Thursday 31 December 2015

DRTT Montagu Monuments Project



The whole deep Roots Tall Trees team and Choir made a lovely visit to St Edmund's Church to see the Montagu Monuments and hear how we sound in the space. I'm going to be part of the Ring of Fire writing team again and will have another opportunity to find out how words, melodies, music, research, become songs under Barb Jungr's expert guidance and inspirational energy. 





Rosalind Stoddart and Barb Jungr


Musical Director Gareth Fuller


DRTT Choir exploring the space before testing out the sound

Sunday 1 November 2015

WILD PROJECTS #7 – HARD CORE – Test 4 - Balance and Connection



The twig bundles are slipped into the hole in the table.


Hard cores wrapped 


with soft bindings.


With support it can be possible


to find balance and connection


space to think, make, do, disappear.

WILD PROJECTS Curated by Artist and Sudborough Green Lodge Coordinator, Sophie Cullinan, Wild Projects are opportunities for artists to use the Lodge and the space around it, to meet, experiment with new ideas and to learn from each other’s skills, knowledge and experience. Events take place four times a year.

WILD PROJECTS #7 – HARD CORE – Test 3 - Please Keep Off The Seeded Grass


I arrange


and rearrange the items on the table.


 I am enjoying the weather worn surface.


I aim for more simplicity


I make small conversations.


I Consider The hard Core


I Must Keep Off the Seeded Grass


The Grass is Well established, I'm Walking On.


WILD PROJECTS #7 – HARD CORE – Test 2 - The Small Print


Other artists present are moving, singing, 
wrapping, slicing, spraying, making stories. 
We are all in our separate spaces, 
we are all together.


Not my apple but part of someone else's story.


Mono printing on the picnic bench by the apple tree, 
this ink is just water based, a bit too squishy, 
the results are unpredictable, 
there may be rain at any minute.


I press on.


She Embraces the Core of Things


Positive



Negative


There is Always Temptation


Positive Surrender


Negative Surrender


I invite Kate to place the prints and conkers
around the remaining parts of Test 1.


We have moved to a quite space


a picnic 
table behind the cottage


I am exploring secret spaces.


The prints are offered around the wrapped twigs 
and interspersed with the hard cores (conkers)


The Apple Queen and the Future Apple Queen visit.

WILD PROJECTS #7 – HARD CORE – Test 1 - Wrapped and Buried


WILD PROJECTS #7 – HARD CORE – 18TH OCTOBER 2015

Fermynwoods Contemporary Art invites expressions of interest from artists of all disciplines for the celebration of Apple Day in a uniquely beautiful, remote countryside location in East Northamptonshire, 2 miles from civilisation. 

Blessed with an abundance of apples since the wassailing of our trees last year, this is an opportunity to propose site responsive work, performances or any other form of work in any way you choose centred around the theme. Proposals for group activities particularly welcome.

Test 1 - Wrapped and Buried


Thinking about something hard wrapped inside something soft


The Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum
Status - near threatened, population decreasing


The apple - soft flesh, hard pips


I gathered apple and horse chestnut twigs, made bundles of three - the horse chestnut casing splits into three. Three can be considered lucky. Three can be tricky to balance. I wrapped each bundle with a band of felt and a contrasting piece of wool. I gathered more conkers, apples, twigs, put an apple in the bottom of a glass, put all the twigs both wrapped and leafy in the glass then balanced a conker in it's case on top of another apple. I buried the glass in a mound of hard core and placed more conkers. Much was buried, much was too complicated. Start again.

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Mess, Muddle and Materials - Monet Water Lilies, Year 2, Earl Spencer Primary School


We looked at Monet's painting and his garden,
talked about light and time, distance and focus.



We folded origami water lilies



I rolled blue watery backgrounds



each child drew a water lily and a leaf 
into press print and rolled their chosen colours.



We worked on A3 paper and made about 60 prints
and 30 folded flowers. It was a busy day!

Friday 9 October 2015

Artist in Residence - Priory Lower School - Picasso Yr 4


We looked at Picasso's harlequins 
and cubist musicians and then made 
a felt portrait head inspired by the 
paintings we had explored. We sewed 
them on the sewing machine, I
 steered, the children drove!


Whilst the sewing was taking place the children made



A3 paper collages of their own Picasso inspired musicians