Event overview
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An exhibition of current works by the Christine Risley Award winner for 2016.
Goldsmiths Textile Collection will be hosting an exhibition of current works from the 2016 winner of the Christine Risley Award and BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate, Louise Madsen.
In the words of guest judge, Jennifer Harris (Deputy Director, the Whitworth, Manchester), 'her sculptural pieces demonstrate a profound material sensibility that aligns them with the kind of work that is being produced as part of the “material turn” that so much international art has taken in recent years’.
On display at the Constance Howard Gallery will be a collection of experimental pieces that demonstrate Madsen's investigative approach to how we encounter objects. Working with materials that shift, melt, cut, harden, spread and absorb, Madsen explores surfaces of internal and external change. Her seductive combinations of often disparate materials subvert their own haptic qualities in a way that is at once alluring, destabalising and uncanny.
‘It is most often the materials’ qualities of being too familiar giving way to the them becoming increasingly odd or even alien as I focus on them, that attracts, puzzles and provides me with a nervous energy’ (Louise Madsen).
With an approach to making and materiality that is both embedded in the tactile whilst resisting any tendency to be ‘pinned down’, Madsen is developing a rich language which resonates with a long history of material expression and what Jennifer Harris refers to as ‘the productive indeterminacy of contemporary art textiles’.
The Christine Risley Award is an annual cash prize awarded by the Goldsmiths Textile Collection & the Constance Howard Gallery to a graduating Goldsmiths BA student for outstanding work relating to textiles, in memory of Christine Risley.
Running from 28th September 2016 to 4th November 2016
Private view on Friday 30th September 5-8pm
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 28 Sep 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 29 Sep 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 30 Sep 2016 |
11:00am - 5:00pm Private View |
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| 5 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 6 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 7 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 12 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 13 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 14 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 19 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 20 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 21 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 28 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 29 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 30 Oct 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 2 Nov 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 3 Nov 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 4 Nov 2016 | 11:00am - 5:00pm |
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