Bollington Arts Centre
17th January 2025 to 16th Feb 2025
FREE
Opening event followed by exhibition every Sunday 14:00 - 16:00 and during other events

Dwell by Mel Ashby and Lisa Matthews

“…Their shoreborne bodies will never know alone / only know home / Home. Home. Home. (Lisa Matthews)

Launch of an exhibition of paintings and words.

On the island of Menorca, the most easterly of the Balearic Isles, is a once lovely house in a state of collapse – a white-walled sea-dwelling that stands among cacti, succulents and wild olives – looking out over a sparkling azure cove. The house is surrounded by cliffs pitted with ancient caves where the islands’s Bronze-age inhabitants brought their dead to mourn, to bury.

This place is the setting for a unique collaboration between artist Melanie Ashby and poet Lisa Matthews, as they return again and again, to uncover and discover a dwelling place for the living and the dead, beginning and ending. They invite you to an evening of sunlit words and poetry and the ensuing exhibition inspired by “Solita”.

Opening poetry event and a glass of Pomada (Menorca’s lemonade with gin)

17th January, 6.30 – 9pm

Exhibition runs from 19/01/25 – 16/02/25, open to the public each Sunday between 2pm and 4pm and during other events

 

Bollington Arts Centre
Wellington Road
Bollington, SK10 5JR

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01625 573863

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