By Keef Williamson
Farsley’s Sunny Bank Mills Gallery has a new exhibition running, which opened yesterday and runs until Christmas Eve.
Entitled Broken//Makeshift, the exhibition ‘celebrates contemporary craft by finding the beauty in everyday objects and explores how our emotional attachment to them can survive a break, fracture, or tear.’
The exhibition features work from 15 different artists, many of them Leeds-based.
The pieces are created in several media including textiles and ceramics as well as items of
furniture and jewellery. highlights include Abdulrazaq Awofeso’s wooden pallets upcycled
to resemble items of clothing; Isobel Jane Kimberley’s quilt made from numerous hand-
written shopping lists; Megan Preston-Davies presents a rocking horse sculpture that is
close to the size of an actual horse.
If all this has worn you out, there’s a bed enclosed in beautifully designed hand-printed
fabric.
The piece is called Iconic Fatigue and it’s a collaboration between lead artist Ellie Harrison, designer Bethany Wells, textile designer Hester Simpson and sound designer James Cooper.
Together with Matt Rogers and Dr Lucy Prodgers they are known as Polite Rebellion and visitors are invited to take off their shoes, lie down on the bed, don a pair of headphones and listen to all or part of a 54-minute sound loop.
There’s also a program of events to accompany the exhibition. Visit the Sunny Bank Mills website for more information.
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