Wabi Sabi
Despite this diversity, the works are unified by common inspiration: Japanese art, the acknowledgement of our transient existence, and beauty characterised by an authentic form of imperfection. What makes Wabi Sabi so engaging is the space and focus it gives for each artist, allowing the viewer to become fully immersed in each work.
Review in Palatine Durham Students Periodical
I applied for a Curatorial opportunity with Empty Shop based in Durham.
The space was a pop up gallery above Durham Bus Station called TESTT SPACE.
At that time I met Helen Smith who had been busy studying for her PHD in Scotland. We had a few meetings and decided to bring in Dee Shaw a local Artist, and the three of us decided to organise the show together.
I had picked half the Artist’s and Gary Chaplin help me organise the Cabaret
for the Preview Night.
The show was a success with the locals and even people from Edinburgh journeyed down. Our biggest coup was showing Steve Gibson’s Grand Theft Bicycle fresh from a Japanese Media Festival, a hacked game which you can cycle around a virtual space and let rip at some infamous people.
All the Artist’s exhibited shared the Wabi-Sabi ethos of their creativity is a state of process and anything along the way can also be part of the ‘work.’
