TY - ADVS

T1 - Soft Hands on Mossy Rocks

T2 - Exhibition of collaboratively produced sculpture and research with artist Kerry Tenbey at Abingdon Studios, Blackpool.

A2 - Barrett, Ellie

A2 - Tenbey, Kerry

PY - 2021/4/15

Y1 - 2021/4/15

N2 - SOFT HANDS ON MOSSY ROCKS is an exhibition of research, ideas and artworks by Ellie Barrett and Kerry Tenbey.All of the things around us pulsate. Material stores energies, ripe for mining. Stuff we come intodaily contact with absorbs information about the places and people it interacts with. Objectsrumble with knowledge.Hacking into this information could tell us more about our bodies, our identities, and ourinteractions.Both artists explore overlaps between material, place, identity, process and information. Ellieuses accessible materials – salt dough, tin foil and soap – to represent fragmented body-parts,rock formations and industrial structures, suggesting an overlap between material and socialexchange. Kerry compares material information to data-mining with references to invasiveplants and familiar material forms, inviting us to perceive stored energies contained within. Bothartists navigate the blurred boundaries between the natural, the man-made and the handmade.Objects in this space are alive.SOFT HANDS ON MOSSY ROCKS not only presents sculptural and 2D works which explorethese ideas, but brings research into the gallery space. The exhibition is an immersive diagram,mapping the various activities which both artists have collaboratively engaged in during thedevelopment of this project and placing them in connection to the work. This includes exploringspecific locations, gathering material to make work and creating new connections betweenphysical sources of meaning.

AB - SOFT HANDS ON MOSSY ROCKS is an exhibition of research, ideas and artworks by Ellie Barrett and Kerry Tenbey.All of the things around us pulsate. Material stores energies, ripe for mining. Stuff we come intodaily contact with absorbs information about the places and people it interacts with. Objectsrumble with knowledge.Hacking into this information could tell us more about our bodies, our identities, and ourinteractions.Both artists explore overlaps between material, place, identity, process and information. Ellieuses accessible materials – salt dough, tin foil and soap – to represent fragmented body-parts,rock formations and industrial structures, suggesting an overlap between material and socialexchange. Kerry compares material information to data-mining with references to invasiveplants and familiar material forms, inviting us to perceive stored energies contained within. Bothartists navigate the blurred boundaries between the natural, the man-made and the handmade.Objects in this space are alive.SOFT HANDS ON MOSSY ROCKS not only presents sculptural and 2D works which explorethese ideas, but brings research into the gallery space. The exhibition is an immersive diagram,mapping the various activities which both artists have collaboratively engaged in during thedevelopment of this project and placing them in connection to the work. This includes exploringspecific locations, gathering material to make work and creating new connections betweenphysical sources of meaning.

KW - sculpture

KW - collaboration

KW - practice-based research

KW - materiality

KW - site-based research

M3 - Exhibition

PB - Abingdon Studios

ER -