In Dialogue 3. Old Questions/New Answers

20 – 23 May | Opening Event Thursday 19 May, 6 - 8pm

Ann Sutton OBE (b.1935) Spatial Drawings
Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley (b.1953/1952) Wood

Ann Sutton One to Five, Both Ways (Serial Woven Studies) 1986 handwoven linen, warp and weft 18 x 16.5cm

Ann Sutton has held a lifelong fascination with grid structures, rooted in her original training as a weaver and constructivist-inspired studies with artists such as Harry Thubron and Kenneth Martin. Textile designer; sculptor; performance artist; lecturer; architectural consultant and above all innovator – she has woven life into forms through materials ranging from monofilament to acrylic paint. Works can be found in major public collections include Tate and V & A, London. Sutton comments on her recent work: 'The viewer is needed: the slightest movement, even of the eyes alone, results in changing imagery, and it is never ending.'

Jim Partridge/Liz Walmsley Blackened Oak Vessel & Seat (detail)

Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley have re-imagined our contemporary relationship to sitting, looking, and making through their 40-year exploration of wood as a material for furniture, vessels, and architectural structures. From their Shropshire studio, they work directly with locally sourced oak (and occasionally holly) using chainsaw, lathe, and blowtorch to realise highly refined objects for domestic and public settings. Seats, tables and vessels for interiors in blackened or limed oak together with site specific outdoor commissions for bridges, shelters and seating have marked sculptural presence whilst having the ‘potency of useful things.’ Works can be seen in Cambridge in site specific commissions for CB1 commissioned by Ridgeons; a memorial seat for Clare College Cambridge; a bench in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Please join us on Thursday 19th May between 6 - 8pm for the opening of In Dialogue 3. Old Questions/New Answers

We are also delighted to welcome you to a special 'In Conversation' event with distinguished art historian, Gill Hedley who will be discussing the work of artist weaver, Ann Sutton. This event will take place at the Gallery on Saturday 21st May at 11am. You can register for your free place here.

Exhibition opening times:

Friday: 12 - 7pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11am - 5pm
Monday: by appointment