Nearly Home Exhibition

I’m delighted to share that ‘Time for Tea‘ has been accepted for the ArtCan ‘Nearly Home’ exhibition in Spain by curators Catherine Fenton and Walk Bye founder Catalina Aranguren.

This digital exhibition takes place at the Mostrador de Mirasierra Gallery, Madrid, Spain, October 21 – November 20 2024.

Artists taking part in Nearly Home
Artists taking part in Nearly Home

“Mostrador de Mirasierra is a gallery cafe bar in an affluent area of Madrid. It is set over two floors and has a reputation for excellent art exhibitions in Madrid. In the basement level there is a large screen on which we will introduce ArtCan to Madrid by having the Walk Bye projection running throughout the month. We will also have a list of participating artists and a QR code to the ArtCan website on the wall next to the screen.” ArtCan.

Time for Tea is part of the Nearly Home Exhibition
Time for Tea is part of the Nearly Home Exhibition
Time for Tea
Time for Tea

Nearly Home Exhibition

“Nearly Home asks us to consider how, beyond the obvious structures of shelter, do we personally define the often intangible quality that gives each of us a feeling of belonging? How do some fortunate enough to have had a happy childhood home, consolidate the feeling of nostalgia, with a need to grow new roots? Whether displaced by circumstance or choice, we navigate the world physically and spiritually in search of home, a place where we are in tune with who we are and comfortable to welcome in the people we love.” Catherine and Catalina.

Curators

Catherine Fenton’s work frequently deals with issues surrounding the environment and human rights. Using collaged material relating to the subject, her paintings subtly draw the viewer in with colour and texture with the intention rousing further curiosity. Her paintings have been exhibited with the Just Water campaign in St Paul’s Cathedral London, along with exhibitions and installations for Greenpeace, Toilet Twinning and The Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture.

Joining ArtCan in 2016, Catherine is now the Philanthropic Programme Director and curated an ArtCan exhibition for The International Day of the Girl Child which combined a programme to engage disenfranchised women with the charity Hibiscus London.

Catalina Aranguren’s work is a documentation of the mundane. Her work is a dialogue about the modern world and our place in it. Because her childhood was a constant wavering between languages, cultures, and third and first worlds, on a daily basis, her work focuses on the relationship between the learned and the subconscious. Her work is in private collections across the United States, UK, Australia, Chile, Sweden and Colombia. She has exhibited across the Unites States as well as Turkey, Spain, UK, Canada and Sweden.

Catalina founded Walk Bye as collective outdoor art exhibition that invited creators to exhibit original work to be displayed outside their home or from a window visible to the public from a distance during the pandemic. Walk Bye continues to create exhibition opportunities and promote the work of artists to positively contribute to their careers. Catalina is a new member to ArtCan. She joined after moving to Madrid from New York.

Food for All Exhibition

I’m please to announce that four of my artworks have been selected for the Food for All exhibition at Kingshill House in Dursley, Gloucestershire.

KingsHill House
KingsHill House

The exhibition is on from the ​​Wednesday 26 October 2022 – Tuesday 28 February 2023.

A list of Artists taking part in the Food for All Exhibition
Artists taking part in the Food for All Exhibition

Food is an important part of culture and traditional cuisine is passed down from one generation to the next. Food tells us who we are, and where we’ve come from. It is what defines us, builds, and creates happy memories.

Food for All Exhibition, Kingshill House
Giant Cauliflower Harvest, part of the Food for All Exhibition
Giant Cauliflower Harvest, part of the Food for All Exhibition

The artworks on display include the Giant Cauliflower Harvest, Sound of the Kenwood Chef, Time for Tea and I had a special request from the curator for Lancashire Cheese and Onion Pie.

Time for Tea
Time for Tea

Update November 2022:

A quick update sharing the artwork at the exhibition.

Colour Exhibition – Swiss Fibre Art

I’m pleased to announce that Worker Bees and Sound of the Mill #1 & #2 are part of the Colour Exhibition curated by SwissFibreArt and Vielfaeltig-Produzentengalerie . The textile exhibition takes place at Galerie Kalina, Am Plat71 1, D-94209 Regen, Germany 2nd-30th July 2022.

Given that ‘Black, Grey & Yellow’ is the exhibition’s colour theme, the first thing that popped into my head was a Manchester worker bee, and because I wanted a slightly industrial and aged look to the work, I chose to stitch into eco printed cloth.

Colour Exhibition - Worker Bees -hand embroidered in vintage threads in yellow and slate grey
Colour Exhibition: Worker Bees – hand embroidered in vintage threads in yellow and slate grey.

I usually stitch in red thread, so this was a challenge for me. I liked the result so much that I created two companion pieces called Sound of the Mill #1 & #2. Each piece features Lancashire dialect poetry from ‘The Cotton Mill’ poem first published in The Bolton Chronicle in 1864.

Colour Exhibition: Sound of the Mill #1
Sound of the Mill #1
Sound of the Mill #2
Sound of the Mill #2

Galerie Kalina, Regen, Germany.

Exhibition catalogue
Exhibition catalogue
Regen Gallery space
Regen Gallery space
Worker Bee and Sound of the Mill
Worker Bee and Sound of the Mill
Exhibition review
Exhibition review

Following this exhibition, the artworks are travelling to a gallery in Switzerland.

Update August 2022:

Ortsmuseum Meilen, Zurich, Switzerland

The next leg of the exhibition tour, takes place at the Ortsmuseum Meilen, Zurich, Switzerland and starts on the 20th August 2022 and is on until early September.

Exhibition images courtesy of Vielfaeltig-Produzentengalerie

Here’s a brief video tour of the exhibition space in the Ortmuseum.

Local press article from ‘Meilener Anzeiger’ news outlet about the Colour exhibition

Thank you to Claudia Jäggi, SwissFiberArt and Vielfaeltig-Produzentengalerie for curating this international juried exhibition.