RELIC
Deborah Burdett | Annelies Jahn
21 June – 8 July 2018
Opening Wednesday 20 June, 6 - 8 pm
RELIC= ˈrɛlɪk/ = artifact, heirloom, curio, fossil, remains, bones
Deborah Burdett and Annelies Jahn work with objects and materials that come from the environment that surrounds them. Deborah from the rural, regional and found,and Annelies from the urban. Both Deborah and Annelies’ practice reflect their every day life and experience – being of and from the world.
RELIC is a body of work constructed from what’s “held within” or around. Not purchased, shiny or new, but decrepit and fixed. Found objects saved from destruction and given new lives, new uses. Found remnants of earlier lives, previous times, the personal reflected upon – relicand derelict.
Deborah’s work celebrates the blemished, as in the concept of Japanese wabi-sabi. Her works are stitched, sewn and mended; repaired, reassembled and repurposed. In RELIC Deborah will combine new and old reimagined into a wall and floor-cloth, ceramics, cottons, linen, rope, string, hair, fragments, pelt, fur, bones and wire. Exposing patina, warps and wefts, surfaces, texture and scapes.
These blemished and textured rural-scapes, contrast with Annelies’ work. The materiality of the urban environment chosen by Annelies being largely industrial such as manufactured styrofoam, cardboard, metal and plastic. With a minimalist sensibility, Annelies’ processes of measuring, collecting and drawing take form as installation, intervention and assemblage. In RELIC found discarded objects and broken fragments are exposed, renewed and re-contextualised.
RELIC brings together the rural and urban discarded, to create a new place and dialogue of materiality and relationship.
Deborah Burdett and Annelies Jahn work with objects and materials that come from the environment that surrounds them. Deborah from the rural, regional and found,and Annelies from the urban. Both Deborah and Annelies’ practice reflect their every day life and experience – being of and from the world.
RELIC is a body of work constructed from what’s “held within” or around. Not purchased, shiny or new, but decrepit and fixed. Found objects saved from destruction and given new lives, new uses. Found remnants of earlier lives, previous times, the personal reflected upon – relicand derelict.
Deborah’s work celebrates the blemished, as in the concept of Japanese wabi-sabi. Her works are stitched, sewn and mended; repaired, reassembled and repurposed. In RELIC Deborah will combine new and old reimagined into a wall and floor-cloth, ceramics, cottons, linen, rope, string, hair, fragments, pelt, fur, bones and wire. Exposing patina, warps and wefts, surfaces, texture and scapes.
These blemished and textured rural-scapes, contrast with Annelies’ work. The materiality of the urban environment chosen by Annelies being largely industrial such as manufactured styrofoam, cardboard, metal and plastic. With a minimalist sensibility, Annelies’ processes of measuring, collecting and drawing take form as installation, intervention and assemblage. In RELIC found discarded objects and broken fragments are exposed, renewed and re-contextualised.
RELIC brings together the rural and urban discarded, to create a new place and dialogue of materiality and relationship.
Images by Document Photography