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ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION - The durational, ephemeral and reflective qualities of flax and linen. Artists Amanda Coppes-Martin and Bridget Kennedy with curator Patricia Brien.

Amanda Coppes-Martin works with ‘reconstituted time’. Working with rehabilitated materials (linen, silk) and fibre paper gives a sense of fragility and ephemerality. This material tension allows the works to capture a fleeting moment in time; a disappearance embodied in space and illuminates the artist’s reflections upon human relationships with the material world and the earth’s attenuated ecosystems. 

As part of a larger research project into nuclear time and landscape, Bridget Kennedy produced a series of discs, made by combining linseed based resin, with flax plant fibres and mineral based products, which act as scrying mirrors. A form of divination, scrying requires the seeker to gaze into a reflective surface in order to summon answers from the beyond-human world.