What does this remind you of?  

That is part of the beauty of Alicia Gledhill’s ‘Trilogy’ collection.

Alicia has recently completed her  MArt in Creative Art Practice, and we’re pleased to say that her work will be in the new exhibition at Collegiate.

Alicia has given us some insights into her work, and more details will be on display alongside the collection – we loved this paragraph in particular:

“I explore how everyday media can be worked into textile imagery, such as Blu Tac. While not a textile, the ways it falls when manipulated has a fabric nature. When size, scale and colour are withdrawn from Blu Tac it becomes a completely different material. There are similarities between the very small on earth and the very large of the universe:  the birth of a cell looks very similar to the death of a star. When these are made into an image the perception of size is lost. This effects how the viewer sees things: when the size of the image is lost then the mind becomes open to different options. But the mind will always try to find something in the work that it recognises. People often say ‘you know what this reminds me of’ in relation to my work…”