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Breathing Space is a new work commissioned by York Museums
Trust with the support of the Arts Council, for its contemporary
art venue, York St Mary's.
Textile artist Caroline Broadhead's exciting new installation will
open to the public on 21st May in St MaryÂ’s, a former medieval
church in the centre of York which opened as the cityÂ’s newest
contemporary art space last year.
Caroline Broadhead is a Reader and jeweller at Middlesex University,
and has shown her work widely for the past 30 years. Her work is
also displayed in public collections in the UK, Europe, Japan and
Australia.
The focus at St Mary's this year is textiles, and Breathing
Space is Caroline Broadhead's response to the building is this
installation which alters the dimensions of the interior by creating
a suspended textile “ceiling”.
More images of the exhibition
360 photos of the exhibition
Caroline explains:  Breathing Space is a work made in response to York St MaryÂ’s
and its quiet and imposing atmosphere and its sense of the past.
"The aim was to make a contemporary work that would both contrast
the old and the new, but also integrate with the building, a combination
of ecclesiastical and secular.
"The lofty space above your head is defined by a translucent
screen. This ‘ceiling’ separates upper and lower levels
of the building, defining these different spaces. Viewed from the
ground floor, it gives a new stratum, close to the head, reducing
the space that one is accustomed to.
"The materials I have chosen are a combination of airiness
and heaviness; the wadding is associated with warmth, and the lead
with weight.
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Where:
York St Mary's next to the Coppergate Shopping Centre, York
01904 687687 |
| When:
from Saturday 21st May - Sunday 9th October 2005, every day
from 11am - 5pm |
| Admission:
free |
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