Shell-Lit Siambr
Solo exhibition across four rooms
October – November 2017
Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
The accompanying publication, designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio, contains specially commissioned essays by curator Katie McGown and poet Jack Underwood, with fragments by me.
The body of the Moon which was below writhed, as it were in anxiety… Afterwards it resumed its proper state. 2017
Acrylic, bronze powder on canvas.
But when they got there it had already been stoved in, 2017
Glazed stoneware with onglaze painting, Welsh slate.
“Dresser” & This Must Be The Place
Black clay; needlepoint, Indian ink, pencil, acrylic and wax crayon on linen
Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees
Glazed black clay, joss sticks
Hüske
Terracotta
The smoke from the incense would envelope the mountain like a kind of supernatural fog (Hill Censer)
Glazed porcelain, onglaze painting
Conch
Glazed porcelain
Lead Scallop Ghost
Lead, glazed stoneware with onglaze painting
Lemon Fresh
Stained parian porcelain, lead, Welsh slate
Coals
Glazed porcelain, onglaze painting
All 2017
Cover, 2017
Stoneware, needlepoint on linen, lead weights.
Lit, 2017
Stained stoneware, glazed porcelain
Medieval lead pilgrim badges including ‘Our Lady of Bologna in Crescent Moon’ kindly loaned by Canterbury Museums and Galleries.
on the hard tread of the silex / on the heavy tread of the mound, 2017
Glazed porcelain, velvet quilt
Lit, 2017
Stained stoneware, glazed porcelain
The herbs under the bed-like were cut from Canterbury herb garden. They are Tansy, Valerian, Lady’s Bedstraw, Wormwood and Rue. The garden lies underneath what was the monks’ dormitory, so there are traces of sleeping monks hovering above it.
I asked Head Gardener Philip Oostenbrink to tell me something remarkable about his job, he said “yesterday a lady cried over a plant”.
She will be fine on there. Forever. 2017 Glazed stoneware with onglaze painting
Left
Bee bole, 2017
Acrylic, bronze powder on canvas
Lemon Bell, 2017
Stoneware, cord
Bleach, 2017
Pastel on canvas
The Pilgrim
Thomas Stothard RA
Around 1830
Kindly loaned to Shell-Lit Siambr by Canterbury Museums and Galleries
Echolocation Curtain, 2017
Acrylic, pastel on canvas
The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave, William Blake, engraving bought from RSPCA shop, Canterbury
Torches made by Gelert – Outdoors company founded 1975, Beddgelert, North Wales. Beddgelert means Gelert’s Grave; Gelert is the dog in the saddest of all stories.
Showcave, 2017
Marbled slip on stoneware, candles
Installed as a group of seven, to be explored with torchlight.
Photography, Shaun Vincent
