Simone Woolerton

Interdisciplinary Creative Sphere

Artist Sylwia Pydych and Mariusz Kubiś live in an abandoned village in Lefkada, Greece and have a vision to create an Artists centre and living space for Artists residencies, exhibitions and performance art.

“Without Art, human beings would be grey and sad “ states Sylwia, who was the driving force behind the opening of the centre.

“There is not enough contemporary art scene on the islands, most of the artists who wanted to pursue the career in their field left for the cities or even abroad, leaving the islands to wither away culturally”, she adds.

Today we are invited to celebrate the Grand opening of the centre where the artists participating will transport us to the world of fantasy, imagination, and emotion. There, deeply plunged in their world we will have an opportunity to meet ourselves and our inner passion.

Today, we are invited to dialogue with it, surrounded by creativity at its best.

Today we are invited to reintroduce ourselves to ourselves in the context of feelings which arise in us stirred by the emotional involvement in ART.

Welcome those brave collaborators who are not following a well-travelled road and who stepped forward in the direction of their dreams! And today we want to celebrate their bravery with you!

- Sywia Pydych

Simone Woolerton / Lilith Piper

LUMINATE

private view

Friday 2nd December

6-8pm

exhibition continues

3.12.2022 - 17.12.2022

Gallery At the Station

Station Approach, Frome BA11 1RE

'Stories cannot be told without being seen

And because every story needs illumination.' - Lilith Piper Journey Out of Eden The Book of Lilith

Artists Lilith Piper and Simone Woolerton multiplicity of painting on Litho Stone and Light in the Landscape. Illumination of Artworks celebrates the Season of Light.

Letters to the Stone

Exhibition of Lithography works by Artists Simone Woolerton and Lilith Piper. Letters to the Stone reveal the chapters of Lithography through its process from stone to paper. The Chapel houses illumination of the Lithograph and its timeless techniques.

Simone states “We are fascinated by the alchemy of Lithography and how working with Lithography our paintings have a life of their own. We want to communicate this through the matrix of lithography with our Letters to the stone; conversations with the lithography process unfolding from stone to paper. The etching process in lithography chemically changes the surface of the matrix and the image is printed from the flat surface of the stone. I question the nature of these materials and how they behave beneath the surface.”

Lilith and Simone show the traditional techniques of lithography in a new light through their Letters, Poetry, Painting, Prints and Performance works.

How can this conversation with stone and its process evoke story, myth and performance? 

Lilith writes; Wherever the crayons mark the stone it becomes grease loving, the rest of the stone is treated so that it becomes water loving. Through the chemical process the fatty-acid particles contained in the drawing are liberated, permitting them to combine with the stone itself, and there is no longer need for the drawing materials that contain it. The drawing is allowed to be free but also controlled and contained. The design of these images appear as figures or traces of the human body. Through this process they are not 2D but sculptural, alive and held in a shape. 

Lilith likens the stones to human female form in reference to the Christian legend that Merry Maidens and Nine Maidens stone circles, where women were caught dancing on the sabbath and were petrified as a result. The free dancing women shall be awakened through performance, a percolating poetry in the body, Lilith pursues lithography to deepen her drawing and conversation with stone and the natural world. Duality within nature (such as yin, yang, positive negative etc) is expressed through the Painterly and the pictorial and figurative imagery provide means of tapping into this elemental understanding. In the way that in nature the constant change in light, weather, seasons, and cycles affect a sacred place such as a stone circle or temple.

Lilith Piper works in painting, textile, print, drawing and performance. Her works draw on a rich history of folkloric, magical and mythological imagery which she employs not as mere representation but as an active reimagining and evocation of collective archetypes. Drawing on a repressed but powerful history of feminine sexuality, ritual, wisdom and practice – one in which woman were routinely cast as abject and feminine pleasure as a kind of terror or poison – she redeploys and reimagines various cultural stories, histories and myths, recovering them from fairy-tales and folklore in order to reanimate them for the contemporary world. Her works operate as powerful, poetic images and objects, flowing and flickering into existence like the formless, fluid sounds of a song – reclaimed from a repressive patriarchy to which they were both subject and object, a journey out of Eden retold by a new Eve. *

     *Text written by Martin Clark, Director of Camden Arts Centre.