A BloomsburyJourney - London & Sussex
David Rhys Jones
Lewes, England
The Garden Wall at Charleston Farmhouse, Clare BarrettCeramic, t shows both sides of the wall with the front and backs of the busts aligned.
VW, Clare BarrettThis work appropriates an image of a statue (by Quentin Bell) in the garden at Charleston to represent Virginia Woolf. VW suffered with mental illness most of her life - so the work has been broken and stitched back together... as a metaphor for what she was having to do each time she had a breakdown. The image is overlaid with a letter written to her lover Vita Sackville West.
Pathways, Clare BarrettCeramic Wall Piece.n this work I followed the footpath across the fields from Charleston farmhouse to Berwick Church; tracing the footsteps of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant during the time (1940-42) that they walked each day to decorate the church with murals.
Bloomsbury, London, Clare BarrettCeramic wall plaques
Virginia Woolf, Clare BarrettCeramic Wall Plaque. ‘Virginia Woolf’ - part of a triptych. VW suffered for most of her life with bipolar disorder, for which there was no effective treatment at the time. Eventually she took her life by drowning in the River Ouse