Friday 9th - Sunday 18th February
The Knot Age is a collaborative exhibition between Alice Kasahara Macrae and Freddie Wise. The exhibition is an installation of collaboratively made sculptures and drawings exploring their shared interest in the language of knots. Accompanying the exhibition will be a collection of texts from friends and knot practitioners reflecting on their relationship to knotting.
Knots are an information storage device. They can be memories or spells bound in knotted cord, strings tied with overhand knots to record tax and collect census data, or the nodes in the computer universe. Between knots there is always a connecting strand. The connecting strands are alive with information reoccurring continuously, but the knot itself is where it is kept and stored.
The title of the the show, ‘The Knot Age’, proposes knots as a foundational material in place of stone or bronze - reframing not the heavy building materials or indeed the vessel (as by K. le Guin in The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction), but seeing the heart of the system creating power as knots and their craft details. Alongside this, the exhibition continues to explore the network of knots: from weavings, motorway systems, DNA strands and knotted headphone wires. It’s hard to not admire knots especially at the centre of a tea ceremony or the plaits on a horse’s mane.
Opening times:
Exhibition opening: Friday 9th February 6pm
Fridays and Saturdays 10am-3pm
By appointment outside of opening hours.
*For appointments call/message - 07917384865 or via Instagram @alicekasaharamacrae @freddiefreddiewise