Becca Jones

Becca Jones

The inspiration for my work is taken from nature, looking at macro patterns and repetition in circular/spherical forms in flowers and seedpods.
I make my work out of porcelain. By press moulding, texturing and sticking metal pins into the porcelain I make small scale vessels which are not functional. The pins are put into the clay before firing, and they come out quite brittle and matt blue/grey in colour, which, in my opinion, contrasts with the translucent white porcelain.

Spotlight on Danny Waples

Danny Waples

Meditations in thought?

My work portrays a level of conscious thought. Considered and composed to provide a datum, a point reference, where I am able to see the wood and the trees. Need and purpose for simplicity, an economy of orderly structure that is reflected through objects. Investigating balance and volumes positively and negatively, experimenting with transitions in plane, light and line. I am attempting to catch a moment, with movement, flow and energy; as the hand and the eye move around the object, to engage and focus, mentally and physically.

Working with white plaster, pure and clean, each piece feels like a hundred pencil sketches, but in every aspect better. The material represents questions of value, of how we perceive and judge. They have purpose and utility as illustrations of thought; in tokens, objects used as evidence, symbols defined with contents and meaning. Considering permanence, does the fragility of the plaster enhance a beauty in the transient nature of their and our existence, our thoughts and feelings?

Offering a direct connection, they are something you can hold on to and feel, as our perceptions can be deceiving. I want to hold on for a moment as through these I have found a peace and calm in a balance of complexities.

Eloquence in simplicity

Spotlight on Esther McLaughlin

Esther Mclaughlin

Half Cooked
My work is about capturing and highlighting the beauty of the last moments of an animal’s life before decay begins. The resin holds the artefacts in a moment, suspended amongst dust particles, unchangeable by time.
The title however, reflects where I feel my work stands at this current time; an exciting and fruitful idea, arrived just a little too late in the day for full realisation.

Opening Night

Last night we had our private view. It went really well with lots of people coming in to see our work. There was plenty of wine drunk, and hopefully contacts made. I spent a lovely hour this morning straightening the gallery and enjoying some quiet time in this lovely space. I shall be very sad to pack it all away on Monday.

We also managed to get a nice picture of the point six six crew.