"…a treaty will be signed sometime today" 


 
 
 

 “Treaty is a visceral tableau of bones, blood and rage"

 Philip Hughes, Director, Ruthin Craft Centre

The installation "…at treaty will be signed sometime today" was originally devised in 1997 for Mission Gallery in Swansea, then toured the UK and Ireland as part of the Knitting & stitching Show in 2000. In common with other pieces, it railed against the iniquity of those who conspire to wage war.

Like her work Casualities were surprisingly light, for the Bishops Palace in St Davids in Pembrokeshire, the theme of impersonal or imposing spaces, from prison cells to cathedrals were brought together in her allusion to the cabinet room or political sanctum.

Mission Gallery, a former church, was the perfect venue for this powerful work. The white cloth with distinct equally spaced folds, was absolutely vital to the message: the disaster of the world's state and its future further devastation piled in the middle of the table. Over it, out of the darkness a sword was suspended, tipped with blood; around, the sound of time passing.

Photography by Nicola O'Neill. Courtesy of Ruthin Craft Centre.