Transient Lines
16 - 24 October
Open Tuesday - Sunday, 12 - 6
Free & open to all
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Katie Jamieson
Clee Claire Lee
Deborah Lee
Myfanwy Williams
This October sees four women artists exhibiting at Bloc Projects. The work in the show, entitled Transient Lines, both celebrates and decries boundaries, through multidimensional explorations and collaboration of time, space and materiality. Postponed from March 2020, this show continues to try and make sense of our ever-changing worlds.
In Aber, Deborah Lee looks at coastlines, estuaries and harbours as safe havens, but where the boundaries ebb and flow. The coastline is changing, the sea is rising, the map will be revised. ‘The question is not what you look at, but what you see.’ (David Thoreau). Myfanwy Williams also records the changing and political landscapes in Boundaries, revealing that, as the natural, beneficial boundaries of the world are shrinking, those of the harmful are expanding. Clee Claire Lee’s woven tangled web, Preys, tries to make sense of the invisible personal and political forces that violate our freedom to manage our own boundaries. And Katie Jamieson, in tracing the lines of impermanence, seeks both balance and disruption through exploration of space, memory and fragility.
Expect to see a collaboration of painting, sculpture and installation.
Focusing on the periphery of experience, Clee Claire Lee explores states of betweenness through ethereal sculpture, immersive wire installations, and body-work. She collaborates with dance artists, and with the artists collective, Material Voice, who work with cultural institutions to increase the visibility of women sculptors. Clee’s recent project, On Caul, has morphed through re-installations in Kelham Island Museum (Unpaid Labour, 2019), Bloc Projects (Phantom Limb, 2020), and as part of a dance project on Loxley Common (Unfallen Fruit, 2020). Her piece, Preys, for Transient Lines, is the starting point for her rescheduled live solo exhibition, Preys B, in 2021.
@cleeclairelee
Myfanwy Williams’ work is concerned with land and seascapes, and she addresses the human condition, even though her paintings are rarely figurative. She is exploring the interaction between the physical landscape and mankind as a journey. At present, Myfanwy is working on a series linked to Transient Lines, entitled Mountain Sea, which deals with issues that affect us all, such as climate change, migration and travel. She is currently showing work at the Harley Open Exhibition, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire and the Prosaic: Generous Exhibition at Globe Arts Studio in Slaithwaite.
@myfanwyw
Deborah Lee is an artist based in Sheffield, working primarily with mixed media to produce abstract work. Her influences are taken from a love for exploring the sensation of mark-making and creating compositions that relate to the energy and space within and around objects, landscapes and seascapes. Colour is regularly used as a code or language to express her emotional response. Deborah has previously exhibited at Kommune, Sheffield, Butcher Works, Sheffield and has curated the exhibition Eight Paint at Gage Gallery, Sheffield. She has also been represented by Hamilton Gallery , Ireland as well as across London and New York.
@DeborahLee18
Katie Jamieson’s work hovers enticingly on the edge of painting and of sculpture. It simultaneously belongs to both and neither, constantly moving in and out of disciplines, eluding definition. Her work often has a fragility and transient nature, whether she is creating large scale paintings or hundreds of small scale objects. They are a constant testament to the impermanence of life and the inevitability of change.
@kjamiesonart