Bond Street Gallery 'Warp & Weft' exhibition
Warp & Weft exhibition - opens this week with a new sculpture as performance piece from me!
Show runs 17th October to 8th November, 2026.
Artists and collectors PV 16th October by RSVP - info@sarahshaw.co.uk
Bond Street Gallery, 4 Bond Street Cottages, Brighton, BN1 1RP, UK
An exhibition "Warp & Weft' bringing together a diverse group of Sussex artists and makers. The exhibition explores the things that shape our creative lives: the materials we work with, the places we inhabit, the histories we carry and the choices we make along the way. What is inherited or given, and what can we change, challenge or make our own? Across a range of disciplines, the artists in The Warp and the Weft explore the relationship between structure and spontaneity, tradition and experimentation, connection and change. Each work begins somewhere, but what emerges is often unexpected.
'The days are made on a loom where of the warp and weft are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the sky web.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson - From ‘Works and Days’
I will be showing a new sculpture as performance piece:
A (.) Walker: a performance for walking, material and place’. (2026)
Film (sculpture as performance)
Artist statement:
‘A (.) Walker: a performance for walking, material and place’ responds to The Warp & Weft through the relationship between structure, repetition, material and change. The cloth represents a given or inherited structure; the warp; while walking, treading and working across it becomes the weft: an embodied, repetitive action that introduces movement, agency and transformation.
The film draws on the historical association of the Walker (my mothers name) with the physical labour of treading and fulling cloth, but reinterprets this relationship through contemporary performance. The body becomes the tool and walking becomes a process of making, where pressure, repetition, chance and duration gradually alter the material. The cloth records the action, becoming both a surface and an archive of the encounter.
The work therefore explores the tension between what is given and what is made, between structure and improvisation, and between inherited histories and their contemporary reinterpretation.
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