Altered Images: Jonathan Price and Janet Sainsbury
Textile artist Jonathan Price and painter Janet Sainsbury use the exhibition to reflect on crossovers and links between their individual practices.
Showing together for the first time, textile artist Jonathan Price and painter Janet Sainsbury use the exhibition to reflect on crossovers and links between the individual practices of two artists who share a household; what might be mutualistic and what might be seen as parasitic.
Jonathan’s recycled textile hangings incorporate found materials, new fabrics and most significantly for this exhibition, Janet’s discarded paint rags. The oil paint rags bring deeply saturated and suffused colours, altering the sense of depth and surface, and bringing an embodied sense of haptic intervention and history to the fore.
Painting on hessian represents a new strand in Janet’s practice. Using this rough textured material brings challenges; some globs of paint stay on the surface and some are absorbed into the open weave of the fabric. The effect finds echoes in Jonathan’s hangings where light is both absorbed and reflected, and materials float or sink into the surfaces of the work.
