Lucy Casson is exhibiting her tin sculptures at the Godfrey & Watt Gallery, Harrogate until August 16. The gallery in Westminster Arcade, Parliament Street, has exhibited her work since the early 1990s but this is its largest Casson exhibition so far and all pieces are for sale.

"Her work has always proved enormously popular and last year, when her touring show visited the Mercer Gallery here in Harrogate, it attracted a record number of visitors," says Alex Godfrey of Godfrey and Watt.

Casson studied textiles at Camberwell, and began a career as a weaver. Her sculptures are made of recycled, printed tin often incorporating household articles scavenged from junk yards.

Born in 1960, Casson says much of her childhood was spent "constructing things out of jumble sale finds and bits lying around". The tin sculptures originally featured everyday people but they have since evolved into quirky creatures engaged in their own world of activity yet mirroring human behaviour. Lucy believes that her sculptures "create a little world of everyday moments".

In Godfrey and Watt's other gallery in Westminster Arcade, Emma Dunbar is exhibiting a small group of paintings inspired by the seaside, birds, boats and the flotsam and jetsam of harbours. Her work depicts the decorative qualities of everyday objects. Dunbar paints in acrylic but she highlights elements occasionally using gold and silver leaf.

Opening hours for this Harrogate Festival Exhibition are 10am to 5.30pm, Monday to Saturday.

Updated: 09:15 Friday, August 01, 2003