Exhibitions

Our exhibitions programme will be halted on 6th August 2010.  We are actively looking for ways to continue to show artists' work at Persistence Works in a more financially sustainable way.  if you have any suggestions please email kate@artspace.org.uk

Kate Dore, Director Yorkshire Artspace

 

Forthcoming Exhibition : Come Up to My Place and Live It Up

Yorkshire Artspace artist Emilie Taylor holds her first major solo ceramics exhibition which will run from 28th June to 5th August at Persistence Works.

This new work celebrate different aspects of the form an function of the places we live, particularly post war housing estates and their relationship with the British.

Taylor is interested in a sentimental reminiscence of the cultural style clash of different chintz patterns, pertinent to a particular period in history and threatened to be permanently lost. Childhood memories bring back the decorative style trends of 60's, 70's and 80's - pre-Ikea crockery, textiles and wall paper:

"When sitting in my grandma's kitchen, it was like being on acid. There must have been six or seven patterns in her choice of curtains, wall paper, tiles, cushions, crockery - all wildly clashing. She loved that council house, she had lived there from the time it was built and her stories reflected the utopian ideology of the architects and town planners of that time."

Each of Emilie Taylor's pots is hand coiled, slip decorated and then, at the final firing, embellished with the line drawings that make her work unique. Decorative patterns and line drawings of pets, cars, caravans, pubs, churches and shoes all give her work an air of nostalgia as well as a truly contemporary feel. Alongside her pots, Taylor will also show her new range of plates depicting the 1950's architecture of Sheffield's infamous Gleadless Valley estate, influenced by Californian Modernism and one of the largest council housing estates in the UK.