Offshore – Feren’s Art Gallery and Hull Maritime Museum
Apr 21st – Aug 28th 2017
Avoiding Green channels the medium of knitting and a hitherto little known history of a small, but global, army of knitters, both at sea and onshore. The work teases out a strong kinship between these largely overlooked cogs in the global economy, and evokes the sea from their wildly different perspectives. Avoiding Green focuses particularly on the Gansey, as a specialized working garment worn by seafarers from around the coastal towns of England, Scotland and Holland.
Artists in Offshore: John Akomfrah, Jonathan Baldock, Bik Van Der Pol, Adam Chodzko, Phil Coy, Tacita Dean, Alexander Duncan, Tania Kovats, Lawrence Lek, Rob Mackay, David Malone, Mariele Neudecker, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Martin Parr, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Emily Richardson, Shimabuku, Zineb Sedira, John Smith, Badgers of Bohemia, Kasia Molga, John Wedgwood-Clarke and, Ian J Brown and new essay by author China Miéville.
Avoiding Green was commissioned by Invisible Dust