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Privet


Alice Chandler


24 April - 23 May 2021



Installation view of Privet by Alice Chandler. A red brick terraced house and front yard. Two sculptures sit on a patterned cement floor. One is a vertical metal frame with a quilt suspended from it. The other is a low mosaic plinth. Photo by Jules Lister

Threshold launched on 24 April 2021 with Privet, an exhibition of new work by Alice Chandler that explores connections between plants and textiles, sculpture and language. 

In The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes reminds us of the etymology of the word ‘text’ and its connection to textile and texture, weaving and binding. Inspired by Barthes etymological process in Privet, Chandler investigates the common privet hedge, its myths, histories and aesthetic qualities, to create new sculptural works.

Her ongoing research into this plant has generated a number of sculptural possibilities exploring mazes, mosaics, patchwork, and the glass bottle colours of foliage. Chandler has produced two new outdoor sculptures for Threshold: Variegated, 2021 and Patchwork Maze, 2021, as well as a new edition and publication for Threshold Editions.

Alice Chandler (b. Leeds) is an artist living and working in Leeds. Chandler’s practice is informed by the intersection between art, craft and design. She creates sculptural objects and site-specific, installations that build narrative and interrogate our relationship with the domestic, functional and wearable. Utilising various craft processes, she makes objects that, dependent on display and context, can be at once sculptural, functional, or decorative.

Chandler graduated from Edinburgh College of Art BA Sculpture in 2015, and is currently working towards an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at University of Leeds. Chandler was selected for the Tetley Associate Artist’s Programme 2018/19 and YSI Sculpture Network in 2020. Recent exhibitions include: Sitting Show, East Bristol Contemporary (2019); Encountering Objects, Encountering Place, Assembly House, Leeds (2018); Mantel, Copperfield Gallery, London (2018); Lick and a Promise, The Trophy Room, Royal Standard Liverpool (2017); and General Studies, Outpost, Norwich (2016).

Privet is curated by Julia McKinlay.

Booking is not currently necessary to visit the exhibition. If you would like to make an appointment, please get in touch through thresholdsculpture@gmail.com. See our accessibility page for more information about visiting. 

*One part of the exhibition is made of textile and will not be exhibited in heavy rain.

List of Works:

Patchwork Maze
2021
160 x 102 x 60cm
Powder coated steel, cotton

Variegated
2021
244 x 60.5 x 10cm
Wood, gloss paint, ceramic tiles, grouting, glass bottles


Exhibition Documentation:

Exhibition signage on a brick wall 'Patchwork Maze', 2021. A patterned quilt in multiple shades of green is suspended from a black metal frame. Detail of 'Patchwork Maze', tabs attached to the quilt wrap around the frame. Detail of the quilted green squares that make up 'Patchwork Maze'. The quilt billowing in the wind. The reverse side of 'Patchwork Maze' detailing the stiching on a plain green background. 'Patchwork Maze' moving in the wind. Detail of the reverse side of 'Patchwork Maze' showing white linear stitching on a green background. 'Variegated', 2021. A low, rectangular plinth painted green is topped with a mosaic pattern including flattened glass bottles. 'Variegated', 2021. A low, rectangular plinth, which is painted green is topped with a mosiac pattern and flattened glass bottles. View of Privet from the street. Two sculpture sit in a front yard in front of a terraced house. 'Patchwork Maze' and 'Variegated' in front of a terraced house. Detail of the multicoloured mosaic and two flat glass bottles in 'Variegated' View of Privet from the road showing several terraced houses and a cobbled street. Detail of the mosaic tiling on 'Variegated' Detail of 'Patchwork Maze' folding over in a breeze showing both the front and back of the quilt.
Photographs by Jules Lister

Alice Chandler’s research images for Privet:

A photograph of the garden at Threshold which is in front of a red brick house. A digital drawing is overlaid depicting a green mottled plinth and a vertical stand with blue and grey checked material suspended from it. A hand holding a piece of mosaic made from multicoloured irregular tiles. A historic diagram of a hedge maze. A collage of pictures of privet hedge in a checkerboard pattern with text.
Images courtesy of Alice Chandler
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