{"product_id":"group-show-curated-by-charlie-caldecott","title":"OCTOBER\/NOVEMBER | CURATED GROUP SHOW | The Blind Leading the Seers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOCTOBER\/NOVEMBER | GROUP SHOW | The Blind Leading the Seers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA group exhibition curated by Charlie Caldicott\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing Sarah Pager, Louisa Mahoney, Jo Casling, Dougle Kirkland and Milo Kester\u003cbr\u003e6 October - 8November\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Blind Leading the Seers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together five artists whose work responds to a poem written by curator Charlie Caldicott.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe exhibition began with a story about an abstract painter in Dorset who worked outdoors at night, using black paint, straw and the surrounding landscape, allowing touch, instinct and the physical act of making to guide the work rather than sight alone. This approach inspired Caldicott’s poem, which imagines “the blind” leading “the seers” across a dark moor, where familiar ways of seeing and understanding begin to dissolve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRather than illustrating the poem literally, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSarah Pager, Louisa Mahoney, Jo Casling, Dougle Kirkland and Milo Kester\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e each interpret its ideas through their own distinctive practice. Together, their works explore darkness, landscape, material, instinct and the limits of perception.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe exhibition asks what might emerge when knowledge and certainty are set aside. Can we encounter a landscape through memory, movement, texture or imagination? Can losing sight of the familiar allow us to see differently?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Blind Leading the Seers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e invites audiences into a shifting, sensory landscape where the unknown becomes a creative space—and where those assumed to be without sight may ultimately be the ones who lead the way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stoneleigh Arms Arts Space | Leamington ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56860859072898,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0749\/5991\/3258\/files\/Copy_of_WORKSHOP_GRAPHIC_8559114d-4bdc-456f-901a-1a72b06b5bca.png?v=1787246798","url":"https:\/\/stoneleigharms.com\/products\/group-show-curated-by-charlie-caldecott","provider":"Stoneleigh Arms Arts Space | Leamington ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}