Samuel Fordham: Divine Service
Free entry
Private View: Friday 25 September, 6-10PM
Open: Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 September, 12-5PM
A work-in-progress show from Spike Island studio holder Samuel Fordham.
Calling for the need to embrace a Dionysian spirit, Divine Service explores the role of individual and collective dance in a life-affirming philosophy. Using the monotype process, the dancers' movements, gestures and body are transcribed to the copper plate and printed through an intaglio press. In this way, time is distilled, and the entirety of the dance is captured on both plate and paper.
Samuel Fordham is being presented in conjunction with Peter Reddick Bursary Awardee, Isobel Robey, with her mid-year show: framing stillness, holding gentle familiarity. Find out more information here.
Celebrating artist printmakers who are technically and thematically pushing the possibilities of print, our Spike Print Studio exhibitions is coinciding with Spike Island's opening weekend. Spike Island are presenting the exhibition Beverly Buchanan: Weathering. You can find more information here.