LUCY STORRS & EMMA TAYLOR
15 February - 10 March 2024
Introducing two new artists to the Woolff Gallery, Lucy Storrs and Emma Taylor.
Both working in repurposed materials, these unique artists chime well with the Woolff Gallery spirit. Storrs presents vibrant landscapes which appear from a distance as paintings, but on a closer inspection reveal themselves to be wool, whereas Taylor burrows into the details of nature with her intricate paper sculptures. Created from vintage books, the subject matter is always relevant to the original book.
Please contact us for further images of any of the works shown below, and we hope to see you soon.
LUCY STORRS
Welcome Lucy Storrs to the Woolff gallery. Lucy’s works are intricately connected, like her, to the land.
Growing up on a remote sheep farm in Dartmoor, her love of painting and its gestural capabilities situate her in an incredibly unique position: that of a textured landscapist marrying wool with colour.
Lucy Storrs
LITTLE LARK IN THE SKY
Wool and silk
Grey frame / anti-refective glass
73 x 73cm (framed)
Inspired by these romantic environments and early dreams of becoming a shepherdess, Lucy is as obsessed with paint as she is with wool - the landscapes she conjures up emerge from a desire to express this through needle felting:
“In some ways I should be a painter, but I just can’t let go of wool.” LUCY STORRS
Her works strike a fine balance between relinquishing control of each spool (for wool is notoriously difficult to curb) and intervening as a weaver of movement. As a kinetic collagist activating each barb of this soft and translucent material, these wool landscapes emerge from her hands as if almost animated.
Lucy Storrs
APRIL SHOWERS
Wool and silk
White frame / anti-refective glass
49 x 49cm (framed)
£495
Lucy Storrs
SPELLBOUND BY WINTER
Wool and silk
Grey frame / anti-refective glass
49 x 49cm (framed)
There is an undisputed charm about these landscapes - strikingly emotive yet open to interpretation, Lucy's fields of wool call forth in us something intimately nostalgic, yet entirely contemporary in rendition. They bring up memories of particular places we hold dear, triggering our own connections to this land. Through layers of bright colouring, although incongruent to the natural tones of the country, what is felt draws her, and us, in.
April Showers captures the promise of overcast skies over a moody, verdant ravine, cast here as neon yellow threads on grey-green fuchsia slopes, whilst Winter Majestry evokes the ascending tones of a Vaughan Williams or a Hardy poem, her flock of birds delicately sowed into crisp swathes of periwinkle, yellow, white and grey.
Lucy Storrs
WINTER MAJESTRY
Wool and silk
Grey frame / anti-refective glass
73 x 73cm (framed)
Lucy Storrs
COME FIND SOME WILD
Wool and silk
Grey frame / anti-refective glass
49 x 49cm (framed)
£495
Lucy Storrs
SOFTLY SPOKEN DAY
Wool and silk
Grey frame / anti-refective glass
49 x 49cm (framed)
Lucy Storrs
BLISSFUL STATE
Wool and silk
Grey frame / anti-refective glass
49 x 49cm (framed
£495)
EMMA TAYLOR
One of Woolff’s youngest artists, Emma started making book sculptures out of a wish to combine her interest in academic study with her passion for the creative arts. She found the form of the book as her perfect medium, forging her own style from the two.
Emma Taylor
TEND THE FLOWERS, THE BUTTERFLIES WILL COME
Vintage book, glue, wire
28w x 24d x 12h cms
£650
Repurposing vintage books into sculptures, the subject matter of her sculptures are informed by their narrative. She sources each title from market stalls and antique shops, divining a padded paper form from each. In this way, stories come to life, bursting from their covers into flora, fauna and vessels dressed in their thousands with individually-cut strips of text.
Emma Taylor
FROM DAYS PAST
Vintage book, glue, wire
29w x 28d x 27h cms
Emma Taylor
SWEET NECTAR
Vintage book, glue, wire
19w x 16d x 18h cms
£550
Delicate, intricate, and always conveying a deeper understanding of paper as a material, Emma’s sculptures deliver a beautiful reminder to us all:
“The main theme in my work is the natural world. In order to achieve balance in our increasingly digital society, we need to return to and embrace nature. I particularly aim to highlight this notion by referencing the origin of the paper itself - I regularly transform book pages back into ancient trees.” EMMA TAYLOR
Emma Taylor
CONSTRICTED
Vintage book, glue, wire
19w x 20d x 19h cms
£650
Emma Taylor
PAPER, STEAM & SPEED
Vintage book, glue, wire
26w x 22d x 24h cms
£675