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Pharma’s Market is a mosaic installation, the culmination of a two-year research project exploring the contrasting imagery of historical and contemporary farming. It connects traditional ideas about food, agriculture and animal husbandry with modern developments in stem cell research and genetic modification. Although the setting of the exhibition is a traditional agricultural fair, visitors will experience an exhibition with a distinctly contemporary twist. I have an engaging story to tell, and my characters, from life-sized ‘robo-rabbits’ to ‘space scientists’ and ‘bucolic’ farmers, all jostle for their part in the plot. My stories are derived from the real world of science and medicine, albeit reconstructed through the process of my own particular visual imagination. Using recycled china to make the extraordinary figures, the surreal sense of humour is where I have made my mark. It’s as if the pieces of china I painstakingly chip at become fragments of DNA in my own genetic rearrangements of nature.

Although I am exhibiting at Frogmarsh Mill , it will also possible to peek inside my Studio and see the garden as Matthew Harris www.matthewharriscloth.co.uk will be opening his studio as part of the Textile Trail .

The Garden is looking fantastic and I am collectiing donations for The Museum in The Park who are developing a Courtyard Garden over the next few years, I have also been potting up plants and cuttings which will be on sale at the museum.

Stroud International Textile Festival ~Textile trail 'SIT', and Stroud Valley Artists 'SITE'.

This Year , Stroud will be buzzing as Makers and Artists open their studios as part of Stroud International Textile Festival ~Textile trail 'SIT', and Stroud Valley Artists 'SITE'. This is rather confusing , but there will be lots to see. I will be exhibiting at Frogmarsh Mill, with eight other makers including jewellery , ceramics, basketry and knitwear, however it is also possible to peek inside my Studio and see the garden as Matthew Harris www.matthewharriscloth.co.uk will be opening his studio as part of the Textile Trail . Opening times 10am -6pm