Join us for the preview of our solo spring exhibitions opening in HOME’s Main Gallery, offering the opportunity to see them before they open to the public.
Exhibitions of new large-scale sculpture by Nicola Ellis: Exercises in Knowing and Gabriel Kidd: I found the giant and he was dead, celebrate the work of two outstanding North-West based artists. Both practices express a reverence for materiality, the processes of production, natural evolution, and our cultural and social relationships to them.
Nicola Ellis: Exercises in Knowing
Ellis’ work is often created in response to contexts outside of traditional art environments, using discarded or overlooked materials, substances or subjects within industrial or scientific contexts. By combining sculpted, found and digitally manipulated materials, she creates forms that retain the traces of their origins exploring their ecologies and legacies.
For this exhibition Exercises in Knowing, Ellis has created three new bodies of work that extend her ongoing collaboration with the steel enclosure manufacturer Ritherdon & Co in Darwen, Lancashire. This work explores how we relate to industry, materials, and labour, highlighting the role of sensory and tacit knowledge in these relationships, as well as the ways such knowledge is communicated.
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Gabriel Kidd: I found the giant and he was dead
Through sculpture, drawing, sound, and writing, Kidd’s work utilises queer tactics of parody, fluidity and vitality, to explore mythology, ecology and history.
In this exhibition, Kidd’s first institutional solo show, they have created an immersive work of figurative and sound pieces inspired by local folktale, landscape, erosion, and medieval notions of time. Naturally dyed silk (with weeds, wayside trees or healing herbs), whittled pine arrows, poured/cast latex skin and eggs, and Kozo paper architectural forms are painstakingly crafted and stitched together with mass produced sequins or acrylic nails. In a series of vignettes, emotionally suggestive human forms appear in the ruined remains of a hilltop domestic dwelling.
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