Wysing Arts_ communal amphitheatre
A really exciting project taking is place in Cambourne this summer with Wysing Arts. This large scale project will be the creation of a giant outdoor structure using only found and discarded materials. They need you to get involved – by give them your unwanted building materials or by joining in the designing and building of the structure.
This large communal structure is being headed by Berlin based artists Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser. You are all invited to work together on building the main structure, the amphitheatre, connect your own structures to it – anything goes! The only things you need bring with you are very basic carpentry skills (training will be given) and a willingness to experiment with scale, materials and concepts.
Wysing wants to encourage the communities surrounding us to work and play together. Influenced by the writings of American academic Robert Putnam who refers to “the collective value of all social networks and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other”.
Putnam’s concept of social capital stresses the importance of social ties among communities : “increased co-operation, collaboration and trust .. leads to .. better opportunities, health,
quality of life and neighbourliness”
Through this project Wysing is seeking to “raise levels of social capital locally, by developing experimental models of artistic activity and production”.
From 19 May onwards Wysing’s gallery has become a repository for unwanted and discarded, found and recycled materials, so if you are throwing away wood, windows, doors or any other kinds of structural materials, please let them know and they will take it off your hands.
International Residency with Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser takes place from July 16th and runs until August 31st.
To register your participation, or your unwanted building material, please contact info@wysingartscentre.org or 01954 718881.
www.wysingartscentre.org
Thursday 26 February 2009
Muddy Arts Festival 2008
Muddy Arts Update:
Grassroots Festival 5/6/7th September 2008
The art boards are going very fast and have created quite a bit of excitement. It now looks like the festival itself will be very active with artists producing a lot of work live on site. Artists from Locality, a local Hip Hop crew, the Muddy Arts Collective, Kelzo and friends from Manchester, and many others have all agreed to get involved. (check out www.kelzo.com) The boards measure 8ft x 4ft and can be painted both sides. If you have other art work you wish to display, on fabric, taurpaulin or board please contact me and I will try to accommadate it in the site. We want as much art on site as possible, so don't be shy.
“No Protection” is an additional feature to the site and will present artwork on small boards, cardboard etc. cable-tied to Harris fencing (the standard metal fencing you see around building sites) The idea of this project is for artists to donate art work to the temporary gallery, which festival goers can buy, proceeds going to St Teresa's Homeless Shelter. The work will be hung in the open air, hence “No Protection”. The work can be brought along or made on site, materials will be available.
If you have any old sofa cushions, curtains, fabric, wood, chickenwire, bedsheets, half used paint pots, wool, rugs,blankets,string,net curtains,tablecloths or anything else you think we could use we would be very grateful!!
Any other ideas for art on site please contact Luke on: lukepayn@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/muddyarts
www.thegrassrootsfestival.co.uk
Grassroots Festival 5/6/7th September 2008
The art boards are going very fast and have created quite a bit of excitement. It now looks like the festival itself will be very active with artists producing a lot of work live on site. Artists from Locality, a local Hip Hop crew, the Muddy Arts Collective, Kelzo and friends from Manchester, and many others have all agreed to get involved. (check out www.kelzo.com) The boards measure 8ft x 4ft and can be painted both sides. If you have other art work you wish to display, on fabric, taurpaulin or board please contact me and I will try to accommadate it in the site. We want as much art on site as possible, so don't be shy.
“No Protection” is an additional feature to the site and will present artwork on small boards, cardboard etc. cable-tied to Harris fencing (the standard metal fencing you see around building sites) The idea of this project is for artists to donate art work to the temporary gallery, which festival goers can buy, proceeds going to St Teresa's Homeless Shelter. The work will be hung in the open air, hence “No Protection”. The work can be brought along or made on site, materials will be available.
If you have any old sofa cushions, curtains, fabric, wood, chickenwire, bedsheets, half used paint pots, wool, rugs,blankets,string,net curtains,tablecloths or anything else you think we could use we would be very grateful!!
Any other ideas for art on site please contact Luke on: lukepayn@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/muddyarts
www.thegrassrootsfestival.co.uk
Arts Diary July 2008
Arts Diary
First Published in Art & Soul Magazine July 2008
This month I have been getting into the work of Thomas Hirschhorn, someone who's work at first confused and displaced me, but taking a bit of time for closer inspection has revealed a wonderous world of sincere and strongly galvanised artwork. This was a great reminder for me that, in the spirit of the great Bo Diddly who passed away this month, you can't judge a book by looking at the cover.
Kat Moores exhibition at The Great Northern was an incredible delight. The pictures show amazing visual dexterity, Kat has really worked hard at presenting the true nature of light. The atmosphere in the venue was very friendly and open, many thanks to Jessica and Kat for inviting us and making the afternoon so enjoyable.
I also visited the Bury St Edmunds art gallery where three artists displayed work under the title “focus on dance”. “Dancers” by Morten Nilsson, “Backstage at the Ballet” by Oona Richards” and “In The Flesh” by Billy Cowie. The exhibition was based around the formal side of dance, suits, ballrooms and ballerinas, (not the techno tribal side).The three pieces were a very clever video installation that made creative use of 3D specs, an automated sculptural construction that saw ballerina shoes moving without bodies, and some incredibly eerie photographs of aspiring young dances all kitted out in full ball room attire, there was something unnerving about these portraits. The gallery itself had a lovely ambience and we were warmly greeted. Their next show is “Suffolk Showcase” June 14th to July 19th www.burystedmundsartgallery.org
This month you can see “Poetry in Colour - The Art of Nature by Genevieve” at The Stamford Arts Centre. Geneviève mixes her own paints made from vegetable oils, organic colour pigments, ochres, and minerals resulting in a very personal style and textures. Her astonishing natural colours and versatile techniques of nudes, landscapes and abstracts have become her main trademark.
5th to 31st July
www.genevieveart.nl
At the Kings Lynn Arts Centre is a show dedicated to Walter Dexter. This offers a unique opportunity to view the breadth of work produced by this prolific local artist and includes drawings, paintings, illustrations, books and posters. 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the death of Walter Dexter (1876 – 1958), who lived and worked in King’s Lynn, latterly in Nelson Street and was tragically knocked over and killed by a motorbike in Saturday Market Place. Dexter was the first President of the King’s Lynn Art Club in 1945 and taught Art at King Edward VII High School. He was a remarkable painter of both landscape and portrait and was renowned for his fine views of King’s Lynn across the river from West Lynn.
Fermoy Gallery | 13 July – 9 August www.kingslynnarts.co.uk
In Cambridge you can visit Kettles Yard to see the work of Roger Hilton (1911-1975). He is widely thought to be one of the best and most adventurous painters of his generation. His paintings can be as rumbustious as the life he led. However abstract the paintings become the human body is never very far away. Spontaneous in gesture, they show him to be one of the boldest yet subtlest colourists. The exhibition focuses on Hilton at the height of his powers, from 1953 when he first saw the paintings of Mondrian, to 1965. It will feature more than forty oil paintings including several rarely or never seen before in exhibitions. 2 August - 21 September 2008
Also in Cambridge at the Ftizwilliam Museum is the exhibition “On the Shoulders of Giants”: Photographic Portraits from the University of Cambridge. Part of the University of Cambridge’s celebration of its 800th anniversary, this exhibition of photographic portraits by accomplished Cambridge photographer Howard Guest offers an intriguing insight into the working life of one of the world’s most celebrated academic institutions.
10 June 2008 - 28 September 2008
Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn, near Cambridge will be hosting an International Residency with Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser as they help the local community build a huge amphitheatre from waste materials. This looks like a fascinating project and hopefully I will get the chance to visit and see the artists in action, if so I will bring you a full write up. www.wysingartscentre.org
Over near Norwich at the Sainsbury's Centre For Visual Arts is a massive exhibition of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design called “Constructed - 40 Years of the UEA Collection”
The UEA collection began in response to the modernity of the University of East Anglia’s architecture. In 1968, UEA was one of England’s ‘New Universities’ with a bold concrete campus designed by architect Denys Lasdun to reflect the ambitious inter-disciplinary approach of the young institution.
The earliest group of works in the exhibition date from between circa 1910 and 1930 and reflect the origins of a modern ‘movement’. Early exponents included artists and architects associated with the De Stijl Group such as Gerrit Rietveld and those associated with the Bauhaus in Germany such as Wassily Kandinsky. Also works by Wassily Kandinsky and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. Artists began making work now described as ‘constructivist’ in the second decade of the twentieth century. WW1 and the creation of a new social order through the Revolution in Russia were instrumental in causing many artists to rethink how art and design shapes the way people live. This is a real treat and will give a real insight to art in the early 20th century.1st Jul 2008 - 14th Dec 2008. www.scva.org.uk
There are two fantasic shows in London for you this month, Stolen Space Gallery has some of the freshest work around at it's “Summer Group Show” with work from Vitche, Jana & Nunca (all from Brazil), Vhils (Portugal), Word To Mother (UK), Shepard Fairey (USA) and Andrew McAttee (UK). Check out their work on the internet to see what I mean. 18th July - 10th August. And the Tate Modern has it's own exhibition, “Street Art” from 23 May – 25 August.
Last of all Peterborough Open Studios is on throughout July, so make sure you take the opportunity to support our local artists, there is loads of great work on show so be sure to take some time to see what's being made in this fair city
That's all for this month, enjoy the summer !!
Luke Payn
First Published in Art & Soul Magazine July 2008
This month I have been getting into the work of Thomas Hirschhorn, someone who's work at first confused and displaced me, but taking a bit of time for closer inspection has revealed a wonderous world of sincere and strongly galvanised artwork. This was a great reminder for me that, in the spirit of the great Bo Diddly who passed away this month, you can't judge a book by looking at the cover.
Kat Moores exhibition at The Great Northern was an incredible delight. The pictures show amazing visual dexterity, Kat has really worked hard at presenting the true nature of light. The atmosphere in the venue was very friendly and open, many thanks to Jessica and Kat for inviting us and making the afternoon so enjoyable.
I also visited the Bury St Edmunds art gallery where three artists displayed work under the title “focus on dance”. “Dancers” by Morten Nilsson, “Backstage at the Ballet” by Oona Richards” and “In The Flesh” by Billy Cowie. The exhibition was based around the formal side of dance, suits, ballrooms and ballerinas, (not the techno tribal side).The three pieces were a very clever video installation that made creative use of 3D specs, an automated sculptural construction that saw ballerina shoes moving without bodies, and some incredibly eerie photographs of aspiring young dances all kitted out in full ball room attire, there was something unnerving about these portraits. The gallery itself had a lovely ambience and we were warmly greeted. Their next show is “Suffolk Showcase” June 14th to July 19th www.burystedmundsartgallery.org
This month you can see “Poetry in Colour - The Art of Nature by Genevieve” at The Stamford Arts Centre. Geneviève mixes her own paints made from vegetable oils, organic colour pigments, ochres, and minerals resulting in a very personal style and textures. Her astonishing natural colours and versatile techniques of nudes, landscapes and abstracts have become her main trademark.
5th to 31st July
www.genevieveart.nl
At the Kings Lynn Arts Centre is a show dedicated to Walter Dexter. This offers a unique opportunity to view the breadth of work produced by this prolific local artist and includes drawings, paintings, illustrations, books and posters. 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the death of Walter Dexter (1876 – 1958), who lived and worked in King’s Lynn, latterly in Nelson Street and was tragically knocked over and killed by a motorbike in Saturday Market Place. Dexter was the first President of the King’s Lynn Art Club in 1945 and taught Art at King Edward VII High School. He was a remarkable painter of both landscape and portrait and was renowned for his fine views of King’s Lynn across the river from West Lynn.
Fermoy Gallery | 13 July – 9 August www.kingslynnarts.co.uk
In Cambridge you can visit Kettles Yard to see the work of Roger Hilton (1911-1975). He is widely thought to be one of the best and most adventurous painters of his generation. His paintings can be as rumbustious as the life he led. However abstract the paintings become the human body is never very far away. Spontaneous in gesture, they show him to be one of the boldest yet subtlest colourists. The exhibition focuses on Hilton at the height of his powers, from 1953 when he first saw the paintings of Mondrian, to 1965. It will feature more than forty oil paintings including several rarely or never seen before in exhibitions. 2 August - 21 September 2008
Also in Cambridge at the Ftizwilliam Museum is the exhibition “On the Shoulders of Giants”: Photographic Portraits from the University of Cambridge. Part of the University of Cambridge’s celebration of its 800th anniversary, this exhibition of photographic portraits by accomplished Cambridge photographer Howard Guest offers an intriguing insight into the working life of one of the world’s most celebrated academic institutions.
10 June 2008 - 28 September 2008
Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn, near Cambridge will be hosting an International Residency with Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser as they help the local community build a huge amphitheatre from waste materials. This looks like a fascinating project and hopefully I will get the chance to visit and see the artists in action, if so I will bring you a full write up. www.wysingartscentre.org
Over near Norwich at the Sainsbury's Centre For Visual Arts is a massive exhibition of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design called “Constructed - 40 Years of the UEA Collection”
The UEA collection began in response to the modernity of the University of East Anglia’s architecture. In 1968, UEA was one of England’s ‘New Universities’ with a bold concrete campus designed by architect Denys Lasdun to reflect the ambitious inter-disciplinary approach of the young institution.
The earliest group of works in the exhibition date from between circa 1910 and 1930 and reflect the origins of a modern ‘movement’. Early exponents included artists and architects associated with the De Stijl Group such as Gerrit Rietveld and those associated with the Bauhaus in Germany such as Wassily Kandinsky. Also works by Wassily Kandinsky and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. Artists began making work now described as ‘constructivist’ in the second decade of the twentieth century. WW1 and the creation of a new social order through the Revolution in Russia were instrumental in causing many artists to rethink how art and design shapes the way people live. This is a real treat and will give a real insight to art in the early 20th century.1st Jul 2008 - 14th Dec 2008. www.scva.org.uk
There are two fantasic shows in London for you this month, Stolen Space Gallery has some of the freshest work around at it's “Summer Group Show” with work from Vitche, Jana & Nunca (all from Brazil), Vhils (Portugal), Word To Mother (UK), Shepard Fairey (USA) and Andrew McAttee (UK). Check out their work on the internet to see what I mean. 18th July - 10th August. And the Tate Modern has it's own exhibition, “Street Art” from 23 May – 25 August.
Last of all Peterborough Open Studios is on throughout July, so make sure you take the opportunity to support our local artists, there is loads of great work on show so be sure to take some time to see what's being made in this fair city
That's all for this month, enjoy the summer !!
Luke Payn
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