Friday 1 March – Sun 24 March
Open Friday to Sunday, 12:00-16:00

We are delighted to have the brilliant stitch and embroidery artist Sally Hewett exhibiting here in March.

From Sally Hewett: “My practice centres around ideas of beauty and ugliness and the conventions which determine our definition of each. I love bodies. And it is not the conventionally beautiful bodies that take my eye, it is bodies which show their history, that have been altered by their experiences, that are decorated with bruises, scars, spots, stretch marks, freckles, pigmentation, veins. Bodies that have the marks of life on them. But also bodies which have been deliberately altered and decorated – by man rather than by life – scarification, tattoos, plastic surgery, fillers, etc. Are some characteristics of bodies inherently beautiful, or ugly, or disgusting? Or because we see everything through the veil of culture, fashion and convention is it almost impossible for us to see bodies objectively?”

To see more of Sally’s work, visit her website.

This exhibition is part of Every Body, Fourth Wall Folkestone’s programme of creative events and gatherings which centre around these important topics: Eating Disorder Awareness Week, International Women’s Day and Endometriosis Awareness Month.