Jane Francis Reilly’s Jewellery explores domesticity explored in the abstract form. Using a combination of silver and copper, cold enameling and mark making, she traces the memories of the familiar. A fork, is not merely a utensil, it is the conversations had with loved ones, meals made with love, and connection.
Our latest exhibition brings together a group of artists whose work exemplifies the Gallery Minima ethos:
Jane Richens is a multidisciplinary visual artist and biodiversity farmer. The work exhibited explores her fascination with both wearable art and bacteria. These works are part of her Punch Needle wearables series and uses stitching with found embroidery floss, threads, ink on linen.
Jane Francis Reilly’s jewellery practice addresses the ideas around daily life and mark making. Her works are encoded in the stories of her life experience and the ethereal world of memories and the home. Working in metal, Jane follows her intuition in an ongoing conversation with the home, the landscape, the garden.
John Parkes contributes a series of ink and watercolour drawings—his main practice in textiles can be seen in the line work, creating a visual stitch, like visible mending on the paper, each studies narrative and weaves humour into the subject.
Jo Cooper’s framed textile works speak of repetition of stitch, hand labour, and softness in structure. She incorporates the kept, little pieces of textiles from other places, brought together following threads of thought.
Ken O’Regan’s sculptural practices combine found object assemblage with environmental themes. This work mimics a museum display, incorporating found and repurposed materials to form an other worldly artefact, surrounded by the illusion of backlit stained glass.
Sarah Crawford is a multidisciplinary artist centred on jewellery and textiles. Her work engages diverse materials and ideas to create thought provoking pieces. Through a meditative practice of stitching and making, each piece is encoded with the the ideas she explores.
Together, the exhibition explores the idea of “holding space”—for ourselves, for each other, and for the small yet profound presence of art in daily life.