Exhibition
Shell-Lit Siambr
11 Oct 2017 – 25 Nov 2017
Sidney Cooper Gallery
Canterbury, United Kingdom
Event
The Mouth Is A Fossil, Bog Buried And Glowing Blue
28 Oct 2017
Event times
6-8pm
Listening Hour: 6.30-7.30pm
Cost of entry
Entry is free but booking is recommended:
https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture/event-details.aspx?instance=174005
Address
- St.Peter's Street
- Canterbury
- CT1 2BQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Canterbury West or Canterbury East
Event map
As part of the associated events programme for Shell-Lit Siambr, the first UK solo exhibition by Bethan Lloyd Worthington, writers Amy Pettifer and Jennifer Boyd (SHELL LIKE) present an hour long programme of audio works by UK and International artists and writers
About
Weaving threads from the exhibition and imagery from Leonora Carrington’s short story, ‘The Happy Corpse’, the programme explores how a body speaks when it is no longer a body; when it is engulfed by desire, lost to death, solitude or sleep, transformed by the earth, split apart by language or left as limpid vocal residue on an object. Carrington writes, ‘being full of holes and dents, the corpse could speak out of any part of its body.’ The Mouth Is A Fossil, Bog Buried And Glowing Blue considers the resonances of this voice.
Supported by Sidney Cooper Gallery and Arts Council England.
SHELL LIKE is a collaboration between Amy Pettifer and Jennifer Boyd, which takes the form of a series of listening events featuring both existing and newly commissioned audio work by UK and international artists and writers. These events comprise one-hour-long programmes, curated in response to a theme and to be experienced in the atmospheric surrounds of an exhibition or conceived environment. SHELL LIKE creates a dedicated space for sound work and focuses on the importance of listening - particularly as a group - as a vital social and political act.
www.shell-like.com
Bethan Lloyd Worthington
Shell-Lit Siambr
Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury UK.
11th October - 26th November 2017
http://bethanlloydworthington.com/
Through installations of ceramics, drawings and textiles, artist Bethan Lloyd Worthington explores personal and prehistoric connections between bodies, rooms, and landscape. The exhibition looks at the particular pull of place in the context of Canterbury and offers objects as portals into landscape, as symbols of pilgrimage, and as holders of memory. Bethan Lloyd Worthington was Artist in Residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2016 – 17. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2010, she has exhibited extensively across the UK. Recently nominated for the John Ruskin Prize, this is her first solo show. Free tours of the show will run every Thursday at 11:00.
