29 August 2007
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Cas Holmes
29 September - 25 November 2007 ~ Rochester Art Gallery and Craft Case and Rochester Cathedral
Amber Walls
Cas Holmes' narrative works combine recycled materials with digital photographic techniques and methods adapted from Japanese textiles, textile art and papermaking. Her work is informed by personal experience, places visited, stories of her Romany grandmother and old forgotten textiles.
Exotic images, colours and landscape alien to the English experience surrounded Cas during her recent research trip to India, which was supported by Arts Council England. The new works in this exhibition examine cultural links between the Northern Indian art and decoration and her Romany heritage within a broader cultural context.
She has combined the found materials gathered in India with donated waste silks and fabric from the UK, and reassembled them into large wall hangings and more intimate textile canvases. Richly coloured stitched images reflecting patterns and forms from textiles, buildings, posters and street life form part of the main exhibition, and an installation in the Rochester Cathedral Crypt provides a small, enclosed space for contemplation and reflection.
Rochester Art Gallery and Craft Case
Medway Visitor Information Centre, 1st Floor
95 High Street, Rochester, Kent.
Phone: 01634 843666
Open Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 10.30am - 5pm
Admission free