{"id":5109,"date":"2013-12-16T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2017-11-01T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:29:06","slug":"bethan-lloyd-attention-seeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/bethan-lloyd-attention-seeker\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethan Lloyd, &#8216;Attention Seeker&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bethan.jpg\"><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5109 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/bethan-lloyd-attention-seeker\/bethan\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bethan-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bethan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bethan-66x66.jpg 66w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/bethan-lloyd-attention-seeker\/bethan-lloyds2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bethan-Lloyds2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bethan-Lloyds2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bethan-Lloyds2-66x66.jpg 66w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>17 of January &#8211; 14 of March<\/p>\n<p>Opening times \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monday-Thursday 9.00- 19.00; Friday 9.00 &#8211; 18.00<\/p>\n<p>Opening 17th of January 20.00 &#8211; 21.30<\/p>\n<p>Bethan Lloyd is a Conceptual Textiles Artist and recent BCU Graduate with First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art. <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"b4e39bd4-4cb8-4466-923d-f266b72d893e\"><span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"af8a6b43-5389-4a1b-a333-5fd1f110ee20\"><span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"2285f483-d7fc-4442-ba04-6b3876bb9cd1\">Bethan&#8217;s<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0work utilizes people&#8217;s personal accounts of their experiences with mental illnesses to create emotionally charged Textile Installations. In her most recent work, the text is embroidered onto a synthetic material called Lutradur and\u00a0de-constructed\u00a0leaving suspended text ribbons.\u00a0The result is a series of delicate and ephemeral text sculptures which are juxtaposed with the tragic subject of attempted suicide. &#8221;It is as obvious as a train wreck and as subtle as breathing&#8221; Jessica Rankin.<\/p>\n<p>She is in\u00a0 a process of applying to do an MA in Art Therapy, so that could always put in somewhere if you wanted<\/p>\n<p>Attention Seeker \u2018Attention Seeker\u2019 is a un-edited personal account of attempted suicide. It forms part of an investigation into the narratives of the emotional pain experienced by mentally ill people. She felt that it was necessary for the viewer to experience the text in its entirety to establish a relationship with it and the story and they decided to re-write the account word for word on fabric with a sewing machine. She aimed to restore the intimacy of account whilst keeping her own interpretation to a minimum. The pages open for all to read and form their own opinions\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 of January &#8211; 14 of March Opening times \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monday-Thursday 9.00- 19.00; Friday 9.00 &#8211; 18.00 Opening 17th of January 20.00 &#8211; 21.30 Bethan Lloyd is a Conceptual Textiles Artist and recent BCU Graduate with First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art. Bethan&#8217;s\u00a0work utilizes people&#8217;s personal accounts of their experiences with mental illnesses to create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/bethan-lloyd-attention-seeker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bethan Lloyd, &#8216;Attention Seeker&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5119,"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions\/5119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moseleyexchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}