Today (Friday 9th August), sees the opening of a solo exhibition at Quay Arts by recent Ruskin School of Art fine art graduate with first class honours, Isabelle Kori.
On for four weeks, the exhibition is entitled The Lovers’ Nest.
“Bill had never seen such a beautiful bubble in his life.”
This installation features scheming narratives and unspoken spells binding together in a lovers nest. The undisclosed nature of Bill and Nancy’s relationship is determined through weaving ribbon, locks of hair, and golden love birds, but who’s narrative is the real one?
About the artist
As a multidisciplinary artist, Isabelle’s art practice encompasses drawing, painting, three-dimensional sculptures, stage sets, and prop making.
This dreamy set-up is a continuation of Isabelle’s work featured at the Quay Arts OPEN 2023 Exhibition: The Art of Sculpture, from which she was awarded a solo Clayden Gallery exhibition.
“It would be a little chapel wedding. Bubbles were blown at the reception.”
Strange, grotesque, mythical and theatrical collections
Templates, collaging, painting and creating armatures are a part of how these figures assemble. They vary in height and size, from limbs to facial features. She uses “props” and “characters” to “world build”, creating strange, grotesque, mythical and theatrical collections of works realised as a place between the real and imaginary.
Faux performances undertaken by numerous characters and performers have taken place, concluding in a trail of sculptures, installations and paintings as their remains.
A ‘Young Quay’ graduate
A graduate of Quay Arts’ ‘Young Quay’ programme for 14 – 18 year olds, since her time at school on the Island, Izzy has been appreciative of the continual support from Quay Arts and looking forward to working over the summer at the Oxford Playhouse, on the stage set and props for panto.
You may have also seen her three-dimensional sculpture at Ventnor Fringe in 2023, standing proud at the top of Flowers Brook hillside.
Where and when
The Lovers Nest runs from Friday 9th August to Friday 6th September 2024 (closed Saturday 10th and Saturday 17th Aug) at the Clayden Gallery, Quay Arts Centre, Little London, Newport.
Open daily from 9am to 5pm. Free entrance.
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