Make It!
Posted: November 16, 2018 Filed under: Card Modelling Kit, Paper Kit, Uncategorized | Tags: #ACE, Bebington Library, Card Modelling Kit, Collaboration, Collage, Montage, Port Sunlight Leave a commentWe are delighted to have taken part in Make It! an ACE project created by Wirral Libraries to turn libraries into creative spaces by bringing artists and eager makers together.
We worked with a wonderful group of talented ladies at Bebington library and together we took inspiration from the amazing architecture in Port Sunlight to create 3D models in card. We used the artwork to make two large collaborative pictures. Four different groups met at various libraries in the area. The work of all four individual groups will be exhibited at the Williamson Art Gallery on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th November and then the work will go on display at the individual libraries.
Further to the workshops we were commissioned to create a card modelling kit which we designed around the facades of 4 different building in Port Sunlight. The limited edition of kits will go on sale this weekend at the Williamson and then at Bebington Library.
Behind the Wall
Posted: March 14, 2017 Filed under: Art, Art Commissions, Commissions, Heritage, Lancaster, Uncategorized | Tags: #ACE, #cardmodel, #catonroad, #clocktower, #exhibition, #industrial, #industrialheritage, #industrialvintage, #industry, #internmentcamp, #lancashire, #lancashirehistory, #lancashiretextiles, #lancasterheritage, #lancastermuseum, #libertyprint, #pigeonholes, #printedfabric, #printedtextiles, #printworks, #siteresponsive, #standfast, #textileindustry, #textileprint, #textiletrade, #timemachine, #wagonworks, #ww1, 3D, Art, Bonker*s Clutterbucks, Collage, Diorama, Haslingden, Haslingden Artists, Heritage, Lancaster, Rossendale, Rossendale Artists, Textiles 1 Comment
March the 3rd marked the unveiling of a heritage art show that we took part in called Behind the Wall based on the history of the Caton Road building now used by Standfast & Barracks. The project was dreamt up by Mirador and was partly ACE funded. We contributed with five other artists including Michael Brennan Wood, Darren Andrews, Carolyn Bartlett, Katie Duxbury, Jon Randall and Adam Clarke all of whom brought their own interpretation of the site to the exhibition.
The building is now a print and dye works but has had numerous uses over the years including wagon works, temporary army billet in WWI and a POW camp and has an impressive clock tower designed by Edward Paley. We decided to recreate the clock tower as a time machine, the idea being that you dress up in period costume provided and climb inside the clock tower and off you go back in time! We also made 3D Clock Tower model kits which are available in the museum shop.
The locker room houses the costumes and the pigeon holes piece compartmentalises the various times and uses. We had access to Standfast’s beautiful pattern archives which we incorporated.
The show is made up of very individual site responsive pieces including Standfast in Minecraft, period costume made from contemporary printed fabrics, embroidery, photography and film and is interspersed with swathes of fabric printed with the historical timeline.
The exhibition is free, on until May 1st and you can come along to a free Clock Tower model making workshop for families on March 25th 11- 3pm at Lancaster Museum.
Bonker*s Clutterbucks 