From: 26 July 2008
To: 07 September 2008
DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads, Durham.
Contact Further Information 0191 3842214
To celebrate National Year of Reading 2008 we bring a range of exciting exhibitions and events for all the family, which explore artist’s interpretations of traditional fairytales and folk stories that are loved by children and adults alike.
Folk Art and Fairy Tales brings together new and recent work by ten of the most talented artists and makers working in the UK today who are connected by their fascination with fairytales folk art and legends.
The exhibits range from minute sculpture to large-scale installation, and are created from an extraordinary variety of materials. Many of the artists work with discarded, throwaway materials, weaving magic from wire, paper, recycled toys, old books and used tins cans, bits of leather and fabric scraps, bird feathers and even teabags!
Folk Art and Fairytales is an exhibition that will surprise and delight all ages and provide mystery, humour and wonder in equal measure.
Artists exhibiting are: Julie Arkell, Su Blackwell, Samantha Bryan, Lucy Casson, Jennifer Collier, Lowri Davies, Rachael Howard, Carys Anne Hughes, Jayne Lennard, Cathy Miles.
“An Oriel Davies Gallery Touring Exhibition”
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