The Lord Mayor of York, Councillor John Galvin, will open the Reclaim! exhibition at the New School House Gallery, Peasholme Green, York, today. This selling show will explore how recycling informs contemporary craft and art, asking the question: How do artists and makers reclaim materials and ideas?
On show will be contemporary ceramics by Robert Cooper and Virginia Graham; mixed-media work by Serena Partridge and Jennifer Collier; origami by Yasuyo Cooper; wood and stone carving by Peter Coates and Nick Barberton; photography by Yan Preston; and jewellery by Gina Cowen, Syann van Niftrik, Suzi Tibbetts and Emma Gale.
“One of the delights of Reclaim! is the wide variety of materials that artists are re-working: paper, glass, stone, wood, even plastic toys and other found objects,” says Paula Jackson, the gallery’s co-director.
“But there are also other things being reclaimed, such as the Victorian patterns that Virginia Graham re-uses on her pots; or the house in Yan Preston’s photograph that the land is reclaiming from the reservoir; or sculptor Peter Coates’s Yat gate, made from reclaimed oak.”
Reclaim! will run until May 22.
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