Jacy Wall

36. Jacy Wall at the Portmanteau Gallery

Woven Tapestry

“My degree in the late 1970s was meant to turn me into a fabric designer, and although I never became one, it was a training that has had a lasting influence on my subsequent practice as an artist.  After graduation I quickly moved into making one-off woven tapestries, with printmaking and then ceramics coming into the mix each after 20 year gaps. Whichever media I am working with, the nature of textiles continues to be a central theme, playing with pattern, structure and stitch, sometimes deconstructing work and piecing things together again. I sometimes take scissors to a tapestry that I’m not quite happy with, editing and adding until it feels it has something more to say, and the means by which it is re-made becomes an integral part of the piece. I find this way of working can be both a resolution and a new beginning.

Printmaking is an important part of my practice, creating a conversation between weaving and drawing, yarn and paper. I rarely edition more than a very few copies, more usually making a series of variations from one plate. A recent move into ceramics, which has offered a way of drawing in 3D, continues this practice of improvisation and re-construction.”

Portmanteau Gallery, 10 North Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3JQ
North Street is first right of West Street. The Pursuit of Hoppiness ale and wine house is on the corner. Portmanteau Gallery is 100m up North Street on the right at the corner with Rax Lane. Limited on street parking in Rax Lane or use Rax Lane pay and display.

07816 673463 ~ jacy.wall@btinternet.com
www.jacywall.co.uk

Instagram: @jacy.wall

Exhibiting with Bjork Haraldsdottir

 

Photo: © Pete Millson 2018.
Phone: 07768 077353 (UK).
2 August 2018.
Bridport Open Studios.