PROPOSAL ACCEPTED: Wells Art Contemporary 2025

Established in 2012, Wells Art Contemporary (WAC) is a volunteer-led art exhibition that provides artists worldwide with the opportunity to showcase their work in the breathtaking setting of Wells Cathedral.

On the 1st August 2025, I was pleased to have been chosen by a panel of selectors for the Wells Art Contemporary (site-specific installation). The previous blog post highlights my proposal. With less than a week till my installation date (6th October), I would like to write about the journey since being selected and the process of making that I have undertaken to honour my proposal.

June 2014

It began by revisiting a past work called ‘Wound’ (2014) which was created for a site-responsive exhibition in the Wellington Hangar, at Brooklands Museum. This work repurposed remnants of canvas and linen leftover in the studio. Cutting strips like bandages, they were then wound around my little finger in a spiral formation. After being white-washed, form emerged and an object arose. At this stage the work was directly connected to a triptych of paintings called ‘Elevate’ and were the remnants of fabric leftover after stretching these canvases. (See Wellington Hangar exhibition in Projects).

May 2025 (11 years later)

Recently, I had started to paint again and as a consequence, an accumulation of leftover remnants of canvas and linen became evident once more. The renewed version of wound objects began as a slow build. It happened when I had a lull in the studio and my mind happened to direct itself in that direction. There was no particular objective, no end result and no thoughts of whether this was to become a work of worth. It was only when I took what I had at the time to a critique session, with a box as a means of displaying the objects, that I began to believe it could be taken seriously as a piece of work.