Who we are
Project Directors
Caitlin Heffernan
Caitlin Heffernan is an installation artist who uses materials as metaphor. Her installations, embroidery pieces, drawings and photographs have been triggered by domestic objects, fabrics and family photographs that recall a previous time and moment.
Website: http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=8158
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Polly Harknett
Polly Harknett is a contemporary art curator. Her work aims to encourage debate and broaden enjoyment of contemporary craft. She was the contemporary craft curator for Hove Museum and Art Gallery for nine years and continues to support contemporary artists and makers locally and nationally for Unravelled.
Matt Smith
Matt Smith is an artist who works mainly with ceramics. He has shown at the V&A and the Barbican. Matt has a background in museums and curates craft exhibitions.
Website: www.mattjsmith.com
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Unravelling at Nymans exhibiting Artists
Gavin Fry
Gavin Fry an embroiderer living in Brighton in East.Sussex. He trained at Goldsmiths College and later at RCA. He has worked in the fashion industry and in psychiatry.
Website: http://embroiderystory.blogspot.com
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Unravelling the Manor House exhibiting Artists
Penny Green
Penny Green makes handmade painstakingly crafted objects and decorative forms.
The subject matter is mythical and psychological storytelling, the human body, animals and fairy tales weave narrative paths through her work.
Website: www.pennygreenceramics.co.uk
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Kira O’Reilly
Kira O’Reilly’s visual arts practice is both wilfully interdisplinary and entirely undisciplined; it employs performance, writing and biotechnical practices with which to consider speculative reconfigurations of body and bodies.
Website: www.kiraoreilly.com/blog
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Maria Rivans
Maria Rivans’ collages are created using an array of meticulously and intricately cut vintage printed ephemera. They refer to an existence without limitation, celebrating life amongst all the chaos and negativity
Website: www.mariarivans.com
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Laura Splan
Laura Splan’s work explores perceptions of beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort. She uses anatomical and medical imagery to explore these dualities and our ambivalence towards the human body.
Website: www.laurasplan.com
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