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Things
Beastly.
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April - 10 May 2008
This exhibition
looks at the portrayal of animals in different media
by six women artists.
Christine Hoare uses porcelain to
create small, figures of dogs based on her own ,two
dogs. She deftly catches their movement and
expressions such as a tilt of the head, neck or
ears. As she models the figures, they take on a life
of their own, each with a distinctive personality,
delicate outline details and a feeling of
spontaneity, movement and interaction."
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Christine Hoare |
Sue Halls graduated from
the Royal College of Art (RCA) with
distinction in 1990. She is obsessed with
animals and goes out of her way to be near
them, to possess things connected with them
such as totems and effigies. "I feel a bond
with them so fundamental as to be axiomatic.
She uses paper clay mostly Raku fired to
explore the anthropomorphic qualities in her
work.
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Sue Halls |
Catrin Howell
also graduated from the RCA. She has long used the
strong symbolic and mythological traditions of
Wales, with her ceramic animal forms referring to
the powerful narratives of ancient Welsh literary
works. Her recent works have further distilled these
animal forms to wall-mounted heads which, far from
connotations of the triumphalism of hunting
trophies, convey a sense of vulnerability and
melancholy.
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Catrin Howell |
Cathy Miles
draws the world as she sees it through a
concoction of found objects and wire
creating three-dimensional drawings. Her
sculptures explore narratives of the
everyday often comprising birds and other
creatures, varying in scale from small
intimate pieces to large scale public
commissions.
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Cathy Miles |
Anna Noel
graduated from the RCA in 1991.Now lives and works
in Wales which has had great influence on her work.
Some of her animals are inspired by folk art humour
found in Staffordshire figures others by Tang
Dynasty animals, the magic of animals in myths and
legends and children's literature where animals and
humans appear in strange and unlikely combinations.
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Anna Noel |
Melanie
Tomlinson's animal tableaux are
inspired by human life and her passion
fornature. Melanie trained in illustration
at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
The scenes she creates have roots within
other cultures and may appear deliberately
mysterious or strange. Running through her
work like threads, are themes from folklore.
These allow her to step into another world,
to explore the world of the unfamiliar and
transform its stories and symbols.
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Melanie Tomlinson |
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