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Lorraine Clewlow brings solo exhibition ‘You Might Like This…’ to Centrespace Gallery
“Art should be an experience open to all,” says Lorraine Clewlow ahead of her upcoming solo exhibition You Might Like This…, which comes to Centrespace Gallery on December 9.
While tending towards the abstract, her work is imbued with context and personal meaning; however, when it comes to external interpretation, she believes “there should never be a right or a wrong. I want my work to be approachable”.
Perhaps that explains the welcoming message underpinning Clewlow’s collection, which brings together several decades’ work.
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Lorraine Clewlow, Creative Block (barbed wire, 55x55x55cm) – photo: by the artist
Lorraine Clewlow, Symbiosis (steel, plaster, 30x30x50cm) -photo: by the artist
Primarily a sculptor, as an artist her work is diverse, mixing plasterwork, metalwork, ceramics, digital collage and photography, painting and drawing, sound, moving image and live art.
Inspired by the symbolism of time passing, memory and loss, reflection, philosophy, and the counterpoints of hope and fear, healing and decay, Clewlow’s work is nuanced and evocative.
Lorraine Clewlow, String Theory (I pull a thread…) sculpture/performance – photo: by the artist
Lorraine Clewlow with her works Torso, Memories IV and untitled – photo: Miles Harris
One of her pieces presents a cascade of tea bags, hanging down like a chandelier. “As the tea becomes part of the drinker, the spent tea bag becomes symbolic of that moment, the essence of the tea transformed into a memory of the experience.
“The dried tea bags represent fragments of life, capturing those points in time. They are from cups drunk over a cascade of years.”
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You Might Like This… by Lorraine Clewlow is at Centrespace Gallery from December 9-14. Opening night is 6-10pm; then the exhibition is open 10am-6pm daily.
There will be a free drop-in workshop from origami artist Alex Ray on December 10 at 10am-2pm.
Main photo: Lorraine Clewlow (On Reflection III: photograph on aluminium)
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