HENSHAWS Arts and Crafts Centre in Knaresborough has a new exhibition showing at the Bond End-based centre.
Putting sleeplessness in the frame, ‘Sleeping Partner’, a mixed media project by Bradford artist Shaeron Caton-Rose is about insomnia and is showing at the Café Gallery, Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre until Sunday, October 26.
Part of Henshaws York
shire, Society for Blind People, the Centre runs workshops in nine arts and crafts for more than 90 visually-impaired service-users, often displaying work produced on-site.
Centre Manager, Phill Hopkins said: “The Centre, which acts as a hub for the whole community, is a safe and stimulating environment for visually-impaired artists to create their work.
“It’s very exciting to be able to host such an exciting and thought-provoking exhibition by one of the north’s foremost mixed media artists.
“We hope people from Harrogate and beyond will take advantage of the free admission and enjoy the show.”
The inspiration for Sleeping Partner, the latest of several exhibitions by visiting artists, stemmed from Shaeron’s experiences of living with an insomniac.
She explained: “The project is a very personal view of how it feels to live with an apparently endless and unrecognised disability; one which is not only debilitating to the sufferer but which costs their partner and family in unnoticed but profound ways.
“The term ‘sleeping partner’ could be equally used to describe the person who can sleep and the insomniac whose condition does not allow them to fully contribute to home life.”
Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre is open daily from 9am-4pm. Admission is free.
