Suffer Change No. 3
Artist: Melissa Hill
10 cm square, polycotton scrap and rag saree
Melissa's work is about human rights abuses. Suffer Change is an ongoing project using scrap fabric from past installation works.
She makes work using the forms of domestic items and home decor to explore human rights abuses occurring today.
About the artist:
Melissa's artistic practice is inspired by her love of traditional and feminine decorative motifs, mixed up with boiling political outrage, resulting in uncomfortable pieces for the home exploring themes of ethnic identity, and international migration and displacement.
You can see more of Melissa's work in her solo show at TOD The Cabinet of Self
Instagram: @melissahillartist
Suffer Change No. 3 by Melissa Hill
Inconstant
Artist: Kirsty Hall
Paper, tape, thread, acrylic paint, ink (5.5 cm squared x 1cm deep)
The text reads: ‘All our broken pieces faded into nothingness’
This piece is about time eventually erasing all things. Although the experience of trauma can rumble on through the generations, the long-dead people in these photos no longer feel their individual hurts.
About the artist:
Kirsty is an artist & purveyor of obsessive projects living in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
Her art has been described as ‘the museum of the everyday’. Capturing the traces left behind by events or exposing hidden stories are central concerns. Working obsessively with huge numbers of small, common objects like pins, matches, stones and business cards, she makes art that explores fragility, repetition and loss.
She is currently making large textile sculptures, tiny art cards, art in matchboxes and one-off artist’s books
Instagram: @kirstyhallartist
Inconstant by Kirsty Hall
Matchbox No. 28
Artist: Kirsty Hall
Matchbox, photos, paper, thread, ink
“As the train rattled onwards, she finally understood how threadbare and worn she had become”.
Instagram: @kirstyhallartist
Matchbox No. 28 by Kirsty Hall
Name Contents
Artist: Sarah Victoria Spence
Mixed media collage on card
This piece approaches dementia and memory loss using exclusively recycled materials. Cognitive decline is an eternal battle with a prolonged sense of grief as one watches a loved one's memories slowly evaporate, replaced with repeated phrases, questions and confused conversations; recycled words and anecdotes. Sometimes shooting bravely to the surface are lightening chinks of rare and randomly recalled memories that disappear as quickly as they are retrieved. A temporary and brief shaft of light that links past to present, the memory is repaired and recreated in the way Kintsugi repairs and recreates. A brief reconnection of broken pathways until the barren recycling of repeated phrases, questions and confused conversations smother the fragile memory again.
About the artist:
Sarah is a mixed media artist working from her studio in Kent. She makes both large and small scale work experimenting with each material deconstructing and transforming each medium and their rules into one. Sarah uses acrylic and oil paint mediums, found materials, selfmade collage fragments, foil leaf and other mixed media as a means of experimentation, playing with the ideas of space and process typically using portraiture, mythology or land/seascapes as inspiration and a starting point. Sarah does not look for a formula to reproduce but rather she immerses herself in her work with a constant curiosity and a sense of potential discovery.
Instagram: @art_by_sarahvs
Name Contents by Sarah Victoria Spence
Still life, Kitsch Life
Artist: George Willmore
Material: Paper on canvas
Dimensions: 130mm x 180mm (A5)
About the artist:
Junk, Punks, and Adventures in Collage...
George's art makes use of the Reused, Recycled and Discarded paper waste that can be found in every home, second hand bookstore, and landfill across the country, repurposed to create something new !!
From the Weird and Wonderful, to the political, the abstract, the surreal, and sometimes the just plain silly.
Collage is an underrated medium of versatility, and that is what they aim to celebrate in their work through an often maximalist philosophy and themes of working class struggles, transhumanism, self reflection and an embrace of mess
Instagram: @sub.spacer
Still life, Kitsch Life by George Willmore
Repair
Artist: Rosalind Barker
Graphite Powder on iPhone screen protector 13 x 6 cm 2022
Responding to the open call REPAIR at TOD Rosalind chose her smashed iPhone screen protector. Shallow pockets in new jeans caused multiple major traumas in a matter of hours. Tiny cracks and chips split the screen while it held its iconic form. It’s a shape recognised by all ages, races, genders and religions. Drawing by coating in graphite powder the easily recognised object became a slender monument. Not just in external appearance but in its encased intent.
"Do we need repairing from our addiction to what the screen protects? It’s a direct dial to our emotions lured in by our need to be engaged and part of the bigger picture. We allow its power and nature: addictive, all consuming, potentially destructive. I hope this sculptural drawing reflects my Increasingly love/hate/worried relationship with my iPhone, a small discreet gadget with enormous issues that need to be addressed/repaired. "
About the artist:
Rosalind’s drawings playfully explore personal and domestic, yet universal objects. Her drawing methodologies of using fine dots, lines or rubbings on delicate papers reflect her interest in the transience and traces of human presence and absence. Beautiful and fragile her work both tempts and repels touch.
Instagram: @rosalinddrawing
Still life, Kitsch Life by George Willmore
Patched up Plant
Artist: Jack Woodward
Paper, cardboard, pen, plant, glow in the dark powder
Patched up plant is a fun approach to make something repaired using two similar in one sense materials yet completely different. Since the paper is not a living material yet has come from one and then parts have been patched up with found plant leaves they will gradually dry up. Sprinkled with some glow in the dark pigments for an extra bit of fun.
About the artist:
Jack Woodward is a Jack of all trades when it comes to the type of work he makes.
His work is about having child like fun and manipulating the space around himself through what ever means he can.
Jack embraces a different approach to the general format that everything seems to have, photos and videos must be high res and art must be crafted from the highest quality materials while anything imperfect or low quality is shunned, but it all breaks and nothing lasts forever. This is why he creates work that brings a sense of fun and an intentionally shitness or a conventionally challenging feel to the work.
Jack excels at making work that brings people together, drawing them in with laugher and makes space to feel joyous irrelevant of age, background or ability.
Instagram: @acardboardenkey
Patched up Plant by Jack Woodward
Where are the Women?
Artist: Imma Duñach
Vintage postcards and stamps
Where are the Women? is a collage intervention on a series of postcards of historical great composers, all of them men, with stamps of women. History has been written by men and therefore only makes them visible? Are we currently remedying this situation?
About the artist:
Imma is a Catalan artist living in Barcelona.
Imma works with postcards as a part of our memory, frequent reminders from places briefly visited. We file, archive and look at them to remember.
She develops her work digging in her grandparent's archive, reviewing and remembereing those trips from the sixties. Her collection also includes old postcards collected from different places.
Through interventions with needlework, thread, paint or collage, Imma changes the postcards meaning or intentions.
Instagram: @lalimalimonart
Where are the Women? by Imma Duñach
Broken Nation
Artist: Sally Eldars
Baked newspaper dyed with tea and turmeric and red pen
Are we broken beyond repair? Living in a first-world nation where migrants and refugees are mistreated thrown in overcrowded unsuitable places run by incompetent self-serving officials.
I don't usually exhibit my own work at TOD, but I was experimenting with a piece of scrunched up newspaper for my MFA degree project, and as I took it out of the oven (yes I was baking it), I realised I had inadvertently baked an article on our current home secretary and the crises with housing asylum seekers.
Instagram: @sallyeldars
Broken Nation by Sally Eldars
Growing Pains
Artist: Lydia Carda
These shoes are part of a journey, the journey of many immigrant families displaced around the world. These little pair of shoes represent the children that have to follow their parents journey having to adapt to their parents' struggles and mental conditions and the unrepairable effects on their young lives.
About the artist:
Carda's work is the result of observation of human nature and the interaction between human beings. Her work is created using delicate materials like tissue paper or cotton wool to explore the ephemeral nature of the human body and hence the fragility and vulnerability of our flesh and mind.
Since she does not reside in her native country, the topic that drives her work is displacement, loss and memory, and consequently other related topics such as political and social injustice, immigration, cultural conflict, gender discrimination and other types of discrimination or abuse due to physical or mental differences.
Instagram: @lydiacarda
Growing Pains by Lydia Carda