A Inventive Hub within the Coronary heart of ShrewsburySwan Hill Studios is an artist-led area devoted to fostering creativity, collaboration, and neighborhood. Dwelling to The Circle Collective, a rising community of artists, makers, and creatives, the studio supplies an area for exhibitions, residencies, and workshops. The collective was based on the assumption that creativity thrives in supportive, shared areas—providing a spot the place artists can join, develop their work, and interact with the general public.
Forage – A Considerate Curation by Sam Pooley-Stride
As each a curator and exhibiting artist, Sam Pooley-Stride describes Forage as a deeply private challenge. After a interval of inventive hibernation, she sees the present as a re-emergence into the general public artwork scene.
“My work is an emotional response to my environment,” Sam explains. “Portray permits me to flee right into a meditative state, bringing order to the chaos in my thoughts. I’m drawn to uncooked supplies, working intuitively to create layers of depth and texture.”
Her minimalist but expressive work, created utilizing acrylic, sand, gesso, and oil pastels, discover the essence of winter—each its bodily landscapes and its inner, reflective qualities.
Kaori Okado Hood (@te.by_kao), a Japanese ceramicist primarily based in Shropshire, brings a choice of stoneware that merges Japanese aesthetics with the rugged fantastic thing about the English countryside. Her practical items are designed to encourage mindfulness—discovering stillness within the on a regular basis.
Camilla Jane Gittins (@camillajanegittins), whose inventive profession has spanned from window design for Jack Wills to conceptual work for Tommy Hilfiger, presents a group of summary work impressed by nature’s layered landscapes. Utilizing acrylics, pastels, oil bars, and spray paint, Camilla’s work captures the motion and emotion of the pure world.
Stephanie Eufemia (@stephanieeufemia_artist), a Shropshire-born artist with Italian heritage, presents meditative work that stability the grounding affect of English landscapes with the heat of Mediterranean mild. Her newest physique of labor options open skies and luminous horizons, designed to deliver a way of peace to the viewer.
Opening Evening & Exhibition Particulars
Forage opens with a Non-public View on Thursday, 27 February, from 5.30pm to eight.30pm, providing a possibility to satisfy the artists and expertise their work first-hand. The exhibition runs by way of the primary week of March, with open gallery days on Saturday, 1 March, and Sunday, 2 March, from 10am to 4pm.
As a part of the broader Swan Hill Studios neighborhood, which fosters collaboration and inventive help, this exhibition highlights the facility of inventive circles and impartial artists in Shrewsbury.
For extra particulars and to RSVP for the Non-public View, go to Swan Hill Studios’ Instagram @swanhillstudios or observe the hyperlink of their bio.
