Matthew Harris
16th- 18th April
£465
Back to Front and Back again
A drawing and making workshop.
“Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.” : Sister Corita Kent
The aim of this workshop is to explore playful ways in which images and visual information can be gathered, generated and developed through both drawing and textiles. By working with individual imagery gathered from sketch books, photographs etc, we will be aiming to exploit the full potential of sometimes the most simple and mundane scraps of image, mark and shape with a view to then interpreting these through the medium of textile.
Through a series of guided activities and one to one tuition, the emphasis throughout the workshop is on experimentation the development of a personal visual language.
Lunches and refreshments included. Days run from 10am to 4pm (ish)
About Matthew
Matthew Harris makes work in both paper and cloth that employs painting, cutting and hand stitching. Working primarily from things seen, the imagery is pieced, patched, assembled, and re-assembled using improvisatory processes, designed to facilitate the interpretation and exploration of imagery around a given theme.
Matthew Harris has exhibited widely throughout the U.K, Europe, the United States and Japan. He has work in the Crafts Council Collection, The Whitworth Museum and Art Gallery and the International Quilt Museum, Nebraska, U.S.A, as well as numerous private collections. In 2010 he was short listed for the first Arts Foundation Award for Textile Art and in 2009 completed ‘Scorched’ a ten metre long Graphic Score for the newly refurbished Bristol Beacon Concert Hall, Bristol. In 2014 he collaborated with the British composer Howard Skempton and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group on ‘Field Notes’, an Arts Council funded, U.K concert tour.
Matthew Harris lives and works in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
