Vera Boele-Keimer RWA@ Royal West of England Academy

Taking mundane, prefabricated materials such as cardboard, cloth or plastic as her starting point, Vera Boele-Keimer transforms shapes and surfaces by taking these materials through semi-systematic, simple processes such as folding, binding, cutting or coating. The resulting works show the traces of their making openly – often playful attempts to stabilise or mend the newly created structures. The exhibition, Make Do, brings together mostly small scale works from recent years, as well as new works from a residency at Thread in Senegal in January 2019.