DINNER SERVICE
#DinnerService by Tim Parry-Williams is the latest major iteration in a series of works exercising the technique of damask, typically employed in linen napery, to explore object-based motif towards a more culturally critical expression.
Responding to the brief of #PlantCommunitas the project takes the metaphor of the table (and table cloth) as a place of gathering, and ‘weaves-in’ the associated daily tableware of an imagined group of individuals, brought together in the act of feasting.
#DinnerService is a nod to the many people, of all walks of life, who preserved and perpetuated over many generations, the knowledge needed to raise and convert flax fibre to linen thread, woven cloth and textile goods.
Building on core values in utilitarian cloth #DinnerService combines the nature and aesthetics of the traditional linen cupboard with subjects and narratives of wider culture and society.
Importantly, the unbleached linen of the warp and weft is surviving stock from the last spun at #Andrews (Comber’s) Mill, Newtownards before closure in 1997.
As such, through its expression of community and co-creation, the work also marks a coming home of materiality, and a recalling and championing of full ‘top-down’ regional production of linen.
Through this synchronic methodology, heritage and tradition, analogue and digital, co-exist - literally and metaphorically - at the same table.
The work seeks to respond directly to the histories, continuances and potential futures of the Northern Ireland linen industry.
#DinnerService is presented through #PlantCommunitasLinum curated by @patricia_brien @rspacegallerylisburn 2 -30 September 2023 as part of the @linenaliveni #LinenBiennale
Text and images courtesy of Tim Parry-Williams
Find out more:
www.rspacelisburn.com/plant-communitas-linum-exhibition
Responding to the brief of #PlantCommunitas the project takes the metaphor of the table (and table cloth) as a place of gathering, and ‘weaves-in’ the associated daily tableware of an imagined group of individuals, brought together in the act of feasting.
#DinnerService is a nod to the many people, of all walks of life, who preserved and perpetuated over many generations, the knowledge needed to raise and convert flax fibre to linen thread, woven cloth and textile goods.
Building on core values in utilitarian cloth #DinnerService combines the nature and aesthetics of the traditional linen cupboard with subjects and narratives of wider culture and society.
Importantly, the unbleached linen of the warp and weft is surviving stock from the last spun at #Andrews (Comber’s) Mill, Newtownards before closure in 1997.
As such, through its expression of community and co-creation, the work also marks a coming home of materiality, and a recalling and championing of full ‘top-down’ regional production of linen.
Through this synchronic methodology, heritage and tradition, analogue and digital, co-exist - literally and metaphorically - at the same table.
The work seeks to respond directly to the histories, continuances and potential futures of the Northern Ireland linen industry.
#DinnerService is presented through #PlantCommunitasLinum curated by @patricia_brien @rspacegallerylisburn 2 -30 September 2023 as part of the @linenaliveni #LinenBiennale
Text and images courtesy of Tim Parry-Williams
Find out more:
www.rspacelisburn.com/plant-communitas-linum-exhibition