Exhibitions
Debbie Prosser & Delpha Hudson | Telling Tales
Join us for the opening evening on Friday 31st January 17:30 onwards, all welcome!
Narratives are microcosms of collective renewal. We are at once in the middle of the tale with yet unwritten future endings. Stories and tales are compasses, we navigate by them and from them we build an understanding of our lives and the world around us.
In Telling Tales, Deborah Prosser and Delpha Hudson use figurative medieval and classical imagery borrowed from many sources to create a historical-contemporary visual lens to explore women’s lives. They create visual stories in an endlessly inventive way that honours, acknowledges and connects us to the invisible work of women.
Both artists mediate between different worlds and multiple time frames. Rich with ancient and innovative imagery, flora, fauna and pattern, the surfaces of ceramics and paintings examine, explore, and reframe the present.
Whilst women have historically not always been able to tell their stories to wider audiences, visual story telling has the potential to twist the fabric of our reality and disclose the fruitful premise that women are a rich source of tales that evoke empathy and understanding for ourselves and others.
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Deborah Prosser is a ceramist based near Newlyn in Cornwall who has been making work since 70s using a range of processes. She has shown her work all around the UK, Europe, the Americas and Africa. Current work is raw fired earthenware with oxides and under-glaze colours to create intricate stories on beautifully formed one-off thrown pots.
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Delpha Hudson is an artist based in Penzance, Cornwall. She has been making art about women since the late 90s often working in diverse media including performance, film and installation. She has shown work all round the UK and Europe with commissions from Tate St Ives and Newlyn Art Gallery. Current colourful figurative and patterned ‘tapestry’ paintings use a palimpsest of symbolism to explore women’s stories of mothering and caring.
In Telling Tales, Deborah Prosser and Delpha Hudson use figurative medieval and classical imagery borrowed from many sources to create a historical-contemporary visual lens to explore women’s lives. They create visual stories in an endlessly inventive way that honours, acknowledges and connects us to the invisible work of women.
Both artists mediate between different worlds and multiple time frames. Rich with ancient and innovative imagery, flora, fauna and pattern, the surfaces of ceramics and paintings examine, explore, and reframe the present.
Whilst women have historically not always been able to tell their stories to wider audiences, visual story telling has the potential to twist the fabric of our reality and disclose the fruitful premise that women are a rich source of tales that evoke empathy and understanding for ourselves and others.
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Deborah Prosser is a ceramist based near Newlyn in Cornwall who has been making work since 70s using a range of processes. She has shown her work all around the UK, Europe, the Americas and Africa. Current work is raw fired earthenware with oxides and under-glaze colours to create intricate stories on beautifully formed one-off thrown pots.
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Delpha Hudson is an artist based in Penzance, Cornwall. She has been making art about women since the late 90s often working in diverse media including performance, film and installation. She has shown work all round the UK and Europe with commissions from Tate St Ives and Newlyn Art Gallery. Current colourful figurative and patterned ‘tapestry’ paintings use a palimpsest of symbolism to explore women’s stories of mothering and caring.
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