I’m pleased to announce that the Giant Cauliflower Harvest has been jury selected for the Tŷ Pawb Open 2024.
Around 450 artists submitted work. After jury selection 100 artworks were chosen for the final exhibition.
The exhibition will be on show at the Tŷ Pawb, Market St, Wrexham, Wales LL13 8BB, from 16th November 2024 – 8th February 2025.
This year’s Judge is Alan Dunn, a Glasgow-born Artist based in Liverpool. Alan creates artworks using sound and digital images, collaborating with thousands of citizens to unlock the hidden narrative in communities. He has developed projects with ICA, BBC Radio, Tate Britain, National Science & Media Museum and Liverpool Art Prize.
Giant Cauliflower Harvest part of the Tŷ Pawb Open 2024
During the launch event (Friday 15th November from 6pm) the winners of the Judge’s Prize (£1000) and the Traders’ Prize (£500) will be announced.
A ‘People’s Prize (£500), selected by public votes, will be awarded at the conclusion of the exhibition.
A new exhibition at the House of Smalls called ‘Moral Fibre’ prompted me to create a new piece of work called ‘Peterloo’ for the Dollhouse gallery.
The exhibition takes place at The House of Smalls, 103 Henderson Row, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5BB from 1st – 25th August 2024. Part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
‘A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything’ ~ Joan Erikson
Artists in the Dollhouse ‘Moral Fibre’ exhibition
Peterloo
“If we don’t vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future” Pat Mitchell.
Our vote matters.
Peterloo
With each election, I think of those who came before us. Those who fought to give us the Right to Vote. Emelia Pankhurst and the fight for Women’s Suffrage; and the peaceful protestors at Peterloo in 1819.
On 16 August 1819, 60,000 people congregated in St Peter’s Field in Manchester – the largest ever political gathering of working-class people. Folk from towns across Lancashire marched to the field carrying banners with slogans supporting political reform and the right to vote; included were workers from Middleton near Rochdale, carrying a banner of locally woven blue silk, with the words ‘Liberty, Fraternity, Unity, Strength’ in hand-painted gold lettering.
Peterloo
Their peaceful protest turned bloody when Manchester magistrates gave orders to disperse the crowd. The Yeomanry pulled out their sabres and charged the crowd on horseback. An estimated 18 people died and more than 650 were injured in the chaos.
The tragic incident is known as the Peterloo Massacre. A moment when ordinary people stepped up to protest in a way that has made its mark in history and with a legacy that lives on to today.
Size 11.5 x 11.5cm. Hand embroidered cotton cloth, DMC embroidery thread.
Giant Cauliflower Harvest part of the 2024 Harley Open
Voting for the People’s Prize will take place throughout the exhibition, with the winner announced at the end of the show. The People’s Prize is £750 sponsored by the Welbeck Estates Company.
Update September 2024:
On a sunny September day, I popped over to Welbeck to check out the Harley Open.
Please vote for my work for visitors choice – Vote here!
Harley Gallery
A visit to the gallery
There is such a high quality of work and I feel honoured to have two artworks accepted.
Summer ’76 and the Giant Cauliflower Harvest in the exhibition
