Led by our curator and director, Joséphine May Bailey, this exclusive tour will give you an in-depth look at the artworks on display, and provide insights into their symbolism and significance.
Within this ambitious new body of work, Hamblet delves deeper into her fascination with the weather. The exhibition title, Noises in the Florid Sky, is inspired by Richard Mabey’s 2013 book Turned Out Nice Again: Living With The Weather. Within this book, Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather’s impact on our culture and national psyche. The reference to ‘Florid Sky’ is also taken from the poem Electromagnetic by Emily Rothko, where she writes “Disruptions in the Florid Sky ... An inner weather grows out of the atmosphere”. This quote is something that Hamblet refers back to often when making work, directly informing and impacting her practice
