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Persephone and Demeter, a mother and daughter collaboration by Jan and Tracky Crombie
Main Gallery
Anteros Arts Foundation
Joint exhibition
'Persephone and Demeter, a mother and daughter collaboration'
Date
29th April - 11th May
Open view 3rd Mayl 1-3pm
The works in this show have been created both collaboratively and individually by mother and daughter Jan and Tracky Crombie. Choosing to respond to the Greek myth of Persephone, and her mother Demeter, they have found themes that are relevant to them both. Exploring what it means to their relationship as mother and daughter that they both have an artistic practice they have also been reflecting on the influence of their European heritage.
Revisiting the creative play that happens naturally in childhood, part of the project has been to develop a visual language that could include both of their ways of working. Jan Crombie’s practice includes paintings and ceramic sculpture and is based in Norwich. Tracky Crombie has a broad-based practice which includes surface pattern design and printmaking and lives and works in London.
Jan Crombie was born in an artists' commune, spent much of her childhood in Vienna, and now lives and works in Norwich UK. She has been a lecturer in Fine Art Painting at Oxford Brookes University. After studying for a BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College she completed a postgraduate degree at Oxford University. Her work has been the subject of solo shows and group shows both in the UK and Europe and her work is held in the New Hall collection of Women’s Art.
Themes in her work around identity, motherhood, migration, and imaginary post-human societies are given a face, a story and a context.
Tracky Crombie is a surface pattern designer and printmaker, her work draws together issues around access, control, bodies and power with ecological ideals. She creates projects rooted in communities, in ecology, sustainability, queerness and patterns. Her pattern work combines illustration and abstract prints to create contemporary unique pieces for a multitude of surface options. She draws on her European heritage taking inspiration from Hungarian folk art. Tracky lives and works in London after studying a BA in performance art at Goldsmiths.
