Skipton Big Ideas: Where Waste Meets Design
EXHIBITION WHERE WASTE HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO ART AND USABLE ITEMS OPENS NEXT WEEK
Tuesday 19 to Sunday 31 July 2002 At ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House
Kindly sponsored by Skipton International
We are all living in an age of waste. Our latest project Skipton Big Ideas: Where Waste Meets Design has been exploring what role design can play in leaving our throwaway culture behind and opens its showcase exhibition next Tuesday 19 July 2022 running through until Sunday 31 July 2022 at our new exhibition space at Capital House.
Locally, Islanders have had a long tradition of making the most of scarce resources and repurposing them. Globally, too many of us have lost connection with how things are made and the provenance of the products we use in our daily lives. This show is an opportunity for us all to rethink what constitutes waste material. What meaningful, useful and beautiful solutions may reside within these materials? And is it time to rethink what we use, lose and repurpose in our everyday lives in favour of an environmentally healthier and more sustainable future?
UK artists and designers were invited to the Island to work alongside our talented local creatives to deliver this stunning show. A number of members of the public visiting Capital House also participated in, and contributed to, the creation of this final exhibition through workshops and collaborative demonstrations. The show is open 10.30am - 6pm Tuesday to Saturday and until 5pm on Sundays.
As well as showcasing work made in the space, there is a display of projects from inspiring designers whose work address issue of consumption, finite resources and waste including Harry Peck (Wave Cycle), PriestmanGoode (Get Onboard), Anna Shipley (Climate Emergency Poncho), Gavin Keightley (Terraform), Luisa Kahlfeldt (Sumo Diaper), Basse Stittgen (How do you like your eggs?), Liz Elton (100 Harvests), and Helen Kirkum (Legacy Run) as well as a materials library of cutting edge samples ofnew materials created from waste.
THE WORK
Textile designers have shared their processes of weaving, stitching, dyeing and constructing garments. Furniture has been created from offcuts and broken items using innovative joinery. Paper made from office waste and packing has been imprinted with detrus found in the waste pile. Musical instruments have been fashioned from the most unlikely materials while broken tools were thoughtfully repaired and fishing ropes transformed into an entirely new artwork.
London based/Jersey born exhibition curator Kate Montgomery said: “Over the past five weeks the exhibition has slowly emerged from a huge pile of local waste. Each artist and designer has created something original and unexpected from materials that had been discarded. It has been wonderful to see these talented makers working in the gallery, generously sharing their processes and skills with us. Jersey is unlike anywhere else and the works created during this exhibition by artists, designers and visitors all have something of that uniqueness. Whether it is a limpet shell that has found its way into a piece of furniture, a woven textile unexpectedly inspired by the pattern in a lobster pot, or the collaborative stitches of visitors and makers on a jacket or quilt.”
Skipton Big Ideas: Where Waste Meets Design set out to celebrate Jersey’s ongoing commitment to recycling, repurposing and reusing materials that would otherwise be wasted. Islanders have a long tradition of making the most of scarce resources and repurposing them. By engaging in some of the processes employed by the designers and makers to rework, repair, reform, and redesign we can contemplate what we might consider waste in future.
The Skipton Big Ideas: Where Waste Meets Design Final Exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday 19 July running until Sunday 31 July at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 10.30am - 6pm Tuesday to Saturday and until 5pm on Sundays.
