First Thursday of the Month

About

Marian is our guest artist for June and is a contemporary textile artist who is also a keen photographer. Her work is heavily inspired by her macro photography of the natural environment. 

She often includes household and DIY products in her work that would normally be sent to landfill. Marian is keen to promote the message of   ‘re-use’ and ‘re-purpose’, and this is a key feature of her highly textural wall art and sculptural pieces.

Marian exploits the manipulation, construction and deconstruction of fibres, fabrics and mixed materials by using a range of heat treatments, ranging from the soldering iron and hot air gun to hair curlers, the naked flame and the domestic iron. It is this experimentation that leads ultimately to the creation of her beautiful and highly textural abstract pieces of wall art and 3D sculptures.

Recent themes have included cacti inspired sculptures, decaying bark vessels, rock erosion wall art, and her latest work, ‘Stems and Stalks’ was shortlisted for the Fine Art Textile Award 2022. All her pieces clearly demonstrate her recycling philosophy with the creative and original use of electrical tubing, plastics, wires, and garden mesh along with discarded buttons and zips.

The community of small businesses in the Corn Exchange are coming together to make the 1st Thursdays more enticing. OWT are offering a 10% discount on food and drink to all our visitors, and Bruschetta will be showing some of our work in the café area and putting on some music.

It would be great to share a drink with you and show you Marian's fabulous work; we know you will love them as much as we do.