‘Still’, an exhibition by Alice Fox and Juliet Gutch has recently opened at the Tinker Gallery in Ilkley. The artists were invited to exhibit together by Joanne Tinker, artist, curator, and owner of the Tinker Gallery. As their work for the show evolved, they chose to take the word ‘Still’ as the unifying idea.

"I am thrilled to fill the gallery space with such beautiful art works," said Joanne Tinker. "The quality in craftsmanship by both Alice and Juliet is exceptional, the work elegant, creating a calm and tranquil atmosphere’.

The exhibited work celebrates the different materials and themes in both of their practices’ and shows how they have responded to elements of each other’s creative output. They exchanged materials which they each regularly work with and shapes which have already emerged from their individual processes, to see how the other artist might transform them further. Alice Fox and Juliet Gutch are represented by and exhibit with the gallery Jaggedart, London, and in varying ways they both work with natural materials.

Alice Fox explores found, gathered and allotment-grown materials, bringing different materials together to form tactile surfaces and structures. She is author of a number of books, including Wild Textiles and Natural Processes in Textile Art (both published by Batsford). She exhibits and teaches widely both nationally and internationally. Juliet Gutch makes sculptural mobiles with a variety of woods in response to observed patterns and forms. Often working with her husband Jamie, she creates abstract biomorphic shapes which are composed and suspended. They also work on larger-scale commissions which are fabricated, most of which have been for hospitals, and which all aim to explore a language of balance.

‘Still’ at the Tinker Gallery, 25 Church Street, Ilkley LS29 9DR, from June 20 – August 10, Thursday – Saturday 10am-4pm.