Helen Carnac, Lin Cheung, David Clarke and David Gates. Four established makers who are known for their inquisitive and challenging approaches to their disciplines have come together to make work for this unique four-way collaboration. 

This project began as with so many other things in a conversation, we found that we wanted to explore the possibilities of working together having realised that beyond the visual and material differences in our more visible outputs there was a space where our practices and our thoughts overlapped. In collaborating and working together we have used words and objects. Passing and exchanging half formed ideas, starting points and statements, making and waiting for responses. This dialogue allowed for conversation to be part of the workshop toolkit but it also quickly and purposefully located the centrality of making as a way of thinking through things. We want to use a gallery space to further explore these ideas, to engage the viewer – if a gallery is a space for thinking about objects is the finished object enough of a thing to show? The fluidity of the process will be carried over into the gallery where exchange, joint-authorship and trust will generate further iterations in an overlapping space of thinking, making and showing.

Discussions will be facilitated in the gallery by Helen Carnac, Lin Cheung, David Clarke and David Gates on: 
Thurs 18 Feb 1-2pm
Sat 20 Feb 2pm
Wed 3 March 4pm
Sat 6 March 3pm
Wed 10 March 4pm
Wed 17 March 6.30pm

You are invited to the Private View on Thursday 18th February from 6–8pm.

Focus Artists (downstairs)
Karen Bartlett - jewellery
Ashley Howard - ceramics
Mo Jupp - ceramics