BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3063@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180124T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180124T183000 DTSTAMP:20180102T144747Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/warrington-museum-art-gallery-el len-sampson-exhibition-tour-artist-talk-worn/ SUMMARY:Warrington Museum & Art Gallery: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery: E llen Sampson Exhibition Tour and Artist Talk: Worn DESCRIPTION:Worn: footwear\, attachment and affective experience\nCVAN Tour and Artists’ talk/ Press Day: 24 th January 2018 3-6.30pm\nExhibition r uns: 29 September 2017 – 27 January 2018\nMonday-Friday 10am-4.30pm: Sat urday 10am-4pm.\nWarrington Museum &\; Art Gallery: Museum Street\, War rington\, WA1 1JB\n\nEllen Sampson is delighted to invite you to a Guided Tour and Artists’ Talk about her exhibition\, Worn: Footwear\, Attachmen t and Affective Experience at Warrington Museum and Gallery.\n\nJoin us fo r guided tour of exhibitions by artists Holly Rowan Hesson and Ellen Samps on at Warrington Museum &\; Art Gallery in association with CVAN and Wa rrington Contemporary Arts Festival.\n\nShoes are evocative objects\, load ed with meanings and memories\; from magical shoes in fairy-tales to aband oned and empty shoes resonant with loss. This exhibition explores our rela tionship with and attachment to shoes. Focusing upon the shoe as an everyd ay object\, it explores how garments and people may become entwined. Throu gh use and wear shoes become a record of the wearer’s lived experience\, the paths they have walked\, the journeys they have taken\, the shoe as a vessel for memory.\n\nUsing film\, photography and installation\, these w orks explore the ways that attachment to footwear is located in our intima te and tactile relationship to it\; attachment created through touch and w ear. The manifestations of this attachment are apparent in the ways that a shoe changes: the creases\, folds and scuffs\, which are the inevitable o utcomes of use. Gesture is preserved within the shoe – even when our bod ies are gone traces of motion remain. These marks form a web\, a map of ex perience. The worn shoe is a repository of experience\, a container of tra ce.\n\nEllen Sampson\n\nEllen Sampson is an artist\, curator and writer wh ose work explores the relationships between bodily experience\, memory and clothing. Using film\, installation and sculpture she addresses the manne r in which material objects can become records of lived experience and how the traces of these experiences can be read or understood by the viewer. In exploring the resonance of worn and used artefacts\, Sampson seeks to u ncover how attachment to material artefacts is produced and maintained.\n\ nFascinated by the magical shoes in fairy-tales as a child\, Sampson compl eted a degree in anthropology before training as a shoemaker\, learning to make shoes at the famous Cordwainers College in London. After several yea rs of running her own company and working in fashion her work developed a more conceptual angle and she returned to Cordwainers to undertake an MA. Her acclaimed Masters project Absences explored empty footwear as a symbol of absence\, loss and grief. Sampson recently completed a PhD exploring o ur attachment to footwear at Royal College of Art\, London. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/01/ellen-sampson-warrington.jpg LOCATION:Warrington Museum & Art Gallery\, Bold Street\, Warrington\, WA1 1 DR\, Warrington\, United Kingdom GEO:53.38857;-2.596091 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bold Street\, Warrington\, WA1 1DR\, Warrington\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Warringto n Museum & Art Gallery:geo:53.38857,-2.596091 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR