Exhibition Profile: Lines

What: Lines
Who: Ella Edwards and Sarah Featherstone
Where: Glas (The Blue Shop)
When: 29 June - 9 July
 
A collaboration between artist Ella Edwards and writer Sarah Featherstone to explore the question: Where does drawing begin and writing end?

Newport’s Empty Shops Project offers Sarah and Ella an opportunity to explore their own practices as writer and artist and how the two disciplines overlap and interact. There are many similarities between the activities of writing and drawing (motor and intellectual), which can be termed ‘mark making’.

We hope to challenge the oft-heard phrase: ‘I can’t draw’, from adults who have lost their childhood confidence in their own creativity. This was one of the reasons for naming the project simply ‘Lines’, as the very word ‘draw’ can be enough to inhibit people. But doodles done while on the phone for example are proof of what anyone can achieve when the conscious mind is diverted and creativity is allowed to flow!

So come in and have a go and see what we can create together.

Who knows where the lines will take us…

ARTISTS:

Ella has recently completed her Fine Art degree at Newport School of Art and Design and is defining her practice as a painter within a broadly figurative theme. Ella has a passion for colour and is interested in the materiality of paint as a substance and in drawing as a means of expressing the subconscious.

Sarah has an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University College. She has recently completed one of the Newport Superdragons - Awen (poetic inspiration), and is currently working on a poetry pamphlet and her first novel for teenagers.