Muddy Arts Festival Update-May 2008
So the waves of change ebb against the shore of good intentions. I wrote last month that there would be a gallery on site, this has changed slightly. There will not be a gallery in the normal sense, it would be a bit of a logistical nightmare to produce this in five months, with super lo-budget, and with the additional factor that it would only be up for two and a half days it all seems like the energy could be better spent. And so it could, the concept of the gallery is to be turned inside out; 8 ft by 4ft boards will be positioned around the site, each board with a separate painting on it. They will zig-zag to create high-impact visual delights, space and atmosphere around the various stages and tents.
I have include a photograph of the sort of set-up I mean, these pictures were taken in Barcelona. The supports we will be using are more robust, at present we are looking at having large wooden fencing spikes hammered into the ground on either side and large screws affixing them.
We will have the boards in the art studio @ the glass onion which you can paint there, all styles and mediums are welcome. If you want to produce work with spray paint then these can be painted in the back garden of the Onion. (which hopefully will be open to the public very soon,) And, if coming down to the onion studio is awkward or inconvenient for any reason then we may even be able to discuss delivering a board or two to your address and collect when ready.
So if you want a board or two to paint up then please contact me and we can get something sorted. They will be left outside for the duration of the festival, i.e. they will be prey to the rain, so they may be in for a “weather experience”, as The Prodigy so eloquently put it on the masterpiece that is their first album. However the work can be protected to a degree with varnish or a PVA mixture.
There will also be a number of boards to be painted throughout the event itself, with all festival goers encouraged to participate in some of these. Hopefully we will have up to 50 boards, which gives a potential of 100 paintings.
(it is worth noting that these boards are usually scrapped by a local factory in Ramsey as they form part of the packaging that other materials arrive in, thus they would otherwise be destroyed or dumped, we arrange for them to be stored and collect them throughout the year for various art projects.)
All artists are invited to take part in this project. If graphics and design is your thing and these boards seem too big then perhaps team up with someone and make a collaboration piece. Your work could be printed out on our large format printer (A0 sizes) and pasted to the boards, or printed to acetate and projected onto the boards for outline work, there are many other possibilities. After the festival they can be stored for future use or returned to you.
I also wrote last month of a forested area, this too has been scrapped, money, time, space, and mostly the “weather experience” means that the idea is simply untenable. As too have the columns of light, unless a sensible solution can be developed then they too are crossed off the list. However sculptures are still gunning for it, alongside the flags. The flags will be made from reclaimed material, the flag poles, dunno, any ideas please give me a call. Lastly there are the banners for the various stages and areas, these will be done on large and long tarpaulin banners reclaimed from retail and promotional....thingies. These too can be painted at the glass onion. There are regular décor meetings at the Glass Onion, currently every Wednesday at 7pm approximately, please feel free to pop down for a chat.
big love from Muddy Arts team,
Luke Payn
lukepayn@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/muddyarts
First Published in Art & Soul Magazine in May 2008
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