Jon Barraclough
Mark Beecroft
Andrea Booker
Eileen O'Rourke
Jessa Fairbrother
Richard Proffitt
Lucy Ridges
Emily Speed
Cherry Tenneson
A Collection of Artists' Discoveries is a group show of nine artists' work examining the themes of rebirth, identity and fragility which are discovered through a range of media including sculpture, photography, and drawing.
Jon Barraclough · Mark Beecroft · Andrea Booker · Eileen O’Rourke · Jessa
Fairbrother · Richard Proffitt · Lucy Ridges · Emily Speed · Cherry Tenneson
Cornerhouse is delighted to present Lost is Found, a group show of nine
artists’ work in Gallery 1.
Curated and developed by the Creative Stars, 19
talented young people from the Greater Manchester region, the exhibition
examines the themes of rebirth, identity and fragility which are discovered
through a range of media including sculpture, photography, and drawing.
Lost is Found provokes the audience to engage with the art, leaving the works open
to interpretation rather than providing answers to unmask the mysteries and illusions
on display.
Featured works include Emily Speed’s egg, nest, home, country, universe, a
glimpse into the dual life of buildings as physical shelters and containers for memory.
Spilt Milk from Andrea Booker reinvents abandoned signage from demolished
buildings, recreating subliminal comments. Richard Proffitt's Louisiana Blues
Anywhere is an absurd totem of the modern world that has been inspired by biker
and teenage subculture, the hinterlands of suburban Britain and the ghost towns of
Western America. Jon Barraclough's All or Nothing drawings explore the way in
which images emerge from the traces that all living things leave behind, whilst Lucy
Ridges’ photographic practice is a visual expression of all that can be imaginatively
derived from our everyday thoughts and subconscious mind.
The works demonstrate a displacement of identity, relics of childhood, secret
desires, fragments of memories and traces of history, reinforcing the idea that the
redundant and the discarded, the lost, can be rediscovered, reborn, and made
beautiful again - found.
Image: Jessa Fairbrother, The Rehearsal (dedicated to Augustine)
Cornerhouse
70 Oxford Street - Manchester
Gallery opening times: Mon: Closed, Tue – Sat: 12.00 – 20.00, Sun: 12.00 – 18.00
Free admission