Christopher Mc Cambridge
July 03th – July 24th 2009
Private View: Friday 3rd July 6-8pm
the third space is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Christopher Mc Cambridge. Recent fine art practice has increasingly looked outside of the armoury of fine art techniques to employ strategies previously considered to fall into the domain of material culture, processes more traditionally associated with the arts and crafts.
Current debates have centred on the relationship between these practices and their objects as subject to a conventional hierarchy of the visual arts with the fine arts as dominant partner. More recently, however, questions of status are no longer relevant and the understanding of the development of these cultural strains has been seen in terms of parallel development, or convergence, rather than hierarchy.
The rich and deepening relationship of textiles and fine art exemplifies this dynamic and it is within this framework that Christopher Mc Cambridge works his interests reflecting the ideology of the Arts and Crafts Movement as much as it comments on contemporary painting.
“My practice the work is attempting to return the fabric to their origins of aesthetic beauty and statements of wealth, where the fabric was first produced using hand woven or woodblock printed techniques. It is returning a mass-produced, aesthetically conservative design back to an aesthetically desirable commodity.”
Mc Cambridge’s materials are not only brush and paints but also needle and thread the process is important as the work is painstakingly hand stitched forming a conflict with the mass produced fabric that forms the base of the work creating works where the opposing characteristics play off each other to maximum aesthetic effect.
For information and additional images please contact; Hugh Mulholland on 0044 (0) 2890 237757 or hugh@thethirdspacegallery.com
the third space, suite 11&12, Scottish Mutual Building,16 Donegall Square South, Belfast BT1 5JA
Gallery Opening Hours – Monday – Friday 11am – 5pm, Closed 1pm – 2pm, Saturday by Appointment
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