I *knew* I’d begun to write a blog about our commission from the Smiths Row Art Gallery here in Bury St Edmunds! But for some inexplicable reason I would appear to have ’parked’ it in a so-called safe place. Which means of course, that I’ve lost it somewhere in the ether.
Pip and Pop are two rather amazingly talented artists from Perth, Western Australia and they created the most extra-ordinary art installation at the gallery. They work primarily with coloured sugar, although they also use origami and miniature toys within their landscapes. Here’s a pic of a part of the installation which was known as ‘sweet, sweet galaxy’. You missed something very special if you did not get the chance to see this….
'sweet, sweet galaxy' by Pip and Pop at Smiths Row, Bury St Edmunds
The gallery asked us to create 3 x soaps with different colours and themes to ‘match’ the art installation. The soaps were sold as mementoes of this most fabulously ephemeral work. When the exhibition closed, then all the sugar was swept away. Gone.
So here’s a pic of one of the soaps I made for the exhibition.
Hope you enjoy the soaps… it was such a pleasure and honour to meet the artists at the opening for the exhibition. And I’m just sorry that we can no longer just pop into the gallery and see that fabulous sight.
