Sticking Ground
Sticking Ground is a trio exhibition with Hannah Dinsdale, Sophie Giller and Sophie Goodchild at One Thoresby Street, Nottingham. This collaborative show brings together the artists’ research into sensory awareness, embodiment, craft and processes of making. The exhibition features a commemorative quilt of One Thoresby Street and its members from the last fourteen years; a large bean bag which invites the audience to lie or sit within its malleable soft cushion; and A felted work that signals the ritualistic methods of making and constructs imagery through the process of layering.
Through sculpture, sound, textiles, and installation, these works are grounded in systems of connectivity and circadian rhythms: circuits, sounds, pathways, structures, circles, and loops that move between, interlock and weave through textures, materials and forms. Fibres are dyed, felted, and hand- and machine-sewn to create new soft combinations of materials and networks.
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Thoughts Outside the Head by Hannah Dinsdale is a large beanbag which invites the audience to sit or lie down, collectively or individually. Loops are appliquéd onto the surface of the beanbag, drawing from neurological diagrams depicting networks of the uncertain paths and journeys from body to brain and mind. Inside the loops, sensors translate body pressure into numbers and then into sounds which include ASMR triggers of a cat purr and tapping sounds. Interactive sound and its connection with the body is part of Hannah’s ongoing research into how we perceive the world from an embodied point of view: how we feel, touch, listen and see. Code was created with Alec Gordon