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Based on literary research and the Michael Sadler Kashmir Shawl Collection at ULITA (University of Leeds International Textile Archive), the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery will exhibit new paintings and works on paper commissioned from artist Pip Dickens from 18 January to 14 April 2012. Dickens extrapolates the Kashmiri ‘boteh’ motif from these exotic fabrics resulting in anthropomorphic entities, heavy with shadow, placed within dramatic environments. These motifs traverse the canvas - sometimes together, sometimes alone. The environments and terrains she has constructed fuse textile qualities (colour, surface texture, repetition and shape) with the theatrical and fantastic. She has visited methodologies and imagery of Hieronymus Bosch, Disney animation and the claustrophobic ‘arena’ interiors of Francis Bacon to present her boteh shapes as individuals, or groups, in socio-political contexts that, although brightly coloured suggest an underlying threat or sense of isolation. Catalogue available: ‘Pip Dickens – New Works’ with text by curator, Layla Bloom, ISBN -13-978-1-874331-47-6 To purchase a copy email gallery@leeds.ac.uk or telephone 0113 343 2778. Link to Reviews of this exhibition. Layla Bloom, curator of the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery has a web blog providing updates of this commission and other events/exhibitions at the Gallery. For more information or to receive private view details - please join the mailing list. other associated events: The University of Leeds International Textiles
Archive (ULITA) joins in the Sadler centenary celebrations
with its forthcoming exhibition of
the Kashmir
Shawl Collection, showcasing its associations
with Sir Michael Sadler.The exhibition will explore the origins,
fashion, construction and designs of
the
Kashmir shawl, as well as the history
of
this textile collection at Leeds. ULITA
cares
for over thirty full shawls and hundreds
of fragments of Kashmir and Paisley
shawls,
many of which were donated soon after
the First
World War by the then Vice-Chancellor,
Sir
Michael Sadler, on his return from
carrying
out educational research in India. |
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