Name: Elinor Rowlands - The Magician - Art Exhibition
Start: 2021-11-7T00-00-00-00
End: 2022-1-9T23-23-59-00
Location: the cornerHOUSE

07novallday09janElinor Rowlands - The Magician - Art Exhibition(All Day) Event Type :Art,Exhibition

Event Details

Elinor Rowlands is a U.K based multi-disciplinary performance maker and visual artist. Her work is founded on the contemporary interplay of sensory art-making involving repetitive rhythmic gestures that are both ritualistic and seeing, involving her body as both instrument and tool, engaging with its intrinsic drum.

A writer, performer, sound artist and painter, Elinor studied drawing and printing with Inuit Canadian artist Heather Carroll, and painting with the late Kamen Popov of Gallery 88 Luxembourg. At university, she studied performance and film (BA Honours), then a Post Graduate Diploma in Painting, and finally, a Masters in Art Psychotherapy. She creates paintings for a range of places from theatres to intimate exhibition spaces and she offers private commissions.

Elinor combines arts to tell stories through the prism of ritual and magic. Moved by children’s stories, folklore and women’s histories, every piece has its own language and identity, each tells a different story. Layered textures around repeated images from nature offers her work a phantasmagorical feel, overwhelming and immersive, secretive, and yet particularly revealing.

Her exhibition, “The Magician” is based on the Jungian archetype of the creator of worlds bearing knowledge of the ancient and contemporary. The jewelled colours Elinor uses in her art lend a transformative, reflective, and contemplative lens into the world of this archetype.

Time

November 7 (Sunday) - January 9 (Sunday)

Location

the cornerHOUSE

116 Douglas Road Surbiton Surrey KT6 7SB

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Statement from the Douglas Centre Trust

The unprecedented events following the spread of the virus have left us struggling to keep up with what is possible at the cornerHOUSE. Most of our users have already cancelled activities for the foreseeable future.

As a volunteer-run activity, at the best of times we are dependent on people coming forward to make the place happen. Many of those volunteers fall into the “elderly” classification and some are also scheduled as “vulnerable”. Correctly they are listening to government advice to self-isolate.
Government advice is also for us all to avoid “unnecessary social gatherings”; which may describe just about everything that goes on at the cornerHOUSE ( although we would argue that “art” and “community” are far from being unnecessary.).
So we have taken the difficult decision to close the building for the present. All planned and booked events and activities are cancelled. The Annual General Meeting will still formally take place on April 3rd, although consultations will only be in advance in e-correspondence .

We will keep a shadow diary to preserve timeslots already booked, although this does not mean that those events will necessarily go on when things allow the centre to be re-opened. We are taking no new reservations for the present.
As far as possible we will be keeping alert to changes in the government’s guidance, and also for opportunities identified by existing partners, which may mean that the building can be re-opened for some uses. Currently we have no idea when that might be. We are also looking at ideas which may keep the cornerHOUSE ethos alive on-line
We recognise absolutely the important role that the cornerHOUSE plays in the lives of so many in our community, and the potential that it has to be so in the lives of many more. As soon as we can we aim to get back to offering that role. For now, though, we ask your patience and understanding.

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The trustees of the Douglas Centre Trust operating the cornerHOUSE community arts centre
March 2020

Live events at The cornerHOUSE

The cornerHOUSE is back up and running with full programming including:
live music, poetry reading and workshops, exciting drama, writing workshops, comedy galore, film club, talks. All with just a hint of social distancing

cH online

cH online continues to host a selection of material from across all of the art forms represented at the cornerHOUSE. Go to the cH online pages to find out more.

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