The Errant Muse

This exhibition brings together image and text work by collaborators, artist, Charlotte Hodes and poet, Deryn Rees Jones. At the centre of their work over the last five years (2014-2019) has been the creative possibilities that exist in exploring the relationship between poem and image. The focus in their work together - whether in collage, poem, film, papercut, ceramic or drawing - has been the exploration and interrogation of the single female body and its relationship to, and movement through, space and time. In 'The Errant Muse', Hodes and Rees-Jones cultivated an archive of association as they juxtaposed text and artefact from the Victoria Gallery and Museum and the University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives. Taking on the idea of errancy, of women’s bodies transgressing spaces, wandering off the path, artist and poet offered the viewer a multitude of potential navigations through a new archival landscape.