here and there: an art walk in belper parks took place during the bank holiday weekend at the end of may 2015. featuring work by three artists and around 20 knitters and crochetters, the event attracted between an estimated 300 – 600 people. the project had set out to utilise an area of…
love parks week is a national campaign intending to celebrate our parks and green spaces by inviting individuals and groups to mount activities in their local park and green spaces and promote the activity via the love parks week website. partnering with amber valley borough council landscape services, corridor arts mounted an installation by andrew…
These outdoor sessions consisted of games, art activities, den building, putting hammocks up and generally being outdoors and enjoying our surroundings. Belper parks is an ancient woodland steeped in history with a little brook running through it. Just perfect for floating little boats made from natural materials. These sessions are aimed at the whole family. we…
andrew worked with the drop inn youth foundation as they made their first well.
in february 2014 andrew replied to a call out for suggestions for a donations baox at strutt’s north mill in belper. he recieved an invitation to visit the mill to take the ideas further and they were liked so much that he was commissioned to make a donations box for the mill. “i worked very…
the theme of the trail was the journey of favourites. we invited submissions of artist’s favourite work and carefully selected the retail outlets in which they were displayed.
in 2012 the belper well dressings were due to be on display during the second week of the belper art trail. as a group we decided to take part in the well dressings to experience the very traditional process of making a well. the design came from an entry to the murmation project. in making…
2012 was very much the year of celebration and the year of participation. the nation was celebrating the queen’s jubilee and would go onto be emthralled by the olympics from london. in belper the celebrations were in the library – 75 years and the east mill – 100 years. the mill inspired the theme for the…
the murmation project ran as a participatory activity from october 2011 to july 2012. the project centrered around an a4 sheet with some marks already made. to participate, teh sheet was downloaded, marks added adn returned to us via post or email. we showed all the submissions as part of the 2012 belper art trail….
the 2011 trail was very much a pilot. chris had approached the belper food festival comittee with the offer of making an art trail to compliment the one day food event. the committee loved the idea… we had no funding so decided to keep things simple to se what we could achieve. we asked artists…
