“the word dropped into her mind like a pebble thrown into a pond”

- Sylvia Townsend-Warner

the castle and the goat is a group presentation of artworks by Aotearoa-based artists Renee Bevan, Yukari Kaihori and Lucy Meyle.

This exhibition takes its cue from bells and their radical modes of communication. As crafted objects, artefacts and instruments, bells in their various forms engage in the materiality of metal. That which is sounded and mobile and that which is silent, still, latent. There is the idea of contact, material resonance, emanations and a sense of expansiveness. Think of the way in which fluffy seeds appear on the spherical head of a dandelion. Often, seeds disperse themselves outwards, with abandon, forging on, ever-outwards. We are heartened by the way in which the sound of a bell travels across distances indiscriminately. Bells involve the tintinnabular –ringing and tinkling sounds, causing small vibrations, resonances and ripple effects.

Baskets are woven outwards, smoke spirals, pollen flies, the light of the moon haloes, stars burst... the castle and the goat provides a framing structure for such material and resonant phenomena to take place. Hosted by Goya Curtain it is organised by Victoria Wynne-Jones.