Exhibitions & Events
Welcome to Artisan, Queens Park Arts Centre’s exciting programme of exhibitions and events. Led by Ellie Kirkup, this special project offers free-to-view exhibitions all year round featuring work from the most talented and inspirational artists working both locally and nationally.
Alongside our exhibition spaces we have a beautiful gallery shop stocked with handmade art and craft. You can find out about the latest artists stocking their work by clicking here, or see below for our upcoming exhibitions.
EXHIBITIONS
CURRENT / UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
ROUTES AND ROOTS
OUTER AYLESBURY RING: OUR ARTISTIC RESPONSE
JANET EDMONDS AND LIZ HOLLIDAY
EXHIBITION
22 MAR – 27 APR
Two textile artists, Janet Edmonds and Liz Holliday, have walked the 52 miles of this Long Distance Path. They shared, and recorded on camera, many observations along the way. Each section was different in route, length, weather and season. The details to be enjoyed were infinite, the connections endless, and yet they became ever more grounded in that particular landscape. In what were to be the Covid years and since, they have been creating many new images to share.
Janet has a passion for drawing and stitching detailed surfaces, from tree bark and branches, leaves and seed pods to the wider landscape.
Liz is a natural scientist with a love of landscape, maps, and the identity of every living detail. These became her inspiration for lines and colours in fabric and stitch.
www.janetedmonds.co.uk
www.lizinstitches.co.uk
Please note Easter Holiday opening hours below:
Tuesday 9 April 10am – 12.30pm
Saturday 13 April 10am – 5pm
ROUTES AND ROOTS EVENTS
PRIVATE VIEW – THU 21 MAR 7-9PM
Please let Janet and Liz know directly if you are able to join them.
MEET THE ARTISTS – WED 27 MAR & WED 24 APR 11AM-3PM
Janet and Liz invite you to share the unexpected joy of their incidental “art walk” beginning, six years ago, through to the creation of related stitched textiles and beyond setting up this exhibition. Come and view the diverse perspectives in their photo books and workbooks, and watch them practice their craft.
JANET EDMONDS WORKSHOP – MON 15 APR 10.30AM-4PM
ROUTES AND ROOTS: STITCHING ROUND AND ROUND
Janet has observed circles in many different contexts whilst walking the Outer Aylesbury Ring, from marks on the ground and in the trees, encircling footpaths, cyclical variations in the weather, the sound of country church bells rung in rounds and the memory of the continuum of generations that have come and gone across history. These elements will be the inspiration for exploring surface through stitching, with techniques including couching, whipping, knotting and weaving.
Find out more and book here
LIZ HOLLIDAY TALK – SAT 20 APR 11AM-11.30AM
ROUTES AND ROOTS: HUMAN FOOTPRINTS REVEALED IN STITCHED MAPS
Liz has a lifelong love of maps. She uses both Ordnance Survey Explorer and Geological Survey sources to fire her understanding of the landscape she walks. Her exhibition maps details all thirty parishes on the Outer Aylesbury Ring, together with evidence of man’s imprint over many centuries, from lost villages and castles to tumuli and church towers. Liz is planning for the individual maps in her installation to be purchased by donation, as a community fund-raiser.
EVENTS
CURRENT / UPCOMING EVENTS
ARTISAN CRAFT FAIR 2024
SAVE THE DATE
SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2024
The annual Artisan Craft Fair is back on Saturday 16 November 2024! Our craft fair shines a spotlight on the finest handmade art and craft from the very best local artists and makers including ceramics, jewellery, woodwork, textiles, fine art, mixed media and more.
Email fohteam@queensparkarts.com if you would like to be part of our craft fair this November.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Click here to listen to an interview with Brenda.
Kelly’s work is currently on sale in our Artisan gallery shop.
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