Kendal Green: 1st August – 13th September

Kendal Green: An Exhibition by Hana Bassett

Ever wondered why Robin Hood and his Merry Men always wore green? Want to know about the men Shakespeare described as ‘misbegotten knaves in Kendal green’?

Weaving myth with historical account, this exhibition explores the many varied identities of those who wore and made Kendal Green, the local hard-wearing woollen cloth synonymous with the working class in the 17th century.

Using varied mediums, namely printmaking, textiles and painting, Hana invites us on journey through local wild spaces to take a deeper look at the hardship and resourcefulness of the historical labouring class and their relationship with our natural world.

About the Artist

Hana Bassett (she/they) is an artist and printmaker born and bred in Cumbria, UK. Her work celebrates the liminal – peering between the thin places where stories of myth and legend overlap with our human and more-than-human worlds. This is where she rests, embracing the otherness of living in a chronically ill and disabled body, of being queer in a binary-centric society and using this as fuel for creating.

When she isn’t carving and printing, writing or painting, she can be found scouring second-hand book shops for anything about folklore, or sitting in the woods with her notebook waiting for the moss-covered rocks to speak.

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