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Press Release | Poetry Inspired Exhibition at Whitewater Gallery | Nov 202

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Suki Wapshott | Featured Artist

1st to 29th November

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Suki Wapshott | Still Pools

This November, as part of their 2020 ‘Featured Artist' series, Whitewater Gallery presents a special exhibition of work by painter Suki Wapshott, which responds to the artist's experience of this turbulent year.

Suki studied English at Oxford University before becoming one of North Cornwall's most recognized painters. Language and landscape have been equally influential in her work, but this new collection is almost entirely inspired by the poems that have resonated with her during lockdown and the pandemic. Poems of confinement, loss of freedom, love, isolation and joy such as ‘Caged Bird' by Maya Angelou, ‘To Bless the Space Between Us' by John O'Donohue and 'Hope is the Thing with Feathers' by Emily Dickinson, have each inspired a corresponding painting, along with extraordinary new poems by ordinary people that have gone viral during 2020, including ‘And the People Stayed Home' by Kitty O'Meara, and ‘The Rainbow Children' by Gemma Peacock.

Laurence Binyon's commemorative poem ‘Lest We Forget', which was written by Binyon in 1914 on the cliffs at Polzeath where Suki lives and works, has also inspired a painting which will be included to mark Remembrance Day.

 

For further information seewww.whitewatergallery.co.uk|art@whitewatergallery.co.uk

Whitewater Gallery, The Parade, Polzeath, PL27 6SR.

 

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Editors Notes


Whitewater Gallery

Situated in the stunning coastal village of Polzeath. Whitewater Gallery specialises in painting, print, sculpture, photography, ceramics and craft by Cornwall's leading contemporary artists.

Whitewater Gallery, The Parade, Polzeath, Cornwall PL27 6SR.

Tel: 01208 869301 |art@whitewatergallery.co.uk|www.whitewatergallery.co.uk

 

 


 

For further press information or additional images contact Mercedes Smith at Fine Art Communications director@fineartcommunications.co.uk / Tel 07825 270235 / www.fineartcommunications.co.uk