
torn apart 7-19 October 2020
This exhibition by textile artist Beverly Ayling-Smith is a collection of new work exploring the idea of emotional barriers through the metaphor of cloth: tearing, staining, mending and stitch
To put this in context Beverly has kindly shared below content from her PhD exhibition in 2016 'The Language of Grief: cloth as a metaphor for loss'.
The body of studio artwork presented in the exhibition ‘The Language of Grief: cloth as a metaphor for loss’ was created during my PhD research project. The research addressed the question of why cloth is such an important material, treated in different ways, using various processes and manipulations to create artwork that connects with the unresolved mourning of the viewer. The body of studio artwork was accompanied by a written thesis, which not only documented my studio practice, but showed how the studio artwork had been informed by the written research and vice versa.
beverly ayling-smith, publications