Articulation - Entwined: Leanne Poole, Nicole Kemp, Pip Burgess

Entwined are a group of like-minded artists using recycled materials and handmade paper as the medium to visually discuss art community and current affairs.

Leanne Poole - Papermaker - @pulp.paper.maker Leanne’s work is spontaneous and intuitive, driven by her materials which are paper (often handmade), found objects, and objects from nature. Texture, pattern, colour and shape are often developed in the papermaking process, where she continues to experiment and explore. Further depth and complexity are then layered through burning, stitching, mark-making, scratching etc. The works and themes are influenced by Leanne’s background in Electrical Engineering and Software Development. Traditional software is logical and modular and follows patterns.

For this exhibition, it is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that is being explored. Huge advances in this technology mean that it is already widely used and sees the world on the cusp of rapid changes and many unknowns.

Nicole Kemp - @nekemp In our western world ‘rules of art’, the canon, hand stitch simply does not get a gig. Associated with women and the domestic, it is relegated to the lowest on the list of creative practices... its cultural memory deemed not worthy. Poignantly, this precious work explores themes of motherhood, pregnancy, family and children.

Hand stitched work is often not big, they do not appear vigorous in their production, and they do not always pursue the topics outdatedly considered ‘great’. When I produced this work, apparently my thought processes are seen as somehow lesser; not as intellectual, passionate and resolute. I can even see the way people look at my work. I notice that they do not see it as being as important as painting. All those old prejudices unconsciously enter their heads and reduce its value.

Today people are questioning these rules, but we have an awful long way to go. I implore you to freshen your eyes and senses to this less traditional art form.

Nicole kemp is known for both her intensely personal and intimate art, as well as her bold craftivist work that challenges people’s ideas of social justice through direct slogans and statements. Issues of family, motherhood women rights and feminism are a recurring theme. In keeping with her awareness of waste and environmental concerns, Nicole endeavours to use only fabric remnants, scraps and thread that are donated to her by friends and family. Once owned by mothers, aunts and grandmothers, these materials take on new meaning as they are stitched and woven into Nicole’s work.

Pip Burgess Using inherited, gifted, swapped, op-shopped and hard rubbish finds as materials, inspires Pip into an exploration of multi purposing across many disciplines, that lead to fabulous unique applications and art works.

The transference of different techniques is continually applied to multiple mediums. Pip regularly dabbles in ceramics, plant-based papermaking, textiles, sculpture, drawing and painting, marine collages both static and mobile, print making, collagraphy, art restoration, mosaics etc.

Researching the history of embroidery and associated textile disciplines from around the world provides great motivation for her textile work. The examples, origins and uses of early textile works of art of our foremothers, are certainly an inspiration!

The need to be very inventive, adaptive to limitations and restrictions has been necessary to materialize the ideas that evolve into the final piece. The conception and creation of a unique piece from random, discarded, and unwanted materials proves very rewarding.

Most recently Pip has been working on garden art installations and metal-based sculptures. Oxidizing prepared creations constructed from found and gifted items transforms them into wonders of the marine and terrestrial worlds.

Whilst nearing the exciting completion of a current work, thoughts of the next piece are gently forming …