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Francis Crowe: Story Cloths
Gestures, Journeys and Genealogies
My Exhibition explores themes of memory, displacement and trauma. My chosen medium is tapestry weaving, drawing in thread. My day-to-day art practice involves age old gestures of loom and shuttle, warp and weft, creating images that bear witness to the human journey at both personal and inter-personal levels. The images in the Story Cloths Exhibition reference the losses and traumas we encounter in our life journeys and the human suffering so present to-day resulting from geopolitical power struggles and the cultural and economic upheavals impacting on the poorest peoples, particularly women and children. Tapestry weaving provides me with a rich visual language and a conceptual framework to express my deepest concerns as an artist as I attempt to weave a web of insight and hope in our dark times.
