Having demonstrated at the William Morris Gallery last week it was
interesting to see William Morris starring in Jeremy Deller’s exhibition at
Bristol Museum. I had seen ‘English magic’ in Venice at the Biennale last year (post
on October 2013) where Jeremy Deller was representing the UK but it was
interesting to see some of the work again in a different setting. The main reference to Morris is in the large
painted mural ‘We sit starving amidst our gold’ in which he is hurling a yacht into
the Venice lagoon as a protest against their overbearing presence in Venice. However
there were also more domestic references such as a sample of the printed fabric
‘Evenlode’ (above) with some of the wood blocks used in its production and the tile
panel from Membland Hall. Both typical Morris designs with flowers, leaves and
pomegranates.
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