About the exhibition

Kristin Headlam's exhibition A Domestic Sublime�is comprised of a suite of etchings firmly based in the tradition of drawing. In a number of works the etched lines are selectively augmented by the use of drypoint, one by a splash of hand painted colour, and another by the extensive use of spit bite. � ��

The exhibition includes eight works that are Headlams' response to poems by her partner Chris Wallace Crabbe from the Collections The Amorous Cannibal, Oxford University Press, 1985 and Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw, Carcanet Press Limited Manchester 2008

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Heaping, coruscating, a waterfall

light enough for the breeze to leaven,

this all too human foliage

to fill a lover�s hand, a coffin

or the red eye of St. Paul.

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Children�s drawings of trees

approximate you

with your striated trunk

and dense neat head

������������������������� inflorescent

of purplish scales or flakes

for our buttery meals,

seeming a sort of edible pinecone,

a green knight�s club

or else an absolute rose.

Chris Wallace Crabbe

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