Sandy Brown at Aberystwyth
Sandy Brown’s dramatic ceramics installation The Still Point and the Dance comes to rest briefly at Aberystwyth Arts Centre from 1-18 July
Sandy Brown received major Arts Council funding to create this installation and it’s been so popular with the public that it’s been touring venues across the UK since 2006.
The installation’s based on T.S. Elliot’s line, ‘At the still point, there the dance is’ from his poem Burnt Norton and is made up of two sections: one still and contemplative and one representing the energy of the dance. The first section is based on the Japanese tea ceremony – Brown trained in Japan in the 1970s – and consists of a meditative series of pots as well as hand-made utensils. In contrast to this restrained sense of ritual and calm, the second section is bursting with life and is full of Brown’s gigantic abstract ceramics. Decorated with her trademark colourful faux naïve patterns, some of them make you think of enormous (but friendly) tryphids while others are more reminescint of earthy fertility symbols. Whatever they’re meant to be, their impact is huge and this show is well worth checking out.
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