Exhibition Announcement: Narratives in Times of Absurdity
Posted:
**EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT**
We are pleased to announce, all going well, that we will welcome Norman Sutton-Hibbert to the Kelly Gallery in May 2021. His mixed-media exhibition Narratives in Times of Absurdity will launch on the 15th May and will run until the 5th June 2021.
‘Jimmy Dean’, mixed media by Norman Sutton-Hibbert.
About Norman Sutton-Hibbert:
I’m a multi-disciplinary artist working in a wide range of media, and I aim to reflect that this is necessary to my artwork, and in particular to the work I will present in the exhibition Narratives in Times of Absurdity.
For many years now I’ve had a very real interest in using fabric and other found items in my work. Much this fabric is from personal clothing or functional household items – which I believe bring with them the DNA/history of the person who wore or lived with them. The same can be said of other material such as collage, or familiar objects. As a life long student of history – and today is tomorrow’s history – I’ve always been inclined to draw on the experiences of others, and also myself, in times where circumstances beyond our control, be they good, bad or just plain absurd, impact on our lives in wide variety of ways. And it is these narratives I choose to represent in much of my artwork.
Exhibition Announcement: Narratives in Times of Absurdity
**EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT**
We are pleased to announce, all going well, that we will welcome Norman Sutton-Hibbert to the Kelly Gallery in May 2021. His mixed-media exhibition Narratives in Times of Absurdity will launch on the 15th May and will run until the 5th June 2021.
‘Jimmy Dean’, mixed media by Norman Sutton-Hibbert.
About Norman Sutton-Hibbert:
I’m a multi-disciplinary artist working in a wide range of media, and I aim to reflect that this is necessary to my artwork, and in particular to the work I will present in the exhibition Narratives in Times of Absurdity.
For many years now I’ve had a very real interest in using fabric and other found items in my work. Much this fabric is from personal clothing or functional household items – which I believe bring with them the DNA/history of the person who wore or lived with them. The same can be said of other material such as collage, or familiar objects. As a life long student of history – and today is tomorrow’s history – I’ve always been inclined to draw on the experiences of others, and also myself, in times where circumstances beyond our control, be they good, bad or just plain absurd, impact on our lives in wide variety of ways. And it is these narratives I choose to represent in much of my artwork.
Find out more about the exhibition here.
Main image: ‘Speech is not the only language’, mixed media by Norman Sutton-Hibbert.
[Main image caption: Three flower patterned fabric guns sit on a black background. All three guns have a key chain hanging from the base]