Residencies
Maker in Focus @ Oriel WrecsamAngela Maddock
06 June - 31 July 2016
Maker in Focus is a showcase of excellence within Applied Art & Design, showcasing work by both emerging and established makers. Based on the ‘Maker in Focus’ space at Mission Gallery, Swansea, Oriel Wrecsam are now working in partnership with Mission Gallery to introduce this programming strand to North Wales.
Maker in Focus @ Oriel Wrecsam: Angela Maddock - Mothers are Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Angela Maddock is particularly interested in how we might use craft practice, especially knitting, to question ideas about our relationships with things and with each other. This current body of work focuses on the tools of making and unmaking in relation to the transitional space described by Donald Winnicott. Angela interprets the space between mother and child as a holding space, a place of nurturing and attachment, but also one of greed, obsession and desire. Here she plays with the material function of scissors and needles to suggest a space that is playful but also formless, overwhelming and potentially smothering.
