Exhibitions
Foxlowe Galleries and Exhibitions
The Foxlowe Arts Centre has three exhibition spaces, the Gallery on the first floor, Cafe gallery in the Drawing Room cafe and spaces in the buildings ground floor hallways.
The Gallery open Wednesday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
current exhibitionHosting around 6-8 exhibitions a year, usually running for 6 weeks The Gallery is always worth visiting. The Gallery is completely staffed by volunteer stewards.
Drawing Room Gallery open Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Current ExhibitionThe Cafe Gallery holds a variety of smaller exhibitions of local artists along the cafe walls.
Hallway Gallery open Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
The exhibitions in the Hallways of the Foxlowe are often displays of local school artwork featuring a topic or theme, the relationships with the schools is looked after by volunteers from the Foxlowe Arts Centre.
The Upper Gallery
Foxlowe Arts Centre’s main exhibition space
Hiraeth Exhibition, the Upper Gallery | Sat 14th June to Wednesday 2nd July
Hiraeth Exhibition
Foxlowe Arts Centre Upper Gallery
The next exhibition coming up is by Mark Lippett and Karen Wicks, entitled Hiraeth, featuring atmospheric works of abandoned and unused buildings and other beautiful quiet places.
Karen Wicks is a printmaker and ex-art teacher known for her work inspired by derelict buildings. Her prints, often using intaglio techniques and recycled materials, explore the beauty of decay and the stories hidden within abandoned structures. She is described as a printmaker who uses intaglio print techniques to capture the presence and intrigue of abandoned buildings, with her work exploring the fleeting beauty of forgotten places.
Mark is mostly known for his architectural work depicting abandoned buildings, which has been exhibited across the UK in a number of solo and group shows.
Mark’s atmospheric drawings and paintings depict quiet and unpopulated landscapes both urban and natural. His work explores the relationship between people and the environment and how nature takes over the spaces we leave behind.
Working mostly in drawing and painting, Mark’s work is detailed but also expressive. He uses a wide variety of mark making techniques in different mediums, favouring pencils and acrylic paint.
There will be a Grand Opening on Saturday 14th June 10-4. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy a glass of wine with the artists.
The exhibition will run from Saturday 14th June to Wednesday 2nd July.
The Gallery will be open from Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm each week, and the first Sunday in each month, 11am to 4pm.
Carole Cluer, the Drawing Room Gallery | Sat 11 Sept to Sat 6 Nov 2021
“Graphite Drawings by Carole Cluer”
Welcome to Foxlowe Art Centre’s Drawing Room’s third exhibition of 2021.
Carole Cluer is an artist based in a village in Staffordshire
Primarily working in graphite pencil she hopes that her realistic drawings will encourage the viewer to consider life from a different point of view. She enjoys creating different series of work that will focus on a subject that is always close to her heart.
Social Life Series
Whilst on holiday in Spain Carole noticed three women paddling, fully made up and wearing glamorous jewellery, they were holding hands and laughing.
No waiting to fit into a size 10 before venturing on to the beach for them, they were busy loving life. She began to notice the lack of phones and gadgets, and the predominance of fun.
This light hearted series considers how life is in danger of being lived through social media and highlights how a full life goes on beyond selfies, hashtags and likes.
Because we are all beach ready…
The Kintsugi Series
An ongoing series focussing on portraits of people who have physical scars. However it is not the scars that are of primary importance rather the sitter’s relationship with them and the events surrounding them.
The work is a celebration of the passge of life and the traces it leaves behind on us all and how our imperfections can lead to a new, more authentic and substantive beauty.
The Kintsugi series invites the viewer to look within their own life to consider their own physical and emotional scars, to reevaluate their own self-image and to recognise a connection with others.
Carole Cluer
