Honiton: Thelma Hulbert exhibition displays ‘sublime skill’, according to The Guardian

An exhibition at Honiton's Thelma Hulbert Galley is achieving national press interest and was reviewed in The Guardian.

Ingrid Pollard's Three Drops of Blood will remain in Honiton until October 29. Pollard is one of only four nominees for this year's Turner Prize, which will open next month at TATE Liverpool. The prestigious prize will be awarded on 7 December during a live broadcast on BBC television.

The Guardian review said: "Race, botany and folklore are interwoven with sublime skill by the Turner-nominated artist to explore colonial attitudes to race and Englishness.

"The Turner prize exhibition opens at Tate Liverpool in October. Until then, perhaps the best evidence around that here is an artist who, at 69, is only now coming into the peak of her creative powers, is to be found at Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, East Devon.

"A new solo show, Three Drops of Blood, brings together Pollard's recent engagement with 19th-century botanical collections and East Devon's history as a former world centre of lace-manufacturing with her own enduring concern with questions of race and the legacies of empire."

Ruth Gooding is the Curator at Thelma Hulbert. She told Nub News: "We have been overwhelmed by the response to this exhibition. 

"This project is our first collaboration with Talking on Corners and we have very much enjoyed developing the Three Drops of Blood exhibition and programme with Ingrid Pollard and Talking On Corners. 

"The exhibition is the culmination of Pollard's two-year research project in Devon. It draws on the history of ferns and botanicals, particularly how they are represented in local lace-making including Honiton lace, as well as the rich historical collections of books at the Devon and Exeter Institution in Exeter."

Ingrid Pollard's Three Drops of Blood will be open at Thelma Hulbert until 29 October. The exhibition is accompanied by a wide-reaching programme of workshops and talks, from photography to embroidery, boatbuilding to writing workshops.

The gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm. You can find out more information here.