{"id":216139,"date":"2025-12-29T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216139\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:25:07","slug":"creating-artwork-slowly-brought-me-back-to-me-manx-artist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216139\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Creating artwork slowly brought me back to me,&#8217; Manx artist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her first solo exhibition, the display includes three textile light sculptures which show the different stages of recovery, along with porcelain sculptures, paintings, a fabric installation and a wooden screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams said the display encapsulated her road to recovery, which had been &#8220;quite painful, but it came with some really beautiful life lessons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was really inspired by the landscape while I was back on the Isle of Man,&#8221; she said, such as the standing stones, the highlands, and trees which had been shaped by strong winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drawn to higher areas where blueberries, gorse and heather would grow, she said those landscapes were &#8220;beautifully bleak&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was trying to create this ghostly, beautiful, eerie feeling in the work, like when you lose yourself and you slowly return back to yourself,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a love letter to the land that held me, the pain that changed me, and the version of myself I never expected to meet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exhibition, which is currently on in Bethlem Gallery in London until the end of January, will be on display at the House of Manannan in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her first solo exhibition, the display includes three textile light sculptures which show the different stages of recovery,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-216139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}