Material Language | Language Material
Material Language / Language Material
Claire Baily, Harriet Carter, Hannah Hughes, Angus Pryor, John Summers
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Standpoint and the University of Gloucestershire presented Material Language / Language Material, a group exhibition featuring artists associated with the University.
The exhibition explored the emergence of knowledge when working with varied materials and methods.
Knowledge developed through making emerges from working with material, a dialogue that extends to encountering the finished work. Artworks become a site of thinking, raising questions about what they do and how they are experienced.
Curated by Harriet Carter, the works reflected research within the University of Gloucestershire’s Fine Art programme as well as relationships with artists beyond the institution.
John Summers’ collages use found imagery layered with oil, forming complex spatial environments. His sculptures similarly expose the process of making, with materials competing and interacting across surfaces.
Angus Pryor combines paint and objects, bringing disparate elements into dialogue. The canvas becomes a stage where materials interact, overlap, and reshape one another.
Claire Baily’s sculptures explore material weight and transformation, combining organic and constructed elements into forms that suggest both fragility and density.
Hannah Hughes’ ceramic works create spatial relationships through internal and external forms, revealing movement and structure within material processes.
Harriet Carter’s paintings build layered surfaces where marks accumulate, dissolve, and reform, creating fields of shifting visual activity.
At the University of Gloucestershire, the studio remains central to Fine Art practice, fostering material exploration through a practice based approach.
The curator thanks the University of Gloucestershire for funding this project.
