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Don’t Nobody Know My Troubles With God – Helen Hayward & Pauline Wood

OPEN 15th March 6-9pm
Then open 16th March – 14th April Thursday-Sunday 12-4pm or by appointment. ALL WELCOME

A collaboration of works by Helen Hayward and Pauline Wood.

The starting point for this collaboration was the description of a vision experienced by Christian mystic Jacob Böhme (1575-1624). He stared at a beam of sunlight hitting a pewter bowl and in that moment the structure of the universe was revealed to him. We like the sound of mystics having visions and although we don’t know what that means it moved us to make things. The vision of Jacob having the vision opened up a reactive space of making. What did he see – what do we think?

We are not gods but we make things within the universe. We push the structure around and hold it in our hands. Impressing and illuminating. Manipulation. When Neil Annett quoted Clement Greenberg in the essay ‘Why do artists make prints?’ for The Kiss or Poison Boyfriend or Jesus’ Blood (with some notes on touch) 2017, it revealed something about making work ‘on its own terms’ and artists wanting to imitate God. To wrestle with making might be a bit like wrestling with God.

Don’t Nobody Know My Troubles With God – is a substitution of ‘but’ for ‘with’ – a mishearing of the title of Moby’s ‘Natural Blues’ from 1999. ‘but’ and the ‘with’ could be said to be the two positions from which our making was approached.

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