The Gallery of Contemporary Textile Artists
Hannah Leighton-Boyce
United Kingdom
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If walls could talk, the last yarn21 balls of hand-spun wool, variable sizes.
Remains of unspun dyed/raw alpaca, cotton and wool fibre found within the walls of the spinning room at Salts Mill.
Date: 2013 -
An Empty SpaceVariable, site-specific
Two (modified) lamp projectors, fabric, thread. ["For a breath of time the silence deepened, a touch of meaning was there – an instant later it was brushed away and forgotten." – Peter Brook, The Empty Space, 1968]
Date: 2013 -
WhisperW 20cm x D 42cm x H 15cm
Hand built projector, hand stitched fabric in 35mm slide mount
Date: 2012 -
East Wing 1939-2011229cm x H 130cm (x 2 curtains)
Found Curtains, extended analogue exposure
Date: 2012 -
53.64875°N 1.33446°W81cm x 81cm
Individually hand printed typed words on Fabriano paper
Date: 2010 -
Hannah Leighton-Boyce
My work explores experiences of time and of space. My ideas focus around liminal moments of stillness, of reflection, and of pause; the caesuras within the rhythms in our lives when we become aware of our own awareness, our own being, and the passing of time.
Artist's Statement
