PREVIEW FRIDAY 4 APRIL 4.30 - 8PM
Burwash Art
Burwash Manor
New Road
Barton
Cambs CB23 7EY
SHOW OPEN APRIL 4 - 30 2014
Daily 11-5pm
The installation, The Days are Numbered, is a collaboration between
Julia Ball and Elspeth Owen. It is inspired by the daily exchange of
postcards that has been going on between them for many years and by
the particular space of Burwash Art Gallery.
"We started writing the postcards in July 2004 after seeing together
in Edinburgh an exhibition of small works by Paul Klee. We have been
'numbering the days' ever since; by the opening of the exhibition
three thousand, five hundred and fifty days will have passed.
We always write first thing, usually from bed, we celebrate the
magical technology of the postal service and we protect each other
through this simple ritual. Although we work very differently - in paint
and collage and clay - we trust that the space is held together by the
pulsing of the postcards - and the early morning light."
