Recent graduates, Charlotte Henry-Stumpe (Arts University Plymouth) and Lily Maddocks (Bath Spa University), present work they have developed during their six month residency at KARST.
Charlotte Henry-Stumpe draws together scrapstore textile artifacts to create costumes of emboldenment, identity markers and acts of resistance against the quiet violences inherited within local communities. Henry-Stumpe attempts to navigate a cultural backdrop in which the uncertainty of changing community identity has been met with obsessive national pride. The high-vis workwear featured in her work embodies shared experiences, whilst the repeated flag imagery represents something more sinister. By disrupting these homogenised, mass-produced fabrics, she hopes to make obsolete their attached norms and imagines how they could be re-made, re-worn and passed on as local history or myth.
Lily Maddocks uses her practice to engage with and respond to her environment, working directly with materials collected during time spent outdoors. Using found and foraged earth pigments, Lily forms a connection between location, method and material, working closely with the ground. Her work in Test Space displays a growing body of pigments she has collected over the past five months during her residency at KARST. These pigments represent multiple areas across the South West, from the north coast of Somerset to Dartmoor and the south coast of Devon.
Opening Event:
27 February, 5.30 – 7.30pm
Artists in conversation with KARST’s Head of Programme, Ben Borthwick:
28 February, 12 – 1pm
