This is an exhibition by women artists, including Mandy Prowse and Julia Maddison, at this wonderful gallery at Bromley-by-Bow. The buildings reminded me of Delft, perched by a stretch of languid water behind the usual hideous construction-industry-fest of nondescript office buildings for non-existent workers.
Inside there is a lot of intact mill machinery, and the artworks are arranged around the building looking as though they have materialised from the ancient dust and wood. It's the best sort of place to see an exhibition of work like this, because the building adds to what you see, which is a series of artworks that comment on motherhood's bittersweet trajectory. The materials could be sourced from the mill era itself, although the commentary of the artworks is completely contemporary. It's on till Saturday: go if you can.
Gawd bless art and all who sail in her. This could have been rather a drab day, but instead it was a really stimulating one spent finding that the spirit of creativity is undimmed by the hideous reality that swirls around as at the moment.
Inspired, I came back and finished my Kyle track (I think!).
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