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Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Friday, 2 November 2012
Green Patch Celebration
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| Goodbye Green Patch |
Our Green Patch project has now come to an end, all the artworks are installed and the celebratory evening was wonderful. We were delighted to see and hear all the happy faces and great comments about our Residency at the Green Patch, one of the nicest being "I love all the things you have added to the site and you have both become such a part of the Green Patch family".
Many thanks to the members of the community who took part, all the wonderful volunteers who helped us, to The Green Patch and Groundworks team, especially Lucy, Allison, Nigel, Nikki, Caroline for providing the barbecue and Halloween decorations, Northamptonshire Community Foundation and the Community Development Foundation.
To see all the artworks created during the project please follow the link to our Flickr Sets which includes the Summer House Weather Installation, Rare Flowers sculpture, the pond sculpture, our large printed images around the office and stores, a bird mobile made from plastic bottles and work made with the community including signs and bunting! Lots of colour to keep the Green Patch bright and cheery into the winter months.
The work is staying permanently at the site, so do visit when you are in the area.
Thank you Green Patch, we had a lovely time! We won't forget you.
A view from the Weather Installation
The community gathering for the celebration by the polytunnels
A ray of light (inside the weather installation)
A shower of rain (inside the weather installation)
A fabulous end to a fabulous Residency!
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Light Creations for a Dark Day
Our last walk for the series Light Walks for Dark Days lived up to its name. A grey, misty and damp day with little contrast or colour.
This did not deter our Light Walkers however, seeing the greyness as a perfect opportunity to play with lights and flourescence - how could we introduce colour and light into the perfect backdrop of a foggy October day?
Armed with glow-sticks we set off to find dark spaces around the lake at Sywell Country Park.
There were many small gems to spot in the mist on the way.
It was great to have us all walking in a group together again, although sadly for the last time for this series of walks.
Autumn brought its colours to interrupt the greyness of the day.
Nipping into a gap in the hedge, we sneaked off the path and into the woodland. A beautiful hawthorn tree stood, its trunk in the dark and a low canopy spreading. We set to work to dress the dark space with flourescence.
Our sculptural light creations glowed quietly amongst the dark tangle of branches, appearing like floating aliens against the green.
We tried out our creations in other dark space, a natural fence in the hedgerow:
and an installation in the bird hide, the sun illuminating the colours as it caught them through the viewing slit.
It was nearly 4 o'clock when we finished circumnavigating the lake, and darker still. All the way round we had been searching for a perfect place of dark water, but had not found it. Carolyn was particularly determined to find the right place for our final installation of the day, and as we made our way back to the car park we suddenly found it! The Sheepwash running along the side of the car park took the water under trees where it was decidedly dark and made the perfect place for our final installation, floating lanterns.
Serenely bobbing along, they rode the current gently and gathered together at the root of a tree before we set them free again. Flames flared and died, turning from orange to blue.
We watched them for some time, then retrieved them from the water with bamboo canes, and left, leaving no trace but keeping our memories.
Our exhibition of the project will open on Thursday 20th December and run until 6th January at Market Street Mews, Kettering. Watch this blog for more details - we hope to see you there!
This did not deter our Light Walkers however, seeing the greyness as a perfect opportunity to play with lights and flourescence - how could we introduce colour and light into the perfect backdrop of a foggy October day?
Armed with glow-sticks we set off to find dark spaces around the lake at Sywell Country Park.
There were many small gems to spot in the mist on the way.
It was great to have us all walking in a group together again, although sadly for the last time for this series of walks.
Autumn brought its colours to interrupt the greyness of the day.
Nipping into a gap in the hedge, we sneaked off the path and into the woodland. A beautiful hawthorn tree stood, its trunk in the dark and a low canopy spreading. We set to work to dress the dark space with flourescence.
Our sculptural light creations glowed quietly amongst the dark tangle of branches, appearing like floating aliens against the green.
We tried out our creations in other dark space, a natural fence in the hedgerow:
and an installation in the bird hide, the sun illuminating the colours as it caught them through the viewing slit.
It was nearly 4 o'clock when we finished circumnavigating the lake, and darker still. All the way round we had been searching for a perfect place of dark water, but had not found it. Carolyn was particularly determined to find the right place for our final installation of the day, and as we made our way back to the car park we suddenly found it! The Sheepwash running along the side of the car park took the water under trees where it was decidedly dark and made the perfect place for our final installation, floating lanterns.
Serenely bobbing along, they rode the current gently and gathered together at the root of a tree before we set them free again. Flames flared and died, turning from orange to blue.
We watched them for some time, then retrieved them from the water with bamboo canes, and left, leaving no trace but keeping our memories.
Our exhibition of the project will open on Thursday 20th December and run until 6th January at Market Street Mews, Kettering. Watch this blog for more details - we hope to see you there!
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Celebrating the Green Patch
We are pleased to announce that our celebratory event for the completion of our residency at the Green Patch allotments, Kettering, will be 5-7pm on Friday 26th October at the Green Patch - and you are all invited!
It's been a lovely summer, with constantly changing weather and things growing all around us as our creative plans and ideas grew in the summer house! Come and share with us the art that our visiting participants made, as well as our completed "Weather Installation" and other works around the site that Carole and Jo have been making.
There will be a barbecue and refreshments, as well as some small items made by us to look at or purchase. There'll be a bit of a spooky theme too in keeping with the time of year and to celebrate the harvesting (hopefully) of pumpkins! Of course we'll have our gazebo just in case it rains - so wrap up warm and come along and celebrate with us! We hope to see you there.
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It's been a lovely summer, with constantly changing weather and things growing all around us as our creative plans and ideas grew in the summer house! Come and share with us the art that our visiting participants made, as well as our completed "Weather Installation" and other works around the site that Carole and Jo have been making.
There will be a barbecue and refreshments, as well as some small items made by us to look at or purchase. There'll be a bit of a spooky theme too in keeping with the time of year and to celebrate the harvesting (hopefully) of pumpkins! Of course we'll have our gazebo just in case it rains - so wrap up warm and come along and celebrate with us! We hope to see you there.
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| Trying out the new barbecue in the summer! |
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Monday, 8 October 2012
What's the Buzz - Latest Update on Green Patch Projects
We've been busy finishing the Weather Installation and creating our sculptures for the Green Patch, we're buzzing with excitement as more things are almost ready for our celebratory event. We can't show you everything as we want it to be a surprise but here are a few images of work in progress!
Time for tea!
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Curating the town: Walking Wet in Wellingborough
Not put off by the considerably wet weather, our Light Walks team gathered at Wellingborough Castle for our September Light Walk.
We had set aside our original plans for this walk due to the persistent rain, and opted for a more urban walk this time.
We started our walk in the art gallery space upstairs, where we laid down our challenge for the Light Walkers: could they look at the town of Wellingborough as an art gallery?
Jo gave each of the Light Walkers red dots and asked them to find "artworks" on the walk that they would like to "buy" and stick their red dot sticker next to that, to show it was "sold".
Since we had not planned this walk, Jo then introduced the team to the ideas of the Situationists and the concept of the dérive, and suggested that we take a walk driven by chance. Carole then explained how this would work, using a "fortune teller" she had made up from a map. The fortune teller dictated the direction of the walk.
And so we set off West, as directed by the fortune teller. It didn't take long before we started finding "artworks" to buy.
As we continued on our walk, we 'spotted' the following artworks on our way, and we feel this is a great exhibition created by the town of Wellingborough and curated by our Light Walks team. We hope you enjoy it!
We ended the day exploring the terrific Museum; here's John playing on their pianola!
We have one more Light Walk to do in October, followed by a celebratory exhibition. The venue is still to be decided (but contact us if you have any suggestions!), so check back soon for confirmation - we would love you to come along for our final celebration of a year of walking!
We had set aside our original plans for this walk due to the persistent rain, and opted for a more urban walk this time.
We started our walk in the art gallery space upstairs, where we laid down our challenge for the Light Walkers: could they look at the town of Wellingborough as an art gallery?
Jo gave each of the Light Walkers red dots and asked them to find "artworks" on the walk that they would like to "buy" and stick their red dot sticker next to that, to show it was "sold".
Since we had not planned this walk, Jo then introduced the team to the ideas of the Situationists and the concept of the dérive, and suggested that we take a walk driven by chance. Carole then explained how this would work, using a "fortune teller" she had made up from a map. The fortune teller dictated the direction of the walk.
And so we set off West, as directed by the fortune teller. It didn't take long before we started finding "artworks" to buy.
As we continued on our walk, we 'spotted' the following artworks on our way, and we feel this is a great exhibition created by the town of Wellingborough and curated by our Light Walks team. We hope you enjoy it!
Curated by Carolyn
Curated by Michael
Curated by John
Curated by Carole
Curated by Pete
Curated by Pete
Curated by John and Curtis
Curated by Carole
Curated by Michael
Curated by Carolyn
Curated by Jo
Curated by John
Curated by John
Curated by John
Curated by Carolyn
Curated by Curtis
Curated by Curtis
Curated by Pete
Curated by Carole
Curated by John
Curated by Jo
Curated by Jo
Curated by Jo
Curated by Michael
We ended the day exploring the terrific Museum; here's John playing on their pianola!
We have one more Light Walk to do in October, followed by a celebratory exhibition. The venue is still to be decided (but contact us if you have any suggestions!), so check back soon for confirmation - we would love you to come along for our final celebration of a year of walking!
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