Exhibition of weaving

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32461, 23 November 1970, Page 5

Exhibition of weaving

An exhibition by the Christchurch weaver, Rosemary Fenton, opened on Friday at the Several Arts Gallery, Colombo Street, with an attendance of about 306 persons. The exhibition is of woven hangings, rugs, clothes, furnishings, and furniture. Miss Fenton is showing 26 items, ranging from a cushion to a set of chairs, and several pieces of “wall sculpture.” The exhibition will run until December 3. b

plastic reminders of pollution. The rather bland forms in steel and bronze by Rosemary Johnson, of Dunedin, may be best seen in isolation, but in the confines of this exhibition they make little impact. Nola Barron, Helen Mason, Warren Tippitt and Juliet live up to their established reputations in the pottery field. Of the 20 pieces of weaving exhibited, Kay Twiss’s two woven wall hangings with ceramic inlays appeal as rich decoration. Ida Lough has extended greatly the scale and scope of her tapestries in the most difficult and exacting branch of weaving. Some fine examples of simple modem jewellery by Kobi Bosshard and Guenter Taemmler complete the exhibition, which will remain open until November 29. -G.T.M. Memoir to musician.—The Christchurch Civic Music Council is investigating the publishing of a memoir to Mr Ernest Empson. The memoir, on both Mr Empson and his methods of teaching, would be prepared by his former pupils. Mr Empson was a vice-president of the council when he died.