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Artists Amy Houghton and Ed Holroyd have been working on a creative web based project called Tweave commissioned by Craftspace.
Tweave is a website that maps sound recordings of craft and making to create an evolving thread of sounds. Anyone can contribute by uploading sound recordings they have made and anybody can browse the map and listen to the recordings.
The website address is: www.tweave.co.uk
Over the last few weeks the creators of Tweave, Amy Houghton and Ed Holroyd, have been undertaking a ‘Craft Crawl’ where they have been visiting people’s places of making to make recordings to add to the Tweave map. As part of this Craft Crawl they are organising a ‘Tweave up mini bus Craft Crawl’ which will take place on Saturday 30th July. They are inviting people to join them on this mini bus Craft Crawl which will involve making (bring something along for the trip), visiting people’s places of making, making recordings and a picnic. The plan is that the mini bus will set off from Bath, head towards Stroud and back again.
There are 15 places available so if you would like to join them please email Amy at mail@amyhoughton.co.uk. They will also shortly arrange a rendezvous place and time where people that don’t join the mini bus crawl can drop in and meet the group for a cuppa, a picnic, some making and recording. Watch this space for an update.
After nearly 18 months the exhibition opens at its final venue today, The Platform Gallery in Clitheroe.
This is a reduced version of the exhibition as The Platform Gallery is a smaller but lovely venue. However every exhibitor is still represented.
For more information on Taking Time in Clitheroe please go to www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/platformgallery
The Gallery is open from 10am – 4.30pm Tuesday to Saturday.
Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution is on display there until 9th July.
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery are hosting two Taking Time events on Tuesday 5th April.
A brooch from The Mind in the Hand Series by Esther Knobel
The first is a lunchtime talk by Russell Martin at 1.10pm.
Go along to the museum to find out more about the ideas and themes behind the Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution exhibition.
Russell was the artist behind Analogue, a dialogue project commissioned by Helen Carnac and Craftspace as part of the exhibition development. Analogue sought to enliven the themes and discussions taking place on the exhibition blog and to explore new themes through open dialogue.
For more more information on the Analogue project go to http://makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com/analogue/
Following the lunchtime talk why not go along to a musical performance:
Fifteen Images 3pm to 4pm (performance lasts for 45-50 minutes)
Matt Robinson: piano
Kieran McLeod: trombone
‘Fifteen Images’ marks the coming together of textiles, digital images and music in a reflective piece
inspired by the garden of a 17th century Quaker meeting house at Brigflatts, Cumbria.
A mix of subtle animation, textiles and the aesthetics of the Slow Movement, this will be the first
performance of the work as a duo for acoustic piano and trombone.
This performance is connected to the work by Alice Fox in the Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution exhibition and has been
organised by Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth.
Fifteen Images by Alice Fox
For more information onboth events go to: http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/museumpcmag.htm/
Saturday 9th April
Spend a day exploring how ancient pots were made using simple tools and techniques such as pinching, coiling pressing and impressing.
Booking deadlin: 31st March
- Cardigan Study – Amy Houghton
Taking Time exhibitor, Amy Houghton is speaking at the Textiles Forum South West on Saturday 26th March.
More than just a conference, Textile Forum South West is hosting a whole day exploring textile territories – looking, listening and participating in mapping the future together.
We will survey ideas from traditional geographical and textile maps to virtual mapping now; view current personal textile practice using journey as both inspiration and process; demonstrate new routes to networking with like-minded makers and have the chance to participate in making fabric markers for mapping further textile journeys.
Amy will be speaking about Tweave at the conference in Taunton. For more information go to:
Made in Edinburgh
In addition to the Taking Time exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery until 9th April, Amy Houghton’s work can also be seen close by at Plymouth College of Art. Amy has undertaken a 15 month residency at the College which relates to the ‘slow’ themes of the Taking Time exhibition.
Her work will be on show at the college from the 3rd March – 23rd April.
Let us know what you think!
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Amy Houghton
Hacking Antiques
The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art
3rd March to 23rd April 2011
Amy Houghton has been undertaking a ‘Slow’ 15 month residency at Plymouth College of Art since September 2009. Hacking Antiques has emerged as a result of research and exploration during this residency period.
Amy’s background in textiles continues to influence her practice, which currently features the use of animation and video installations to explore hidden and revealed histories and stories related to old objects. She explores how we use and read antique objects as stimuli for nostalgic longing, as indicators of our authenticity, as tools to search for origin, and as a connection to reality in the context of contemporary society.
The outcomes invariably involve pseudo forensic and archaeological processes to examine and reanimate the objects she works with, through stop frame and video animation. Amy creates work that explores the relationship of time and the haptic through the animated dissection of objects and/or animated photographs and paintings.
String objects from Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery have taken Amy on an unexpected journey involving literally unravelling the ‘truth’ about Female explorer Gertrude Benham. Through investigating Gertrude’s journey, Amy’s own has led her through the exploration of craftsmanship and related stories and to the discovery of some unpredictable connections of invention and mechanical developments. She expresses this journey in the series of animation installations, which are grouped with the title Connecting with Gertrude. Visitors are invited to participate in – or contribute to – the function of the work. Through this active involvement it is possible to discover relationships and connections with the objects contained in the work, thereby exploring the making and unmaking process relative to the time and space of the components presented in three forms: firstly, as original artefacts; secondly, in the animated examination; and thirdly, in the time and space of the exhibition itself.
Until the 9th of April, Amy’s exhibition here at The Gallery will coincide with Craftspaces’s touring group exhibition Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution being shown at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, which will also feature Amy’s work.
The exhibition opened today at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, the seventh venue.
Here’s some quick images taken at the end of installation yesterday evening.
This showing of the exhibition also has new work included:
Fifteen Images by Alice Fox, with music by Nigel Morgan is a collaborative work in which textiles and music come together and interact to create a seamless immersive experience for listener and viewer. The work, a mixed media installation by Alice Fox was developed from her work with technologist Phil Legard. They worked collaboratively in the creation of digital animations of textile surfaces to coincide with composer Nigel Morgan’s algorithmic music. The textile element of the installation is shown below.
For more information on the installation and how it reflects the themes of the exhibition go to Alice Fox’s blog:
or Nigel Morgan’s Weaving blog:
http://nigelweaving.wordpress.com
The Gallery has lots of events on during the exhibition, for more information on these go to:
http://www.plymouthmuseum.gov.uk
or check out more installation images at:
The Taking Time exhibition comes to an end at Gracefield Arts Centre this Friday 28th January, following a succesful run. If you’re able to catch it before it moves on, the Arts Centre is open Tuesday-Friday 10am – 5pm. Go to www.dumgal.gov.uk/gracefield for more information.
The next stop on the exhibition tour is Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery from Saturday 12th February.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXi4LedEjAc
Watch a video of Shane Waltener’s growing installation uploaded to You Tube each day
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