Sbel

This exhibition takes the pastoral pause of the summer spell into strange and unexpected places. Lewis Prosser introduces us to an old technique of woven willow skibs, an old traditional form that is something between a sieve and a pan but this version incorporates car parts with cooking potatoes; rural boy racers, willow weave and hubcap trophies. It builds on a tradition of working with whatever has been found in the hedge.

Neda Mohammad’s illuminations and calligraphic works expand our time frame, with delicate and intricate artworks each formed from hundreds of hours of delicate work. These are meditations on the sun, spirituality, poetry, and the sublime sense of infinity found in minute pattern-making.

Abi Palmer’s series of moving image works, Abi Palmer invents the weather, takes the outdoors indoors, as she crudely replicates weather conditions of the world outside in a cardboard box, for an audience of her cats. Made during lockdown, these thoughtful and humorous films touch on isolation, companionship, DIY world building, where craft is directed by our imagination and need to play.