Conflict, Challenge, Inequality
A Narrative Journey
An exhibition of poetry and art curated by Becky Nuttall in association with Robert Garnham and Artizan Gallery Torquay.
2018 marks one hundred years since the 1918 World War One Armistice and women won the right to vote. However, conflict and challenge and inequality continue on all fronts up to the present day.
In this selective open show, artists and poets will be asked to submit new work on this theme.
Exhibiting Artists
About the Curators
Becky Nuttall and Robert Garnham
Becky Nuttall
Becky comes from an artistic and literary background. She studied art in the early seventies
but got diverted by literature and, latterly, the social development of adolescents.
The research undertaken as part of her MA reconnected her to her own adolescence and it's influences.
She is a published poet and performs her poetry locally. She was highly commended in the Torbay Poetry Festival competition 2017.
Her work 'Bedroom shrine to the virgin of the rocks' was shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017.
Currently Becky's art work has two themes:
Art of the School: Religious influence and on an emerging young artist in the Seventies
Family Tree: Referencing the objects, places and influences in Becky's past
Becky paints mainly in acrylic but uses mixed media including materials she used as a child and student to enhance the reference to emerging child artists. Parts of her original childhood and student works are collaged into paintings and some have a deliberate naive quality for this purpose. Works with a reference to religious iconography replicate the paintings in her convent school.
Becky includes works by her father and children to show the artistic tradition that runs through her family. Her father, Peter Draper, owned Milton Head Pottery Brixham from 1950 -59 and became a successful playwright. He was a founder member of The Devon Guild of Craftsmen. The pottery site is featured on the Brixfest heritage trail app. Torbay Libraries held two Milton Head Pottery exhibitions in 2016.'Visiting