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Arts Volunteers

You are all warmly invited to this exciting free pop-up exhibition:

 

EXHIBITION: THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, LISTENING

Private view Thursday 15 October, 6–8.30pm
Exhibition continues Friday 16 – Sunday 18 October, 11am–5pm

Cambridge Artworks and Artspace, 5 Green’s Road

 

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing asks how we remember, commemorate and reconcile with the past. Bringing together the practices of Maisy Aykroyd, Theo Panagopoulos and Sid White Jones, the exhibition takes flowers as a central motif across moving image, photography and printmaking.

 

The exhibition explores the role of ephemera as a vital historical resource, documenting personal and communal histories that are often buried, overlooked or left behind. Drawing on archival footage from public collections, discarded photographs recovered from house clearances, and foraged flowers and foliage, each artist uncovers and reworks these materials through processes of collection, preservation and transformation.

 

Reflecting on the fragile materials through which memory is held and transmitted, The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing considers how ephemeral traces can offer more nuanced ways of representing and understanding memory, heritage and the past.

The project is generously supported by Cambridge Arts Society.

 

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17th October free workshop 1-4pm

A free collaborative workshop led by participating artists and curator of The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing, exploring personal and community heritage through collage, found imagery and natural forms.

The workshop will draw on the practices of Sid White Jones, whose work incorporates collage, discarded and collected images, slides and photographs, and Maisy Aykroyd, whose print practice incorporates the philosophy and practice of Ikebana, Japanese flower arranging.

The session will begin with an introduction to the exhibition, the artists’ practices and their work in the exhibition, followed by an informal conversation and Q&A.

Participants will then explore processes of collecting, cutting, editing and reworking imagery, considering how information and memories are transmitted, discarded, repurposed and remembered. This will lead into an exploration of arrangement and composition, drawing on the philosphy of Ikebana focusing on line, space, balance and our relationship with nature.

Working collaboratively, participants will contribute to a large-scale joint collage.​

To book a free place on the workshop please go to the Cambridge Artworks website:  https://www.cambridgeartworks.com/what-s-on

To volunteer to help at the exhibition over the weekend please email Holly O'Brien:  hollyobrienarts@gmail.com

Arts Volunteers

You are all warmly invited to this exciting free pop-up exhibition:

 

EXHIBITION: THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, LISTENING

Private view Thursday 15 October, 6–8.30pm
Exhibition continues Friday 16 – Sunday 18 October, 11am–5pm

Cambridge Artworks and Artspace, 5 Green’s Road

 

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing asks how we remember, commemorate and reconcile with the past. Bringing together the practices of Maisy Aykroyd, Theo Panagopoulos and Sid White Jones, the exhibition takes flowers as a central motif across moving image, photography and printmaking.

 

The exhibition explores the role of ephemera as a vital historical resource, documenting personal and communal histories that are often buried, overlooked or left behind. Drawing on archival footage from public collections, discarded photographs recovered from house clearances, and foraged flowers and foliage, each artist uncovers and reworks these materials through processes of collection, preservation and transformation.

 

Reflecting on the fragile materials through which memory is held and transmitted, The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing considers how ephemeral traces can offer more nuanced ways of representing and understanding memory, heritage and the past.

The project is generously supported by Cambridge Arts Society.

 

​

17th October free workshop 1-4pm

A free collaborative workshop led by participating artists and curator of The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing, exploring personal and community heritage through collage, found imagery and natural forms.

The workshop will draw on the practices of Sid White Jones, whose work incorporates collage, discarded and collected images, slides and photographs, and Maisy Aykroyd, whose print practice incorporates the philosophy and practice of Ikebana, Japanese flower arranging.

The session will begin with an introduction to the exhibition, the artists’ practices and their work in the exhibition, followed by an informal conversation and Q&A.

Participants will then explore processes of collecting, cutting, editing and reworking imagery, considering how information and memories are transmitted, discarded, repurposed and remembered. This will lead into an exploration of arrangement and composition, drawing on the philosphy of Ikebana focusing on line, space, balance and our relationship with nature.

Working collaboratively, participants will contribute to a large-scale joint collage.​

To book a free place on the workshop please go to the Cambridge Artworks website:  https://www.cambridgeartworks.com/what-s-on

To volunteer to help at the exhibition over the weekend please email Holly O'Brien:  hollyobrienarts@gmail.com