The Frames In Between
Artis : Kirsty Ludbrook
“\THE SECRET GARDEN\”
“But to go deeper, beneath what people said (and these judgements, how superficial, how fragmentary they are!) in her own mind now, what did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. Here was So-and-so in South Kensington; some one up in Bayswater; and somebody else, say, in Mayfair. And she felt quite continuously a sense of their existence and she felt what a waste; and she felt what a pity; and she felt if only they could be brought together; so she did it. And it was an offering; to combine, to create…”
- Mrs. Dall oway, Virginia Wolf, 1925
Kirsty Ludbrook “The Frames in Between”
Embroidery and manga are an unlikely match, but in Kirsty Ludbrook’s large-scale silk artworks, the painstaking technique is used to preserve the fleeting moment they depict.
Intricately hand-stitched, the embroideries are appliquéd into graphic compositions that each describe a single, reflective instant. Paintings on the same scale investigate different sensations of the moment, as Ludbrook manipulates paint to explore motion. Together the series of ‘storyboard’ frames build a sense of repetitive motion around the exhibition space.
Interested in the ways we attain knowledge of ourselves, Ludbrook here explores the simple moments of reflection in which understanding comes to us. ‘The Frames in Between’ – the undrawn frames in a storyboard – are those she believes are the most significant in the pursuit of self-knowledge. Continue Reading →