DRAWN FROM THE WELL
NOVEMBER 4th - 26th 2022
I recently discovered an ancient well under the roots of an ash tree at the far end of the garden in Lamorna, Cornwall. The entrance is deep and black, a portal reminiscent of an archetypal passage to the underworld, to hell, a hidden place. The well water seeps out and into the garden above. Drawn From The Well consists of a body of charcoal drawings, porcelain ceramic forms and stitched textile sculpture made in response to this site whilst on a nine month residency at CAST (Helston, Cornwall). It has become a space I think of as a symbolic womb, a vessel, a dark passageway with tangled roots that leads to something unknowable. A place of longing.