Corrymoor Socks as Art go on show in Liverpool.

The humble socks on your feet could become a new art form, especially if they

are mohair socks from Corrymoor Farm in East Devon.

Corrymoor Socks are to feature in an art exhibition in Liverpool to highlight the

need for sustainability in the way we lead our lives.

The Climate for Change exhibition at the FACT gallery in Liverpool features the

work of artist in residence Kai-Oi Jay Yung who who is undertaking her Sock

Exchange project at the gallery to help turn socks into works of art (April 6-12th),

inviting visitors to bring their odd and holey socks to the gallery as well as

running a Speed Socking Lonely Hearts event..

A specially commissioned video installation called Socking will also be included

in the exhibition and will feature the angora goats of Corrymoor Farm at

Stockland in East Devon. The film examines the whole sock making process

from the birth of angora goats at Corrymoor Farm to the eventual finished socks

which are then sent to customers around the world.

Kai-Oi Jay Yung wants to make consumers re-think the way they consume, and

to understand what it takes to produce everyday items like socks and what effect

that process has on the environment; I want consumers to be more aware of the

small details in their lives that they take for granted - like socks. The video will

give a platform for the agricultural and textile industries, but the sock exchange

will give people the chance to have fun and to darn their old socks and turn them

into little works of art.

Steve Whitley, who runs Corrymoor Farm with his wife Jenny, admits to having

been a little surprised when he was approached by Jay to take part in the video

for the art exhibition.

We were a bit sceptical at first. It is not every day that you are asked to appear

in a video for the sake of art, but Jay soon persuaded us that she was serious

about making the public think about agriculture and the sock making process. It

is nice to think that our angora goats and socks are being celebrated in this way.

-ENDS-

For more information about Sock Exchange, please contact Jay Yung on 07961

915011 or email yung_jay@hotmail.com

www.myspace.com/artsockexchange

www.climateforchange.fact.co.uk/residencies:jay-yung

For more information about Corrymoor socks visit www.corrymoor.com or email

socks@corrymoor.com or Tel 01404 861245.

If you require images of the products featured in this press release, please

contact Gail Livingstone, Message Over Media: Tel 01823 252415 or mobile

07767 055595 or email gail@messageovermedia.com

Note for Editors Kai-Oi Jay Yung is a Liverpool-based interdisciplinary artist who includes

performance and video installation in her work. She has exhibited internationally,

from Istanbul to China and the United States, as well as at galleries in the UK

including the Arnofini in Bristol and the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

FACT is the UK Foundation for Art and Creative Technology and is based at 88

Wood Street in Liverpool. Admission to the Climate for Change Exhibition is from

13 March until May 31st. Entrance is Free.

Further information about FACT and the Climate for Change exhibition is

available at www.fact.co.uk