TOTEM : Modern Ikons in Paper & Stone
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Lauri Hopkins, Plinth
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Elizabeth Neville, Reclining Woman
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Rosie Musgrave, Composition IV
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Lauri Hopkins, Totem
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Rosie Musgrave, Bronze Totem for Sancturary
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Elizabeth Neville, Oblique Form in Ochre
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Rosie Musgrave, Wand
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Lauri, Canopy
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Lauri Hopkins, Parasol
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Rosie Musgrave, Composition IX, 2023
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Lauri Hopkins, Prop
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Rosie Musgrave, Eimi
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Rosie Musgrave, Ikon
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Lauri Hopkins, Black Pool
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Rosie Musgrave, Composition III
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Lauri Hopkins, Bus Shelter
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Larui Hopkins, Beach Towel
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Lauri Hopkins, Star
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Rosie Musgrave, Theoros , 2023
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Rosie Musgrave, Stone Totem for Sanctuary III
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Rosie Musgrave, Stone Totem for Sanctuary II
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Rosie Musgrave, Stone Totem for Sanctuary
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Rosie Musgrave, Kindred
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Rosie Musgrave, Implement
TOTEM [TOH-tum]
Noun.
"A usuallly carved or painted representation of an object".
I am delighted to have curated our Summer Show TOTEM, featuring the work of three women who's idiosyncratic creativity is inspired by key artists from Britain's post war period spanning the traditional disciplines of stone carving, oil painting and low relief collages.
Our exhibition TOTEM highlights these three modern icons. Lauri Hopkins, who's low relief collages and paintings feature the re-assembling of discarded materials. Created from an open and responsive place, her bodies of work become a visual diary.
Stone carver Rosie Musgrave explores her interest in rocks and natural forms through her abstract sculptures in alabaster, marble and limestone, continuing a tradition that is at the core of our built environment since humans first inhabited these islands.
And oil painter Elizabeth Neville's abstract work focuses on the investigation and deconstruction of the human form in a genre that remains at once familiar to the modern art world. These three modern artists bring their fresh and exciting creativity to Stow-on-the-Wold in a celebration of contemporary British art at its best.
We look forward to welcoming you to our summer exhibition at our gallery in the heart of the Cotswolds.
Simon Shore