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Mercer North Gallery current exhibition

In the North Gallery now

Anne Thalheim: Encasement

19 January to 30 June

Anne Thalheim makes objects of beauty from industrial materials, exquisitely woven together using craft and dress-making techniques, with imagery taken from literature and historic costume.

Thalheim’s work is defined by the extraordinary combination of her imagery and the manipulation of her plastic materials.

Pieces of historic feminine costume often appear, such as bonnets, corsets and purses made out of hair rollers, cable ties and insect mesh.

Thalheim’s art has many different layers of meaning. Many thoughts, objects and ideas work their way through into her art.

Certain themes are never very far away. Canadian by birth, half German by blood and now naturalized British citizen living in rural North Yorkshire, Thalheim’s art not only reflects her desire to make significant and beautiful objects, but also to create stories that can fill the gaps in her own personal history.