Rachel North is an Ipswich based artist and educator, working across textiles and ceramics.
Growing up and living in predominantly rural and regional areas, her connection to landscape is an inherent component of her artwork. This exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of connections between the landscape and memory and how the colours and textures of a place can hold, heal, or hinder memory.
This exhibition consists of a large-scale installation of naturally dyed wool, silk thread and beeswax alongside ceramic vessels. The work communicates lived experiences of a child within a landscape marred by trauma. In both bodies of work varied surfaces emphasise the contrasting temporality of certain memories, some inseparable from the landscape in which they were formed.
Image: an anthology of memory / lingering / in the forgetting. 2024 (DETAIL). Natural and naturally dyed wool and silk with Gotland Fleece, wild tussah silk and red eri silk thread.
