Event: Enantios - Solo Show by K. Lyons
Friday 10 August 2018 - Wednesday 15 August 2018
Friday 6pm - 9pm, other days 11am - 4pm
Gallery Frank - Ebor Studio
William Street
Littleborough
OL15 8JP
DETAILS:
Enantios (meaning opposite) is an exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Kara Lyons that employs the process of mirroring; the duplication of one 'original' form into its replica image via reflection.
Processes involving duplication and reversal throw into question issues such as originality, authenticity, artifice, deception, corollary, opposition and conjoinment.
Kara develops spontaneous devices such as the drawn blot or 3D equivalent, the blob, to draw multiple associations such as bodily fluids, dark matter, organic growths, botanical references and the subterranean, which in turn allude to phenomena associated with nature (and the feminine) in pre-classical mythologies and other female cultures. These forms have multiple references in nature such as bones (the pelvis/skull), liquids, plant forms, creatures and reproductive organs.
As well as the founder of Ebor Studio and Gallery Frank, Kara has a long established career as an artist.
In 2016, she was awarded the Rochdale Sports and Culture 'Artist of the Year' award. This is the first solo show for a number of years having spent her recent time on projects such as 'Guns2Goods' working with Greater Manchester police and peace charities such as Charisma, making artefacts from recycled guns. Her portrait of Erinma Bell can currently be seen at Manchester Peoples History Museum.
Kara will deliver a talk about her work at the gallery on Monday 13 August at 7.00pm. Free entry.
Entry fee: Free
Contact: Martha Lyons Haywood
01706 551001