Clickity Clackity Anarchy
An exhibition of new work from artists from the West Midlands.
The Gallery Space
BIAD
Margaret Street
Birmingham
B3 3BX
Following the worldwide economic downturn there has been a reported resurgence in an interest in home crafts such as embroidery, dressmaking, knitting and crocheting, skills which have long been regarded as the domain of the domestic and the hobbyist.
However home and hobby crafts and have now entered the artistic mainstream, reflecting the intertwining of our modern complicated lives, but are being subverted from their conventional conservative stereotype, and taking on a more sinister and unpredictable nature.
Among the artists exhibiting will be Elizabeth Lee,Michelle Munn, Jaswinder Mehta, Laura Westwood, and Rebecca Parkes,Helen Grundy,Anne Guest,and Elena Cassidy Smith