'Transfigured' Exhibition at Rachel Bebb Contemporary
Transfigured ("transform into something more beautiful or elevated") is an exhibition held at Rachel Bebb Contemporary. The exhibition celebrates letter carving and exhibitors were encouraged to use offcuts, in the spirit of recycle, reuse and reduce.
“At a time when some quarries are running short of certain stone, or the quality of what they are finding is diminishing, it seemed appropriate to try to make every piece of material matter. So, the idea sprang up for an exhibition which would challenge artists to reach into the corners of their studios, select an offcut, and elevate it, creating something beautiful from what might have been a redundant or forgotten slice of our planet. It seemed in keeping with the spirit of reducing waste and honouring natural resources.”
Catherine Samy. Lettering Arts Trust, Chair of Trustees.
The following works are available to buy from Rachel Bebb contemporary, please click here to see the whole collection.
Andrew Whittle - A Spring Calendar
Old Indian sandstone paving slab; lettering inspired by Saxon inscriptions 60 cms sq. £2,960
Andrew Whittle -
Eternity's Sunrise
, Eternity's Sunset
Kilkenny stone, from a scrap pile at the quarry, William Blake quote 39 x 22.5 cms sq. £2,960
Anna Louise Parker - 215 Million Years
Indian red sandstone offcut; letters denote the age of the stone) 25 x 50 cms £550
Annet Stirling - Roman Inscription
Purbeck pond freestone 42 x 65 x 3 cms £1,015
Emi Gordon - Angels Can Fly
Black slate 45 x 14 cms £1,440
Eric Marland - Genius Loci
Polished sandstone off-cut, probably Woodkirk from Yorkshire, polished Welsh slate base) 52 x 60 x 21 cms £2,960
Gaynor Goffe - The Tree
Calligraphy 60 x 44 cms framed £395
Helen Mary Skelton - And we, being mule-ish...
Alabaster, gold leaf 17 x 41 cms £1,035
Iain Cotton - Deep Peace of the Running Wave
Caithness stone, gold leaf 24 x 18 x 9 cms £1,780
Jackie Perkins - "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads"
Welsh slate, quote from Henry David Thoreau 50 x 25 x 2 cms £1,480
Lisi Ashbridge - Platter
Black American walnut, inspired by Keats 'Ode to Autumn' 49w x 28.5d cms £2,200
Louise Tiplady - Sing a Song' bookends
Carrara marble 5.5 x 31 x 8 cms £1,200
Matt Loughlin - Waste Not, Want Not
Reclaimed marble 33 x 35 x 2 cms £1,500
Maya Martin - Earthworms
Welsh slate 28 x 41 cms £815
Nia Bennett - Mother Earth
Portland stone, David Ipina of the Yurok tribe, California 35 x 31 x 8 cms £1,250
Phil Surey - Quiet Joy
Marble from the base of a fire surround 22 x 25 cms £675
Pip Hall - Wordsworth plaque
Penrhyn slate, inscription from 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' by Wordsworth 25 x 25 x 23 cms £730
Rachel Butler - The Isle of Innisfree
Upcycled plum slate, painted and gilded, W. B. Yeats 35 cms sq. £1,900
Teucer Wilson - All Shall Be Well
Caithness stone, painted letters 17 x 35 x 2.5 cms £4,850