Hope Emerging
Hope Emerging is about the despair I feel at different cultures and religions suffering in conflict. It drives me to convey important messages of empathy, unity and hope emerging from the pain.
The coloured yarns provide a metaphor to show the transformation from the blood spilt and pain of suffering through graduated tones to ivory conveying hope. I use knotting expressing tension, wrapped bundles conveying unity, cages suggesting protection and bud shapes expressing hope.
Unravelling, Tara KennedyBlood coloured yarn wrapped knots of pain unravel and drape into emerging ceramic ivory buds of hope
Trauma, Tara KennedyMade as a response to the writing of Lynn Hamilton this piece was specially created for the BEYOND TRAUMA exhibition at South Hill Park, Bracknell. Lynn writes about PTSD, communicating the impact of trauma on masculinity and the human mind, using stereotypes like the broken hero. Inspired by her story THAT WAS YESTERDAY, this piece symbolizes the cycle of repetitive traumatic emotions felt by PTSD sufferers.
Arise, Tara KennedyBlood coloured yarn and wire wrapped lengths entwined around each other, rise up to ceramic ivory buds of hope
Empathy, Beyton ErkmanA tension ball of blood coloured wrapped lengths, knotted and pierced with nails sits inside an ivory cage and a cascade of ivory wrapped lengths. Materials: mixed yarns, mixed fabrics, wire, nails, acrylic paint, polystyrene ball, pva glue w150-200cm x h100cm
Becoming, Tara KennedyA swathe of ivory wrapped lengths with hope buds emerge from a tension ball of blood coloured wrapped lengths, knotted nd pierced with nails. Materials: mixed yarns, mixed fabrics, wire, nails, acrylic paint, polystyrene ball, pva glue w30cm x d40cm x h30-50cm
Harmony 2, Tara KennedyA cluster of blood coloured knotted wrapped lengths transform into a cocoon of looping ivory wrapped lengths and hope buds. This piece was designed and made for St.Marys Church in Purley-on-Thames, Berkshire and was on display along with Harmony 1 in Nov/Dec 2017 coinciding with Remembrance Day as a memorial to all who suffered. Materials: mixed yarns, mixed fabrics, wire, pva glue w55cm x d 45cm x h 20cm
Harmony 1, Tara KennedyBlood coloured Yarn wrapped lengths knotted and bound together in bundles graduating into ivory hope buds. This piece was designed and made for St.Marys Church in Purley-on-Thames, Berkshire and was on display along with Harmony 2 in Nov/Dec 2017 coinciding with Remembrance Day as a memorial to all who suffered. Materials: mixed yarns, mixed fabrics, wire, pva glue h130cm x w30cm
Unity, Tara KennedyBundles of wrapped yarn lengths tied together in unity. Materials: mixed yarns, mixed fabric, wire, pva 65cm x 30cm
Turmoil, Tara KennedyA cascade of Ivory wrapped lengths emerge from Knots of blood red. Materials: mixed yarn, mixed fabric, wire, nails, pva w35cm x d 25cm x h60cm
Hope Emerging, Tara KennedyHanging knitted strips transform from blood coloured knots to a cascade of ivory shibori. Materials: mixed yarns, mixed fabrics, wire, wool tops, pva, metal ring 250cm x 150cm
Awakening Belief, Beyton ErkmanHand dyed machine knitted lengths knotted and shibori felted. Materials: felting wool, pva, acrylic paint, nail-varnish 140cm x 28cm
Protect, Tara KennedyTension balls of blood coloured yarn wrapped lengths, knotted and pierced with nails sit inside ivory yarn wrapped cages. Materials: mixed yarns, mixed fabric strips, wire, polystyrene balls, nails, acrylic paint, pva 120cm x 25cm