Recollect - Georgina Griffiths . Emily Bellhouse . Tansy Hargan

About

Recollect brings together a diverse collection of works on glass, textiles and paper by three different artists. Although their approaches are highly distinctive, common themes are clear to see. The accumulation and reconfiguration of found materials - from discarded textiles and window glass to obsolete technology – is prevalent in many pieces. The reuse of unwanted materials reflects a strong connection with the past and a curiosity about how memories may be perceived within objects and distorted or reinvented over time. Landscapes – whether real or imagined – are a recurrent subject; the processes of layering and destruction that form them are often reflected and echoed by the artists in the innovative techniques they use to create their work.

Georgina Griffiths is a glass artist and painter based at the Barbican Arts Group Trust. Having worked for a decade as an actor, Georgina completed postgraduate studies at UAL Central Saint Martins. Since then, she has exhibited her paintings and glasswork widely, most notably in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Houses of Parliament. Georgina’s architectural work includes a large-scale installation of site-specific glass panels in New Bond Street, London - praised as "gem-like" by the City of Westminster Public Art Advisory Panel. Objects in her immediate environment that might go unnoticed or even be considered repellent form a starting point for much of Georgina’s work. Her recent paintings recollect the bizarre shifting landscapes that seemed to emerge from damaged walls and hoardings passed on daily lockdown walks. A new glass installation Hung Up evokes the imagined histories and conflicting emotions prompted by the sight of discarded facemasks, still ubiquitous in the city’s parks and pavements. www.georginagriffiths.com www.instagram.com/georginagriffithsart

Emily Bellhouse creates large-scale sculptural installations and commissioned artworks in glass. Also a graduate of UAL Central Saint Martins, Emily has exhibited with prestigious organisations such as the British Glass Biennale, Henley Festival of Arts and British Library. Emily has always been fascinated by old photographs, letters and objects and the lost narratives held within them. This curiosity is reflected in her current body of work, where she curates memories and recreates them as unique glass keepsakes. Her Glass Box Cameras are created by replacing the mechanics of original cameras with handcrafted cast glass; precious metals (such as silver) are encased within and layered images are melted onto the surface. These pieces capture moments (as once the camera did) and give the onlooker a window into the lives of the people within. For enquiries regarding commissioning a personalised Glass Box Camera, please contact: info@emilybellhouse.com

Tansy Hargan is a Sheffield-based artist whose work is the result of a long-term critical observation of landscapes and ecological processes. Despite her professional background being in architecture and landscape architecture, sketching and textiles have been her principle media for over twenty years. Her mixed media palette is an allusion to the materials and mechanisms of landscape: it is layered and adapted, diverse and inventive. She deconstructs old garments to harvest high-quality fabrics, which she combines with utility textiles and commercial by-products, such as tailors’ waste. Her methods mimic geophysical activity, as she alters reclaimed textiles by staining, bleaching, scraping, scoring, and slashing. Her work develops in stages, with layers added and taken away repeatedly, and traces of past iterations visible through and between subsequent veils and fibres. www.tansyhargan.com www.instagram.com/palimpsestparade