Monday, 25 July 2016

BELONG Installation Westgate Chapel 27th July 2016 Wakefield Artwalk




BELONG

 

Carrie Scott Huby

Traditional techniques, processes and experimentation are at the core of my practice coupled with ecological concerns.  Nature and environment are a continual inspiration which informs projects and collections. 

 

‘Lifeloom’ is a term I use to describe the narrative quality of my work producing artworks in paper, wool coupled with found and discarded objects. ‘Lifeloom’ represents locally sourced, re-cycled & re-purposed materials created in the mediums of Artist Books and Limited Edition Fine Art Prints weaving layers of image, process and story bound with inheritance skills and 1940’s utility ethos.

 

BELONG was initially a paper based  collection continuing with the Cherish project; which focuses my belief in cherishing our immediate and wider environment. I was recently very stirred by a visit to Staffordshire Arboretum Memorial, specifically the newly installed WWI Trench.  My grandfather fought this war, so once again I pay homage to him and all those who experience a personal war.

 


 

 

Wednesday, 6 July 2016

WWI thoughts for my Grand Father


Somme 100

My Grandfather was a TA.

My grandfather fought with the DLI.

My grandfather was gassed.

My grandfather was a stretcher bearer.

My grandfather was buried alive for three days.

My grandfather was saved by Canadian Troops.

My grandfather came home.

 

The war continues.

 

May we all move forward with a patient mind.

May we all move forward with a gentle heart.

May we be united in truth.

May we be united in peace.

May find stillness still with love.


 
Silent Witness - Grandfather, Unknown compatriot, decimated tree. 
  Mixed-media on paper.
 
My Grandfather  stood on the right.  when I first viewed this photograph I thought my Grandfather was very, very old. He would of been in his early twenties. It was taken in France.
 
 
Silent Witness - drawing of my thoughts on the sounds of The Front
charcoal & pastel on paper