Derbyshire Arts Cooperative in Cromford

I have been for months preparing for this pre-Christmas show at the gallery in Cromford Mill, Matlock Bath.  It has been about opening a different aspect of the work that has gone into making the books: if books are about sharing stories, then I need to know why the stories are important int he first place.

Inevitably, I ended up with boxes: when I think about how a book referring to oriental rugs symbolises for me child labout in some countries around the world, then in a box I will put my feelings and memories about children being subjected to unjust pressure. Terror and despair at a tender age can be hard to bring out into the light of day, so it may end up inside a box, with very little sign of it permeating to the outter decoration.

The challenge is to maintain the tie without becoming too particular and personal; to express the acceptable and universal in a whole-argument way.

The show will be on from 12th to 19th November, at Arkwright Cromford Mill, Cromford, Derbyshire
http://www.arkwrightsociety.org.uk/All+event+details/AS+Events/Derbyshire+Arts+Co-operative