“We felt that there was a need and a desire to have more opportunities for artists on the island to share their work, because it’s quite an isolated way to spend your time,” said the exhibition’s organiser Myra Gilbert.<\/p>\n
What started as a small open studios initiative has grown into a network of more than 70 artists. <\/p>\n
Members of the creative network were invited to respond to the theme of “traces”.<\/p>\n
It prompted a range of responses, with artists exploring everything from family photographs and personal memories to Manx history, landscapes and the environment.<\/p>\n
Gilbert, who has a background in fashion, designed her display to revolve around the story of her great-grandmother, who married at the age of 18 in 1891. <\/p>\n
Using tissue paper, Gilbert recreated an outfit worn by her ancestor in a historical photograph. <\/p>\n
“The work reflects on the different expectations placed upon women across generations, and the traces of a life led, through memories and family documents,” she explained.<\/p>\n
Gilbert also explored themes of childhood memories of collecting flowers, and making “fairy shoe shops,” incorporating Manx wildflowers and language into her pieces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We felt that there was a need and a desire to have more opportunities for artists on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-489728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}