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…
an afternoon of making in the outdoors.
a walk to visit the betty kenny tree in ambergate. along the way we sketched, drew, photographed, rearranged twigs and generally enjoyed being outdoors for a few hours.
as the name suggests, this project was to re-connect with a project that had been abandoned. in so doing chris ran two hour sessions that provided an opportunity to make with other artists and makers while concluding something hither to abandoned.
in attempting our first project in an empty shop in derby we found our name and through a particluarly helpful landlord were finally able to mount this exhibition for a month. we’d seen a painting by alice in the taliswoman project in leicester. the project was about the life and work of artemisia gentileschi. christine…
