Fe29’s holiday exhibition, Conversations, features many new works. Running until January, it is an evolving show enabling those who purchase, to remove works in time for Christmas gift-giving.
Introducing the exhibition, mezzotints (new to the gallery) by John Drawbridge sit alongside a series of Marian Fountain small bronzes of couples deep in conversation. Moving through the gallery, we are encouraged to imagine some of the topics under discussion.
In the main areas, the conversation centres around climate change and the need to care for our environment. Pacific drawings in mixed media by Christine Hellyar are accompanied by Marian Fountain’s Ecstasy Boat, water vessels in anodised aluminium and nickel silver by local metalsmith Johanna Zellmer, and small bronzes by Jim Wheeler, Marté Szirmay, and Samantha Lissette.
In other spaces, love, travel and aging are some of the topics of conversation in paintings, prints and sculpture by artists including Philippa Blair, Evan Woodruffe, Viky Garden, Bill Hayes…
(Please note that there are many more works in this exhibition than are shown on the exhibition web page).