Graduate Exhibits At The Wirksworth Festival
12 September 2011
Examples from Sarah Dunford's exhibition on show at the Wirksworth Festival
A University of Derby graduate has exhibited a sculpture at a popular Derbyshire arts festival.
For three weeks in September the historic market town of Wirksworth is home to an exhibition of great art in some fascinating places. On its opening weekend the whole town becomes a gallery with more than 170 artists and makers showing their work in private homes, historic buildings, gardens, shop windows and churches.
This year, for the first time, Wirksworth Festival selected a University of Derby Creative and Expressive Therapies BA (Hons) graduate's work to be included in the Festival's Art and Architecture Trail.
Sarah Dunford's sculptural piece entitled 'Nothing Stays Buried' was displayed in Peak House Practice's therapy room in Wirksworth throughout the opening weekend.
Sarah's work focuses on 'derelict buildings and found objects, the stories held within them, and giving them the space to be seen, heard and hopefully empathised with'. To find out more on Sarah's work visit her website: www.faultydroneunplugged.co.uk.
Peak House Practice is a multidisciplinary complementary therapy and meditation centre in Wirksworth, specialising in mental health and wellbeing. Alex Greenbank, Practice Manager, expressed a hope to: "Raise awareness of the potential use of the creative arts as part of the therapeutic healing process".
Wirksworth Festival is actively engaged in developing an increasing focus on new, young and emerging artists. In recent years, a graduate showcase has been successfully established and the Festival is looking forward to working even more closely with regional universities in the future.
Wirksworth Festival offers inspirational film, sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, found object, and other unclassifiable, hybrid artforms by leading UK and international artists exhibiting over three weekends. For information about Wirksworth Festival and the Art & Architecture Trail - www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk
