Tour
of joint exhibition, Drawing Threads, with Jacqueline
Morreau. Tour: Babylon Gallery, Ely, (spring); The
Fashion Space Gallery at the London College of Fashion
(summer); and The Lewes Textile Museum, Blackburn
(January 2005). A catalogue accompanied the exhibition
with an essay by Rachel Barnes.
“Sarah Cawkwell’s
strongly linear, introspective studies of women in the
throes of daily domestic chores belong to a long tradition
in art of transforming lengths of cloth into visual poetry.
RB essay Concerning a Woman's Viewpoint in catalogue
to accompany the exhibition Drawing Threads”
Solo exhibition: Drawings and
Reliefs, Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford. An essay
by Gen Doy entitled "Drapery Studies" was
printed to accompany the exhibition. Review by Helen
Peacocke, "Sarah Cawkwell: Christ Church Picture
Gallery", The Oxford Times Weekend, May 4.
"From beginning to end" 2000, 84x122cm
"Like drapery itself,
her works function as both revelation and concealment.
View her works carefully and you will experience both."
GD essay Drapery Studies printed to accompany exhibition
at Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, 2001
Solo exhibition: Large Drawings and
Reliefs, Fermoy Gallery, King's Lynn. A booklet of selected
work from 1985 to 1998, with an introduction by Jenny
Joseph and the artist in conversation with Hilda Bernstein,
was published to accompany the exhibition.
"The pulling out of
the outline from a flat into 2 1/2 dimensions (the reverse
of the process in her drawing where she gave the figure
body by the perspective into its fabric) makes them even
more alert with movement, real flesh and blood, and yet
at the same time something about their simplicity and
the repetition gives them almost an emblematic air."
JJ, essay in Selected work 1985-1998 catalogue for the
exhibition at King's Lynn 1998.
Group exhibition: Marking Presence,
Artsway, Sway.
Group exhibition: Meeting in Art 1, Istanbul, Turkey.
Group exhibition: Unfolding, St George's Hospital, London.
Public Collection: Shirtshape No 2, 1996, purchased
by Wolfson College, Oxford.
Solo exhibition: Large
Charcoal Images, The King of Hearts, Norwich. Review by
Anna Green, "More to be seen than first meets the
eye" Eastern Daily Press, June.
"Cutting the thread"
1992, 150x122cm
".... The
more you look, however, the less restful these scenes
of domestica prove themselves to be [rather they are]
both softly humdrum and tensely violent. There is a pent
energy in simple but taut gestures... The unusual angles
and view points from which the larger-than-life figures
are seized, and cropped, force them - like it or not -
upon you."
Solo
exhibition: Drawn Threads, New Hall, Cambridge.
Solo exhibition: Large Charcoal Works, Standpoint Gallery,
Hoxton, London. Interview with Anna McNamee on Women's
Hour, October.
Solo exhibition: Images in Charcoal, Stansell Gallery,
Taunton.
Group exhibition: Threadlines, Harriet Green Gallery,
Soho, London. Curated by Sarah Cawkwell. Review by Libby
Anson, "Weaving Metaphorical Narratives", Women's
Art Magazine, July/August.
Opening of
Collection of Contemporary Women's Art, New Hall, Cambridge.
Large plait no 1, 1992, included. A catalogue Women Artists
at New Hall of this permanent collection includes an introduction
by Marina Warner. Review by Clare Rendell "A gentle
kick up the macho rump - the beneficial effects of a new
collection of women's art", The Spectator, 24 October.
