Bound

Debra Eck

Phil Legard & Layla Smith

Stevie Ronnie & Susannah Pickering

Kate Desforges

Jane Chinea

Aine Scannell

Emily Towler

Louise Tett
I have looked at the theme of 'bound' from an emotional point of view, from the fact that our bonds to others are not necessarily tangible and that a spoken vow or promise can bind us to another.  These bindings radiate through families attaching people that may not even have met.

: by love and tears is an anthology of found poems relating to family bonds.  Each poem has been cut into thin shards and hand spun with fleece.  The fleece fibers bind with the paper to form yarn which has then been rolled into tiny individual balls, varying in size depending on the length of the poem.  A copy of the first line of each poem is attached with a pin, giving a glimpse of the text; but the cosy domesticity of the wound balls conceals the significant events such as birth, death and marriage that knit a family together.  There is an accompanying paper and muslin book which lists the poems.

Wendy Williams

I find paper a useful medium that can manipulated to bridge gaps between its delicacy and its strength.

Combining the use of paper with wood, creates layers, stacked and overlaid like documentaries waiting to be unlocked. The work however, does not open like a book, the pages are bolted down or have some other restriction, so the viewer is forced to stop and think before opening them.

Jane Kenington 

Amy Strike

Jean McEwan & Maria Cobo

Larna Campbell

Nicola Hafter-Smith

Darren Bryant

Jon Eland

Hilly Fletcher

Nathaniel Chang

Jan Millington

Heather Matthew

Glann Malkin

Linda Ingham

Janet Allsebrook

Roger Boygott