Exhibition details:

My Body in My Hands

SVA gallery
4 John St
Stroud GL5 2HA
Gloucestershire

Friday 5th – Saturday 13th May

Opening Night: Friday 5th May 5 – 8pm

Open to the public: Wednesdays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 10.30 – 5pm

Q&A session & Raffle: Thursday 11th May 6pm ( Includes my piece “Old hand” as a prize)

From the curators

“My Body In My Hands curated by artists Sam Lucas and Nick Grellier is an exhibition of images from their call out on instagram to post an image of a piece of work held in the hand. The works are a materially and conceptually wide ongoing response to the hashtags #mybodyinmyhands and #exploringtheneurodiversebody and are posted on instagram under the profile @theweightofbeing.

The core premise is to interpret how it feels to be (with)in the body and most artists have included a piece of text with their work. The exhibition is democratic and non-hierarchical – anyone can have their work in the exhibition alongside the ‘gallery’ on instagram and there will be a selection of physical works the gallery (nb artists do not need to identify as neurodiverse to be included in the project).”

…continues on SVA gallery website

Three small glazed ceramic hands in three different styles by contemporary ceramic sculptor Simon Fell. On the left is a turquoise blue hand about 8cm high carved with lines all over filled with red colouring. In the centre is mechanical looking hand 16.5 cm high, made of cylinders and boxes and coloured in an expressive way in bright blues, reds, yellows and green. On the right is a terra cotta hand 13cm high with ridges and troughs across it like a soft ploughed field. In the troughs is a metallic verdigris glaze and the rest of the hand is unglazed terra cotta.Max height 16.5cmAbout Old Hand

Old Hand is shown above on the left. I have made several of these three fingered hands, mainly at small scale and as a way of experimenting with styles of making. The three fingers are not particularly symbolic or representative of pixies or other mythology. I like to make them this way because they are clearly fictional, clearly made up rather than realistic. It’s interesting to me how realistic and evocative they turn out to be despite being anatomically incorrect.

This piece shows an energetic hand that wants to grasp something. It’s carved with lines all over the surface as if it has some purpose as a ritual object, as if it has symbolic presence or weight for its maker or users.

Size: Old Hand (left) 8cm h standing upright