The Gallery
Shape ShiftingPamela Rawnsley
04 April - 16 May 2009
A Ruthin Craft Centre Exhibition
An exhibition of such a scale is a rare opportunity for a contemporary silversmith and the work in this show was a major new body of work resulting from a grant from the Arts Council of Wales. The objects in this exhibition are a collection of vessels and jewellery inspired by the Brecon Beacons, the raw and rugged landscape where Pamela lives. Rawnsley is not replicating her surroundings, rather she uses the palette her landscape as her touchstone - for inspiration and her own interpretation.
In this exhibition visitors can study and contemplate the fine craftsmanship and detail of Rawnsley's very unique work. Elegant silver vessels with a warm gold interior shimmer as the light on their surface changes. Other works are sequences, with the purity of a glimmering silver vase juxtaposed by siblings in various shades of oxide or differentiated by gilding. Rawnsley manages to capture the power and strength of the landscape in fine pure forms which like the landscape will survive beyond the time of us mere mortals.
