Following on from the amazing stop-frame animations created by the Breeze group with Alison Booth, I worked with participants to create portable animating objects, either using drawings or images created in the pop-up photo booth. Using pre-cinema Zoetrope and Phenakistoscope techniques with recycled materials. At The Tetley.
Following on from the amazing stop-frame animations created by the Breeze group with Alison Booth, I worked with participants to create portable animating objects, either using drawings or images created in the pop-up photo booth. Using pre-cinema Zoetrope and Phenakistoscope techniques with recycled materials. At The Tetley.
Half way through our workshop sessions working towards the exciting Maze of Mirrors for Unity Day!
During our 1st session we had a LOT of fun thinking of key words and ideals for our Utopia (ie. putting the world to rights!) which continued into the 2nd session with Kerri & Molly gathering some excellent contributions and thoughts from the crowds in Hyde Park! We’ve had everything from ‘no politicians’ to ‘more leopards climbing trees’….
Translating the words into Thomas More’s Utopian alphabet has been an interesting challenge too, we realised that the letters ‘u’ and ‘w’ weren’t used much in the 16th century…, so Margaret designed some Utopian alternatives for us to use.
The construction of our optical illusions are underway! We looked at artworks by Marcel Duchamp and Ludwig Lindley alongside some amazing examples of antique phenkistoscope designs and will use these to create some large scale ‘tricks of the eye’ to hypnotise our audience with our Utopian values!
Exciting project for Unity Day 2014 with Swarthmore Education Centre! I’m looking to put together a creative team for a series of free workshop sessions over the next few weeks, so that we can design and build a large, sculptural Maze of Mirrors! The maze will also contain a number of hand made optical illusions which will convey secret messages using the Utopian language created by Thomas More in his sixteenth century book which described a fictional island society in which everything, apparently, was perfect…
If you are interested in taking part please email info@swarthmore.org.uk or call 0113 243 2210. The sessions will be best enjoyed if you are able to make all of them, but if you can only make one or two it will still be great to have you!
Delivering a a fun day of collagraph printing with artist <a href=”http://claremccormack.eu/” target=”_blank”>Clare McCormack</a> on Saturday 5 July as part of Chapeltown Arts Festival 2014. It was a very fun and busy day with some excellent printmaking! We thought everybody did excellently and were also pleased to discover that our printmaking workshop fits perfectly in Clare’s bicycle trailer- we are officially portable! Allez, allez! More images of people’s prints will be added soon…
Taking part in training run by Campaign for Drawing at The Hepworth Wakefield in order to begin plotting an event of my own for The Big Draw October 2014.
Assisting with the short Printmaking course at East Street Arts’ Union 105 led by artist Nat Searle. Students employed various print techniques over 4 days. Methods included monoprinting, collograph printing and gelatine printing.
Working with artist Clare McCormack, preparing plates and experimenting with textures so participants can create collagraph prints of their homes as part of the Chapeltown Arts Festival programme in July.
For this project participants manipulated everyday objects and created abstract sounds and images that gave the objects new purpose. Unlikely combinations…a hoover, a comb and a bicycle pump…could be combined to create strange compositions and dramatic noises….distorting our perception of these ordinary items we would usually not look at so closely!
The workshop was open to pupils of three primary schools in Hunslet, who had taken part in a series of artist-led activities at The Tetley, exploring the use of recycling in the creation of artworks.
