Kirsty Hall is exhibiting Pin Ritual at Prick Your Finger in Bethnal Green until Saturday. You can join Kirsty for a Pin Performance on Saturday 28th February between 1 and 3pm.
Kirsty's art can be described as the 'museum of everyday'. Capturing the traces left behind by events and exposing hidden stories are central concerns. Working obsessively with huge numbers of small, common objects like pins or matches, she makes art that explores fragility, repetition and loss.
Prick Your Finger, 260 Globe Road. Bethnal Green, London E2. A lovely shop and gallery for all things knitted and crocheted run by Rachael Mathews and Louise Harries. Their current show until Saturday is by Kirsty Hall.
"Mandy Prowse studied painting and printmaking at Maidstone College of Art. She explores natural and human forms and the interconnectedness of all things. Themes in her work relate to birth, mortality and metamorphosis. Her altered books are minimalistic and organic combining a modern aesthetic with an almost Victorian touch. If you told me these books were 100 years old I wouldn’t think twice about it.”
Jason Thompson, The Rag and Bone Bindery