2012/2013
Workshops coming up:
Rye Creative Centre. Rye. East Sussex. June 22nd and 23rd 2013.
Please email info@carbonframing.com for more details and booking.
West Dean Foundation: June 7th, 8th and 9th and November 7th, 8th and 9th 2013.
Please contact West Dean College short course bookings directly on westdean.org.uk or phone 0844 4994408.
Here is a link to more info. on our drawing workshops and philosophy:
westdean.org.uk – more info on workshops
Walking Talking and Drawing at West Dean – A creative experience.
Run for both the Crafts Council in 2009 and 2010 and for West Dean foundation and arts students in May 2011.
These courses encourage people to find or rekindle their relationship with drawing and mark making. Drawing is seeing and the use and practice of using a variety of techniques to translate what you are seeing.
There is no such thing as the perfect drawing and giving people the opportunity at every stage of their careers to record what they see outside can be illuminating for their professional and creative lives. The workshops take students out into the landscape for a series of timed sketches, which culminate in the opportunity to talk and reflect about the work and examine how they might extend their approach through making simple books.
This year, I have been involved in installing joint exhibitions which arise from an initial concept or theme and carry through to inhabiting a room, a church or building with an immersive atmosphere which reflects the inspiration which produced the work. Some of the installation and curation is collaborative and sparked by joint conversations at the concept stage.
I am very interested in devising and developing these kind of productions of work for both craft and art scenarios and exhibitions.
www.hmag.org.uk - retrospective exhibition of Len Shelley and Angie Biltcliffe
www.schoolcreativecentre.co.uk – Rye River Walk
This residency included ‘walking, talking and drawing’ journeys, studio work, an educational workshop and culminated in an exhibition called Rye River Walk which has taken the form of a temporary installation within the school.
The exhibition shows ceramic work by Sarah Palmer and drawings and paintings by Denise Franklin. Found objects collected along the inspirational River Rother are interleaved with the work of the artists as part of the description of the environment.
The exhibition draws on the business of the river, the human trail and the travails of fishing and farming.
“Iconic warning signs, ugly boats, chemical works, futile fences, and the grim and stubborn beauty of the mud is combined with soft grey skies the salty snap of samphire and constant bleat of lambs.”
This hook line and sinker will be drawn anew in the slanting light of Ivychurch to create a meandering and silent impression embraced by the stone and wood of the church.
Arts in Romney Marsh – Installation in Ivychurch, Romney March, Oct. 2011
The Rye River Walk summer residency 2011 at the School Creative Centre began with many walks along the bank of the river Rother from Rye to the sea. Pieces of work, both experimental and exploratory were inspired by the sights and sounds of waterside life: the creak and cry of wharf and wildlife, the boat-building detritus, the tidal ooze,
On the opening night of the show, our waterside wanderings were echoed by meandering accordion music.