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LOUCIA MANOPOULOU
Crafts of Child's Play:
Celebrating timeless childhood
11 June - 23 July 2016
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New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
This exhibition celebrates timeless childhood. At the dawn of the 20th century, Arts and Crafts reformers, social theorists and psychologists explored childhood. Artist and makers were deriving inspiration from the new movement of revising childhood. Children's innocence, and the naiveté they display in the exploration of their environment, offered artists means of examining social conventions or revealing absurdity. This kind of playful and unpredictable attitude to cultural norms initiated new, uncanny explorations in the work of expressionists and surrealists.
The work is showing playfulness and often an idiosyncratic childlike quality.
The exhibition is complemented by two workhops.
The exhibition presents work by Jenny Ayrton, Kim Bagley, Beatrix Baker, Ed Boxall, Jennifer Collier, BLOTT WORKS, Sally Nencini, Judith Needham, TheBigForest, Resurface Designs.
New Ashgate Gallery
Ed Boxall, BLOTT WORKS
New Ashgate Gallery
Beatrix Baker, Sally Nencini, Resurface Designs.
New Ashgate Gallery
Jennifer Collier
New Ashgate Gallery
Kim Bagley
New Ashgate Gallery
Overview, Basket by Judith Needham,
New Ashgate Gallery
Family Activity
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Wet Felt Workshop by Sonia Percival
New Ashgate Gallery
Printing Workshop by Ed Boxall
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