Companion Planting at the White Box Gallery, 5 Hare and Billet Road, Blackheath, SE3 0RB.
13th-28th November 2021
A collaborative exhibition by Bridget Bailey and Margaret Proudfoot.
The idea for Companion Planting began through the need to meet outside. Walks on the allotment during lockdown evolved into looking, drawing and making.
From noticing how a tendril grips, to describing the anatomy of a grass stem, Bridget and Margaret each bring their own observations, passions and processes to this exhibition. Working together gives interesting insights into each other’s ways of making, thinking and has led to some intriguing pieces, from barbed wire sprouting shoots, to chain link fence ‘rewilding.’
Margaret Proudfoot and Bridget Bailey have worked within feet of each other for many years, with only a wall between them, but this is the first time they’ve collaborated. Clockwork Studios where they work has been fertile soil for them both to refine and evolve their original disciplines of sculpture, and textiles and millinery.
Life Cycle of Making, a project about the creative process shown virtually from the Art Workers’ Guild
16 -22 November 2020
Bridget explores her creative process though an installation that shows a body of work with all its inspirations and experiments.
It shows how ideas spark up from scrutinising feathers, and mutate through sampling in different materials – from wire and paper to needles – turning into a creeping insect leg and a chrysanthemum skeleton along the way, displayed on a 1 x 2mtr canvas. The words and diagrams printed and overlaid with silk organza reveal what it’s like to experience these stages from a maker’s point of view.
The project will be shown as a film, which can be viewed on this link at the Art Workers’ Guild website from 16th to 22nd November.