PAST EVENTS: MST23 SPRING
EMMA STOTHARD
Judges submission - "Howl" On display in Dalby forest now
Galvanised wire allows for a wider variety of finishes than Emma’s other favoured materials. The mild steel naturally mellows to a subtle silvery-grey, which, Emma says, particularly sings against dark areas of the landscape.
CHRIS ATKINSON-OXBERRY
"Hare" On display in Dalby forest now
Hare
This sculpture is made from wire and papier mache, covered in the music score of Chopin and he was originally commissioned for Florian Poirot's Easter window and the visit of King Charles III. Chris at La maison rustique creates sculptures out of driftwood sourced from the Yorkshire coastline and recycled materials.
HERMIONE CROWE
"Discarded" On display in Dalby forest now
The piece is about not throwing away out-of-commission art work, and creating something that people can interact with. Textiles is such a tactile form of art and I wanted to create something people could have fun with.The knitting has been used for previous sculptures and has been reformed with metal wire stitched in to be shaped as if scrunched up like a piece of paper, thrown away. It also reflects on the idea that there can be beauty in things we discard and that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” .
JACQUI BARROWCLIFFE
"Temporary surface" Judges submission. On display in Dalby forest now
“Temporary surface” considers our relationship to the earth’s surface and our impact on it, particularly in the context of climate change. For this piece the artist has used the photographic process cyanotype and has used the land itself to make its own mark on old local maps coated with chemicals sensitive to sunlight. Details of the resulting images are then blown up and displayed as temporary road signs. Reflecting on the processes that shape and affect landforms, particularly with regards to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, this work asks us to view our surroundings in the wider scale of time, and consider how the land around us has changed and will change in our own lifetime, but also in the millions of years before and after us.
IONA STOCK
"Donut"
While as an artist in residency at The University of Sunderland as part of an AA2A Scheme,Iona Stock has been continuing to explore scale, form and colour. Pushing scale on the potter's wheel Iona has joined different thrown components together to create this sculptural vessel which consists of a hollow donut in its centre supported by two straight cylindrical vessels. Resulting in a fantastic mix of straight and curved surfaces with a framed hollow space in its centre.
Iona uses specialist silicon carbide glazes, which are layered in
complimentary turquoises,greens, dark blues and golden browns. Once fired this generates a fantastic surface finish with a variety of different textures and colour combinations due to the overlapping and layering of the glazes.
JESS HARGREAVES
"Unhemmed"
Two textile pieces made from dyed linen paper, collaged and sewn together. Draped over one another on line of twine.
Jess Hargreaves is a is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Blackburn, Lancashire and currently residing in York. In her work she explores areas of ‘inbetweeness.’ The spaces between different mediums and social intersections. Her practice is predominantly from the perspective of working-class feminism and enthusiasm of DIY culture, historical contextsfrom the mill towns of the North West and materials that synthesise with that background.Unconventional materiality and the ambiguity of where the work situates is a practice research she is highly interested in continuously exploring.
JOHN CUTTING
"Perception" On display in Dalby forest now
Salvaged chain- steel x 1 & Stainless-steel x 2 bases. 'Perception' challenges our views of how both mainstream and marginalised people see each other. It does this by
expressing different viewpoints of the same entity. As you look at the installation, we need to look closer at the bodies enslaved by symbolic chains. Bodies and minds can be percieved and transformed by life's challenges. Both percieve each other from their own unique perspective. One figure is dominant, vibrant, confident in the world.The other, less self-assured, appears to be in great pain. But both are in transition? They're both on a journey of life's discovery. Life is a process, there are many ups and downs. There are great moments on top of mountains and moments in deep valleys of despair. The artist hopes, as the viewer takes time, a different perception of what is going on will emerge.
LUCY SAGGERS
"Threshing long straw for thatching - Huddersfield"
Lucy is a British documentary and portrait photographer based in Ampleforth, North Yorkshire. She is drawn to the interwoven stories of people and their landscape: the impressions we leave on each other, on the land, and the marks that a place may leave on us. Informed by a background in nature conservation and rural development she works to build understanding and trust with the people she photographs, allowing natural authenticity into her portraits. Using a handheld camera and available light she seeks to highlight the texture, light and essence of a scene.
MELANIE BENN
"Prototaxites" On display in Dalby forest now
It was walking in the forests with my dog I saw decay and regeneration such as the silver birch decomposing and the fungi that grew on the logs. I undertook research and I found ‘Prototaxites’ an ancient mushroom which grew metres tall. I went on to recreate these using Paperclay. I made my own Paperclay using cotton linter a publishing paper that has a strong tensile quality , this prevents the clay from crumbling when a fine sheet of clay is been used for some of my clay trunks.
This is an ongoing project and inspired by the decomposing Silver Birch.
MICHAEL BENNETT
"Flower" On display in Dalby forest now
Born in Rotherham, a Yorkshire lad through, and through, I found I always had a creative hand and mind I began crafting metal in 2012, after dropping a successful career for a simpler more wholesome life. My first project was a simple blacksmith rose. The process was great fun, but saying I burnt myself a few times was a bit of an understatement.I began to realize that hitting metal with a hammer was working wonders for my mental health and general well-being (apart from the odd burn ) it was becoming clear to me that I needed an outlet as time went on,I was learning more and more blacksmithing and welding techniques and loving it! I class myself as a modern metalworker using both old and new ways of forming metal from an ethical standpoint.
MOLLY OWEN
"Pathway of the Beetles (Llwybr y chwilod)" On display in Dalby forest now
Inspired by how nature works together, Pathway of the Beetles is a look at how plants reach out to one another creating highways for insects. Using yarn and beads, this work celebrates the biodiversity of forests and how different species collaborate- from the smallest of ants to the largest of trees.
PIERS EDSALL
"Ancestors" On display in Dalby forest now
Piers is a 3D artist working with a variety of materials including metal and wood. He enjoys making weird and abstract sculptures that inspire conversations about functionality and aesthetic. Known to dabble with interactive art, occasionally introducing elements of coding and technology to produce physics wobbling effects and truly multidimensional pieces.Sustainability and minimal environmental impact are important to his practice, he upcycles/recycles or saves materials from landfill to create his work, which adds an extra feeling of distortion and obscurity to the pieces and a playfulness to how these materials are repurposed.
RACHEL RIMMEL
Sub|Merge
Sub|Merge explores the impact of time and memory on our associations with
place - in particular the seascape. Documenting the degradation of three large format negatives in seawater - depicting self-portraits holding a hagstone, traditionally associated as a portal to the past, and before and after immersion in the sea - the film merges past, present and future as slowly new memories and associations merge and emerge, connecting us to the vast of the seascape beyond the confines of our physical body.
ALICE BALLINGER
You are what you eat
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SALLY TAYLOR
Headblocker
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RACHEL RENWICK
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