Jess
Bugler

Each small box is flattened, scored, and printed so that the natural crumples and creases

interweave with unnatural marks inflicted by circumstance.  

They echo a physical reality, the plans of homes, our limitations. 

Delicate scored lines circle and cross denoting our paths as occupants. 

Simultaneously they conjure our internal world,

Marks and colours evoking our spinning thoughts and state of mind,

Meditating on our varying experience of containment and enclosure.

During Lockdown, Jess began to draw on found paper boxes.  These unconscious drawings became an exploration of our experience of enclosure, developing into prints and sculptures. The nature of the boxes, their folds, creases, labels, braille, meant that she was not drawing onto a blank surface but interweaving her intentions within a surface of found marks.  Printing these boxes, the prints became “an event that occurred beyond the realm of looking” (Jennifer Jones) with a sense of exposing something hidden, as the intentional and found marks relationships were revealed.   Colour added another dimension and reflecting tension and heightened emotions.

Seen in different ways, they have evolved:  turned from flattened prints, back into boxes, as sculptures holding their shape and fragility with a more extreme sense of restriction.

Charlie
High

 The underlying link between all of Charlie’s pieces is the influence of her environment. Many of them have an organic origin, adapted to be workshop practical and wearable as a piece of jewellery. 

In some instances Charlie has focussed on the texture of natural objects and in others she has concentrated on the pattern or the shape. Shells, leaves, flowers and pebbles have been particularly influential, as well as landscapes, buildings and other man-made objects. Even the feelings aroused by an object, place or an event have a part to play in her designs.