CHESTER – The College of Chester’s metropolis centre artwork gallery is showcasing a collection of very good exhibitions that includes work by College workers and college students previous and current over the subsequent few weeks.
Up to date Artwork Area Chester (CASC) in Castlefield Gallery, New Artwork Areas is presently exhibiting Chester by way of the many years as documented by Cheshire Life journal, which celebrated its ninetieth anniversary in 2024.
Organised and curated by Dr Matt Davies, Senior Lecturer in English Language, and Alice Horner, second-year BA English Literature scholar, the exhibition – titled Chester Lives in Cheshire Life – consists of archive journal covers, articles on Chester’s buying centre, sporting occasions, historic buildings and extra. The exhibition has been funded by a Tradition and Society RKEI Breaking Boundaries grant and has assist from Cheshire Archives and Native Research, in addition to Cheshire Life editor Joanne Goodwin.
Working parallel to this exhibition is Bakestonedale Moor – wind, climate and a cellular artmaking equipment. Following the doctoral analysis undertaken by Sabine Kussmaul on the College, this exhibition paperwork the event of a visible arts apply on the panorama of the Peak District.
Each exhibitions run till Could 2, with the gallery open between 11am-4pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
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Working from April 23 to Could 5 on the home windows of the previous Topshop unit on the Grosvenor Procuring Centre is Gathering Stillness, a brand new exhibition by Chester-based interdisciplinary artist Estelle Woolley. This distinctive exhibition presents a contemplative glimpse into the artist’s world, evoking quiet reflection and connection to nature by way of a collection of sculptural assemblages.
Central to the exhibition is a garment sculpture resembling a large nest that embraces the mannequin’s kind – accompanied by documentary photos from a life drawing occasion. Alongside this, delicate sculptural works – some newly created, others reimagined – are imbued with new life and which means. The supplies used carry deeply private and rural histories: farming instruments, cow tooth, baler twine, horsehair, fragments of ferns, and a baby’s stitching machine.
Estelle Woolley holds a first-class diploma and Grasp’s in High quality Artwork from the College of Chester, the place she has taught as a Visiting Lecturer in High quality Artwork. Her work has been exhibited and revealed nationally and internationally, and he or she has obtained a number of awards for her work. Notably, her photographic wildflower-masked self-portraits taken throughout the pandemic. She is presently the lead artist at Castlefield Gallery New Artwork Areas: Chester.
This exhibition is supported by Castlefield Gallery and the College of Chester’s College for Artistic Industries, Artwork, Design and Innovation and shall be seen to passers-by throughout the common buying centre opening hours.
