Friday, 28 May 2010
Hayle Social Enterprise
When we were in the old building, the Hayle Social Enterprise Trust came in and pitched a project to us. The project involved making marketing materials and a promotional video selling the "Pioneerium", a museum, cinema and community hub that in theory would revitalise the town of Hayle. They gave us the proposal that they give to possible funding groups and other people who might be interested in the project, making parallels to the railway museum in York. The museum would be based around the early work of Trevithick, who was born in Hayle, even though all of his best work was done in Camborne.
The Tate St Ives
The Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, the only national museum in a rural context in the country. The St Ives site was built in 1993. They work with the whole of Cornwall. Most of the time they plan their exhibitions a few years in advance, and due to the big tourist industry in Cornwall, they have more visitors in summer and they prepare accordingly. The gallery is funded by the Department for Culture as the whole organisation, with three other sites in Liverpool, and the two in London, Tate Britain and Tate Modern, they also have a site for storing the exhibitions in North London. The Barbara Hepworth museum, set up in 1979 is also owned by the Tate. The only permanent exhibition in the gallery is a stained glass window by Patrick Heron.
On our trip to the Tate we saw artwork from Lily Van der Stokker, a Dutch artist who's work plays with the concepts of femininity and youth, using bright childlike colours and simple shapes. Lots of her work was installation, painted onto the walls of the gallery, such as a customised Ikea sofa against a wall painted with an explosion of colour almost bursting from the sofa itself. I really enjoyed the exhibition, I thought the pieces were all really appealing, and when I took my 9 year old brother the weekend after he did too. We also saw a large collection of work entitled Object: Gesture: Grid, St Ives and the International Avant-garde. Although lots of the work here is important in a historical context, I thought most of it was dull and uninteresting. As my younger brother described it, "What? This is art? ANYONE could do it."
On our trip to the Tate we saw artwork from Lily Van der Stokker, a Dutch artist who's work plays with the concepts of femininity and youth, using bright childlike colours and simple shapes. Lots of her work was installation, painted onto the walls of the gallery, such as a customised Ikea sofa against a wall painted with an explosion of colour almost bursting from the sofa itself. I really enjoyed the exhibition, I thought the pieces were all really appealing, and when I took my 9 year old brother the weekend after he did too. We also saw a large collection of work entitled Object: Gesture: Grid, St Ives and the International Avant-garde. Although lots of the work here is important in a historical context, I thought most of it was dull and uninteresting. As my younger brother described it, "What? This is art? ANYONE could do it."
Monday, 24 May 2010
Friday, 21 May 2010
Why do you want to make the artifact?
I want to make the scrapbook to document the experiences of everyone involved
What is the style, the mood, the feel ?
I want the book to have a rough and natural feel, to represent how we felt during the walk, as well as to make it feel unique as possible
Why use the techniques that you have chosen ?
I've chosen to make the book in this way because it best reflects the feel of the walk.
What archive material do you want to use and why ?
Maybe some photographs of the areas we walk through.
What you want to achieve through the scrapbook ? everyone's our memories and happenings and adventures from the Tinner's Way.
What new material will you use and why ?
I think we're going to use lots of pieces of map that show how the area has changed or stayed the same. Also we'll both be taking lots of photographs.
Identify your team and the roles they will play
My team consists of Me and Shay. Both of us will be taking on the roles of documenting the walks and the project. I will also be working on budgeting and costs, and Shay will work on organising the layout and content of the scrapbook.
Identify a time-frame
Our clients have given us until September to complete our project, as that is when the school's animations will be exhibited. Obviously we would like to finish before that, hopefully by the end of term.
Can it be achieved with the budget and resources that you have ?
Yes, we have ample resources provided by our client and plenty of time to achieve the final product.
I want to make the scrapbook to document the experiences of everyone involved
What is the style, the mood, the feel ?
I want the book to have a rough and natural feel, to represent how we felt during the walk, as well as to make it feel unique as possible
Why use the techniques that you have chosen ?
I've chosen to make the book in this way because it best reflects the feel of the walk.
What archive material do you want to use and why ?
Maybe some photographs of the areas we walk through.
What you want to achieve through the scrapbook ? everyone's our memories and happenings and adventures from the Tinner's Way.
What new material will you use and why ?
I think we're going to use lots of pieces of map that show how the area has changed or stayed the same. Also we'll both be taking lots of photographs.
Identify your team and the roles they will play
My team consists of Me and Shay. Both of us will be taking on the roles of documenting the walks and the project. I will also be working on budgeting and costs, and Shay will work on organising the layout and content of the scrapbook.
Identify a time-frame
Our clients have given us until September to complete our project, as that is when the school's animations will be exhibited. Obviously we would like to finish before that, hopefully by the end of term.
Can it be achieved with the budget and resources that you have ?
Yes, we have ample resources provided by our client and plenty of time to achieve the final product.
Monday, 17 May 2010
Targets!
For the end of today:
Finish comission, print out blog.
Blog about trips
For the end of this week:
Blog about partners
Carry on research for Tinners Way
Finish comission, print out blog.
Blog about trips
For the end of this week:
Blog about partners
Carry on research for Tinners Way
Friday, 14 May 2010
The Acorn, Penlee House Gallery
Penlee House Gallery is a traditional art gallery located in Penzance, in Penlee Park. Most of the work exhibited is local artists from late 19th and early 20th century. It specialises in showing the rich cultural heritage and art history in West Penwith. Many of the artists lived and worked in Newlyn, Lamorna and St Ives, all locations that still hold rich artistic communities. Personally I didn't like the art style shown there, but I can see it's historical importance.
The Acorn Arts Centre is a local theatre in Penzance. They do lots of community work, working with the Golowan organisers and using the centre as a base for the Golowan events such as banner making. They also host shows from well known performers such as Dan Antopolski and Joanna Neary. Sadly, the Acorn is currently under threat due to a lack of funding, and if something is not done soon they will have to close.
The Acorn Arts Centre is a local theatre in Penzance. They do lots of community work, working with the Golowan organisers and using the centre as a base for the Golowan events such as banner making. They also host shows from well known performers such as Dan Antopolski and Joanna Neary. Sadly, the Acorn is currently under threat due to a lack of funding, and if something is not done soon they will have to close.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Golowan people and The Exchange gallery
This morning we walked down into Penzance to see the organisers of the Golowan festival. Some of the information about festival organisation was really interesting, especially the costs and time spent organising. The people are planning next year's festival the week after that year's is over, and some acts from further away are booked for the year after that. The costs for everything push £100,000. It brings around 40,000 people to Penzance over the course of the festival and a special train is booked from Gloucestershire.
The Exchange in Penzance was also interesting, the exhibition had loads of photographs with excerpts of text mounted on lightboxes, by Jyll Bradley. We talked to Kirsty Lowry, one of the education people about the current community projects, and the types of project they do. At the moment they're doing a drop-in style workshop that's always open, where people can come and draw pictures. As well as this they do a small amount of outreach work into local schools, which is a common theme with all of their projects. These outreach projects have been going on since I was in primary school at Newlyn School. We worked closely with the art gallery in all of our art projects.
The Exchange in Penzance was also interesting, the exhibition had loads of photographs with excerpts of text mounted on lightboxes, by Jyll Bradley. We talked to Kirsty Lowry, one of the education people about the current community projects, and the types of project they do. At the moment they're doing a drop-in style workshop that's always open, where people can come and draw pictures. As well as this they do a small amount of outreach work into local schools, which is a common theme with all of their projects. These outreach projects have been going on since I was in primary school at Newlyn School. We worked closely with the art gallery in all of our art projects.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Trengwainton EASTER EGG HUNT!
For the Easter event at Trengwainton I had the idea of doing an Easter egg hunt. To stop one person going around and collecting all of the eggs though, there would have to be some sort of system to make it fair. To work around this I would place loads of small egg shaped tokens in four different colours in the gardens, and collecting one of each would get you an Easter egg.
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