6 Woman Alliance: Previous Exhibitions

Nostalgia Paradox

5 members of 6WA recently took part in Nostalgia Paradox group exhbition at Beach Creative 7^th October to Thursday 20^th October 2022 an exhbition that reflected on the duality, or multiplicity of nostalgia.

Shadows of the Past by Jenny Fairweather

Memories are stitched into our lives in random ways. Prompts come from many sources, photos, films, and experiences. Having briefly lived in Germany, Heimat (the film trilogy) evokes nostalgia for people, a lost rural way of life, for leaving home and for a changed and changing world. I feel this nostalgia to be universal.

Sherd Passion by Joan Hobson

Earlier this year, I posted a photograph of sherds I had found at Long Rock onto Pottery Sherds UK Facebook group. This is what happened.

These are the exact words written online, kindly voiced by Christy, Sarah, and Tim Hinchcliffe.

Please do not listen if you are easily offended.

Please do 'Have Your say' in the space provided or add post it notes to the wall Thank You.

Pandoradoxical I & II by Karen Simpson

Hoarded and locked away in the deep recesses of drawers, cupboards, and minds, the relics of our and our ancestors, ‘treasures’, passed on for safe keeping, unearthed they may create a warm fuzzy nostalgic feeling, or like Pandora’s Box they may unleash a maelstrom of unresolved memories and issues…

Misremebered II Jenny Kalin

The Lost Doll by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) by Veronica Tonge

We assume the poem is superficially about a Victorian child mislaying her much loved, expensive, pretty doll, whilst playing in a wild, outside environment out of parental control. She searches for her precious doll, distressed and tearful, for a whole week, without success.

Sometime later, playing on the same heath, she comes across her doll again. Others notice the doll is totally ruined - the painted features washed off by the rain, arms trodden off by cows and the hair straight. Interestingly, the child believes nothing has changed and the doll is still as pretty as she was. Her love resumes.

The poem explores the paradox that out adult psychologies an uncritically recall our past histories and prevent us dealing with uncomfortable truths.

House-Bound 2021

After two years of planning and postponements due to the Covid19 Pandemic, House-Bound finally took place 29th October - 11th November at Beach Creative in Herne Bay. Originally billed as a show featuring the artists’ obsessions with house and home, which it certainly delivered on, it also reflected a very difficult 18 months of disruption of normal life, lockdowns, isolation, actually contracting Covid and widespread fear of infection. A full review can be read on our reviews page.