Art Lab November 2025

Art Lab November 2025

Presenting: Jane Walker & Simon Buckley

Saturday 8th November 2025 2-3:30pm with a photowalk afterwards

Everybody Gallery, Everybody Arts, Shaw Lane, Halifax HX3 9ET

All welcome, free

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Jane Walker

I am currently working on a new body of work. The work is still with lines and urban, often city places. I embroider the canvas before sizing and painting. The embroidered stitches are partly descriptive and work with the paint. When there is a lot of paint over the stitches they look like scars.

www.jane-walker.co.uk

Simon Buckley

Not Quite Light emerged whilst walking in Angel Meadow, just off the city centre of Manchester, where 40,000 people are buried beneath the grassed surface. It’s where Marx and Engels did their research into the impoverished lives of the working classes. From the glassy, new CIS building just across the road, I watched a steady glow fall onto the gravestones of St. Michael’s Flags in the park below.

This caused a simple question to form: “If this light could magically bring these souls back to life, what would they make of their city today?”.

There then began an exploration of themes around transition and regeneration during the twilight of dawn and dusk, those times of suspense between night and day, between light and dark, from old to new.

As well as working in urban areas, work has taken Not Quite Light into places such as Macclesfield Forest, Dartmoor and the Scottish Highlands.

https://notquitelight.com/

Art Lab is a peer group for artists and art practitioners to discuss their work, concurrent ideas and critical thinking based in Halifax since January 2019.

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