Jenny Parkes - Recollections 

assemblage work by Jenny Parkes

A visitor to her studio once stated “Rust is usually to be avoided” but the way it affects mundane metal objects, in her eyes transforming them into something beautiful, has fascinated Jenny for many years. This is her creative process, it applies to finding, assembling and exhibiting. Re-presenting old, used, discarded and eroded objects gives them a second chance, a new life, a temporary halt on the path to destruction. It provokes a need to search for links and clues through the collection of objects that appear like signposts for the way ahead. “Old does not have to mean discarded” from 'Quartet' by R. Harwood.
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