COMMUNITY
New Mull gallery offers up ‘shed’-load of art ‘There’s a little group of There’s sheds...then there’s people who love tin sheds tin sheds crafted from and I’m one of them,’ she corrugated iron - or in Mull artist Charlotte Mellis’s case said. Charlotte’s corrugated ce- ceramic. ramics that will be on show Charlotte’s new gallery as part of her first Tin Shed also happens to be in a exhibition are not like perfect purpose-built tin shed and models: ‘They are very is dotted in the middle of nowhere between breathtak- rough, as though they have lived a very long time. ingly beautiful Calgary and ‘Corrugation Torloisk. is a thing of Verging on There’s a little beauty. I love her 70th year, group of people the colours as Charlotte it rusts and celebrated the who love tin decays. It’s opening of her sheds and I’m something I Tin Shed Galone of them discovered an lery on April 1. interest in while Within pottering distance of the towering living in Australia,’ she said. Charlotte shared her love home she built from a pile of of corrugation with her late stones with her now retired zoologist husband, Charlotte Australian artist friend Roy Jackson and work from his is revelling in having a fine estate will be sharing space purpose-built ‘des-res’ for at the Tin Shed’s opening her colourful creations that exhibition. is doubling up as a showRoy has been described case for others’ work. as one of Australia’s most Built from scratch, the shed’s outer-walls are black distinctive abstract painters. Roy, who died in 2013 and and the roof is clear, to let in natural light all the time. ‘It’s whose paintings are held quite something,’ said Char- in collections including the lotte, who admits she has ‘a National Gallery of Australia and National Gallery of thing’ for tin sheds.
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Victoria, had visited Charlotte on Mull and would ‘be tickled he was showing in a little shed in Scotland’, she said. ‘There’s not much corrugation in the work we will be showing, but he loved it too,’ said Charlotte. His partner is bringing some of his works on paper over especially for the exhibition entitled The Edge which will stay on show until June 5. Other friends who will be joining Charlotte in The Tin Shed are York-based printmaker Meredith Andrew, whose series of work Plenty has been inspired by her allotment featuring plants, animals and produce - dates for this show are June 10 until August 14. From August 19 to October 2, Charlotte has invited her former tutor from Harrogate Art College Dennis Farrell with his Hidden Landscapes ceramic pieces responding to observations of rural and coastal landscapes; each work has been built by hand and fired to 1,120 degrees centigrade.
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