Dwelling Space - Chester, Lindisfarne, Frodsham - 2009

Dwelling Space is the third installation from Cheshire artist Wendy Rudd following the eye-catching mobiles of Windsails and the journey through Nets. Her work surrounds the viewer with textile-based constructions which create spaces for reflection and discovery. 

It is a village of conical shelters – small temporary enclosures made of cane, string, paper and scrim which together form a large installation. On the floor of each shelter is one line from a poem written by poet Andrew Rudd to accompany the exhibition. Walk among them, look through, go inside. Find a quiet place. 
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The green in the centre of the priory on Lindisfarne is an enclosed space. One summer’s evening it was filled with cream tents, preparing for a medieval festival. A circle of grass became a home for a while. The next day they were gone.  

De Caussade wrote a book called ‘The Sacrament of the Present Moment.’ Alfred North Whitehead  uses the phrase ‘The present is holy ground’
Andrew Rudd’s poem ‘Dwelling’ seeks to capture this concept.

I use the words Dwelling Space and construct temporary shelters with cane and thread.

Wendy Rudd

 

St Thomas of Canterbury Church
Parkgate Road, Chester
(next to the University of Chester)
Church is open every afternoon Monday 2nd ~  Friday  6th November
and then every Wednesday afternoon in November

St Laurence Church, Frodsham
September and October. 2009

St Cuthbert Centre, Lindisfarne
August 2nd - 15th  2009

Wesley Methodist Church, St John Street, Chester.
April 7th — May 26th 2009 

 

 

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