LIGHT & SHADE
20th & 21st Oct | 3rd & 4th Nov | 24th & 25th Nov | 10 - 4pm
MARGIE HARRIS AND KATE MCGUIRE
MARGIE HARRIS
My home, in particular my kitchen, is an ever changing environment that occasionally I may think to cook in! I use it like a studio, collecting and curating my unusual finds, into which I intersperse my own artwork. Every pot, pan, tool or utensil provides constant inspiration for my work. Everything I produce is hall-marked with my eccentric personality as I inject a ‘life’ into my subject matter, be it a dancing fork or animated corkscrews. I have worked with different materials including metal, wood, fabric and paper. Techniques have included engraving with laser and Dremel, printing, embossing, drawing and stitch and I have a non-conformist, experimental approach to my work.
Recently I have changed direction again by designing and making my own lampshades.
KATE MCGUIRE
A self proclaimed sidewalk scavenger, my mixed media works are often the product of deconstructing and reconstructing found materials. I am intrigued by the interplay between fluid media such as gouache and watercolour and their more concrete counterparts including photographs, text and recycled paper. Fascinated by the human form and the internal workings of the mind, I seek to build intimate narratives for these once silenced characters. Within the dance between the beautiful and grotesque, a mood of eerie enchantment emerges hinged on the aesthetic consideration of line, shape and colour. As a practising art psychotherapist, I maintain that artistic creations are an extension of self-portraiture. This collection therefore embodies the ghosts of my past and the shadowy figures of the present that whisper to be heard.