"You might like this..."

About

“You might like this…” is the welcoming name of Lorraine Clewlow’s fine art exhibition showing at Centrespace Gallery from 10–14 December with the evening opening event from 6pm on Friday 9th.  New to Bristol, one of Lorraine’s latest works, “Mindblown”, references the world’s current political climate in a style influenced by the city’s graffiti culture. Her solo exhibition showcases a diverse mixture of sculpture, installation, plaster work, digital collage, photography, painting, ceramics, print, sound, drawing and projection, bringing together several decades of work.

Lorraine’s work is inspired by themes such as memories, identity, barriers, reflection, philosophy, symbolism, loss, political and environmental issues.

She loves textures and patina, often of a decaying nature, such as rust, peeling paint and rotting wood and is also drawn to shadows, feeling that the history of an object is written in the patina and that shadows can infer an object that is, itself, unseen. These things form a subtle memory.

She often uses industrial materials for her work, mixing them with other media, adding delicate materials as a counterpoint. Sometimes she chooses materials that are symbolic or have associated meaning. For example, a broken feather could be lost freedom, a dried flower the memory of something beautiful. Barbed wire speaks of barriers or obstacles and bandage may imply healing.

Tending towards the abstract, Lorraine’s work aims to be both meaningful and aesthetically pleasing. The artworks do have context, but she also wishes the viewer to form their own interpretation believing that “art should be an experience open to all and there should never be a right or a wrong”. She wants her work to be approachable.

In one of her pieces, cascades of tea bags hang like long chandeliers; her concept being that as the tea becomes part of the drinker, the spent tea bag becomes symbolic of that moment, the essence of the tea transformed into a memory of the experience. The dried tea bags represent fragments of life, capturing those points in time. They are all from cups she drank herself over a cascade of years.

Bristol Origami Artist Alex Ray will be doing a free drop-in workshop/demonstration at the exhibition on Saturday 10th December from 10 – 2pm (all welcome) 

The exhibitions opening times are

Friday 9th December – opening event  6pm – 10pm

10th – 14th December  10am – 6pm

So come along because “You might like this…”