In addition to ‘Since I fell for you’, ‘try not to breathe’ is also being exhibited as part of this year’s East Sussex Open in the window space at the Towner Gallery. Exhibition is now open and continues until the 28th April 2013. http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/
‘Since I fell for you’. Installed at Towner Gallery. East Sussex Open 2013 exhibition
‘Try not to breathe.’ Installed in Towner Gallery window space, Part of East Sussex Open 2013 exhibition
I am really very pleased that my work – ‘since i fell for you…’ (2010) has been selected for the East Sussex Open 2013 at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. The exhibition, in its fourth year, will take place from 9 March – 28 April 2013.
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk
Photographer credit: David Ramkalawon
Independent Curator Kate Stoddart has recently reviewed Browns’ ‘Offerings’ on a-n Interface http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/2540206
Veils, 2012. Machine lace net curtains (brise-bise) made from synthetic fibre.
Veils is a temporary intervention on the colonnade immediately outside the main entrance of Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery. The colonnade is home to a group of portrait busts – sculptures in bronze and marble of writers and poets associated with Nottingham, including Lord Byron, DH Lawrence and Henry Kirke White. For Lace Works Exhibtion, three of these portrait heads have been shrouded in fabric and the folds held in place by cord bound round each sculptural form.
Final Installation for Lace Works Exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery.
Materials used – Nottingham Leavers Lace trim, ribbon, vintage and second hand ‘St Michaels’ (Marks and Spencer’s) and ‘Golden Charm’ negligée’s, petticoats, high neck day dress, pins, nails.
’Lace Works – Contemporary Art & Nottingham Lace’ – Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery 10th November 2012 – extended until 10th February 2013. www.mynottingham.gov.uk/nottinghamcastle
‘Lace Works’ is part of ‘Lace: Here: Now’ – a season of lace exhibitions and events that celebrate the heritage of the Nottingham Lace industry and demonstrates that lace still inspires, fascinates and excites. www.laceherenow.co.uk
My work has been included in Dr Jessica Hemmings’s new book – ‘Warp & Weft. WovenTextiles in Fashion Art and Interiors’ published by Bloomsbury… Out now! The publication has been reviewed in Crafts Magazine No 239 Nov/Dec 2012.
….watching ‘Blood and Black Lace’- (Italian: Sei donne per l’assassino) a 1964 Italian Giallo film directed by Mario Bava; and after the film had finished, my boyfriend thought it would be funny to act out the killer by hiding on the landing with a black lace stocking over his head….
the space where those secrets stay….
A clothing gathering
All made in the UK/Great Britain, all use lace in varying quantities and selected in relation to research…
Images on studio wall of inspired lace items from Nottingham Castle Lace Collections and photo documentation of women lace factory workers…
