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If you’re in London on the 8th July you may like to book a place on the Slow Summit.
Slow_Summit_Lectures click the link for info on speakers and more details.
Listen to this weeks ‘Off The Page’ on Radio 4.
Following her comment on the Making a Slow Revolution blog Jane Freear-Wyld has been asked to contribute to the next episode of the Radio 4 ‘Off The Page’ show entitled ‘Instant Gratification’.
Jane says:
“I thought you all at Craftspace may be interested to know I’ve recently recorded an edition of ‘Off the page’ for Radio 4 on the theme of ‘instant gratification’, which airs on Thursday 16th June at 1.30pm. The invite came right out of the blue and is due to Mark Smalley, the producer, having read and liked what I posted onto the ‘Making a Slow Revolution’ blog Craftspace was in involved with. It’s incredible that almost 3 years later I should get this opportunity, and that the blog is still having a positive effect.
As a tapestry weaver, ‘instant gratification’ is the complete antithesis of my working life which, by it’s very nature, is slow; and this was the stance I took on the subject.”
The BBC website descibes the show:
“Cheap credit and immediate online access to infinite availability have contributed to one of the defining characteristics of our time – the ‘have it all’ culture of being able to instantly gratify our wants and needs. But at what cost?
Dominic Arkwright explores the pleasures and pitfalls of instant gratification in the company of three speakers from very different walks of life. Representing the complete antithesis of the quick hit, tapestry weaver Jane Freear-Wyld shows Dominic a textile the size of a paperback, explaining how it takes 250 hours, or six working weeks, to make. Hers is a world away from the work of advertising creative director Matt Beaumont who arguably fuels our lust for not only jam today, but yesterday and tomorrow too. Meanwhile, Times columnist and writer Sathnam Sanghera, recently returned from a holiday in Mumbai, argues that it’s the recent shift towards instant gratification that is fuelling India’s rapidly rising standard of living, very different to an ethos that promises fulfilment neither now nor in in this life at all, but in the next one.”
On air:
Thu 16 Jun 2011, 13:30, BBC Radio 4 (FM only)
Mon 20 Jun 2011, 23:00, BBC Radio 4
Read Jane’s original post here: http://makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com/contributors/
While Taking Time was at Plymouth Nigel Morgan and Alice Fox collaborated to create an artwork which was shown alongside the exhibition. Here is some background…
In February 2011 The Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival invited Nigel Morgan and Alice Fox to give the Festival Lecture alongside a performance of the Fifteen Images by the jazz pianist Matt Robinson. Simultaneously Alice Fox’s physical representation of Fifteen Images in textile-based media joined the Craftspace exhibition Taking Time: Making a Slow Revolution in Craft at Plymouth Museum. As part of Plymouth Museum’s programme surrounding Taking Time Nigel Morgan was commissioned by Craftspace and Peninsula Arts to create a ‘Plymouth Version’ of Fifteen Images for two performers to premiere in the museum in the final week of the exhibition.
Lost & Found, Critical Cloth and Remainders examine how artists use garments and materials with a previous life. This season heads up three years of activity in which textiles – both contemporary and historical – will be a regular feature of the Castle’s programme, reflecting this important aspect of Nottingham’s history, as well as particular strengths in the collections.
Lost & Found and Critical Cloth have been curated by Deborah Dean, Visual Arts & Exhibitions Manager at Nottingham Castle, and Remainders has been curated by Ashley Gallant, part of a collaborative research project between Nottingham City Museums and Galleries and Nottingham Trent University, School of Art & Design.
The three exhibitions show newly commissioned and existing work from contemporary artists and makers such as Lucy Brown, Shelly Goldsmith, Amy Houghton, Tanvi Kant, Daniel Marcus Clark, Richard Wentworth and Rhiannon Williams, as well as key works from Nottingham City Museums and Galleries’ Fine Art Textiles collection.
The exhibitions are supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
This great project developed while the Taking Time exhibition was at it’s last venue in Plymouth with artist Anne-Marie Culhane. She’s ancouraging knitters to create apple socks for harvesting apples from recycled materials. Here’s what she says….
You are invited to take part in the Efford Apple Sock project.
Image: First drawing of apple sock , AMC
The project is about designing and making a useful, functional and attractive harvesting accessory, which can be used in the harvesting of tall fruit trees in cities, towns and villages across the UK.
It’s also about drawing attention to the Abundance urban fruit harvesting network, its potential, its playfulness and its contribution to a more sustainable and community focused way of life.
The sock needs to be 5m long and made if possible from recycled materials. Groups and individuals are already busy making prototype socks that can be tried out in the field this harvest time using knitting and crochet techniques. Materials being used so far range from string and cassette tape to recycled ripstock nylon… The socks will also be displayed in an exhibition in Plymouth. If you fancy having a go please download the brief or get in touch. There is some funding available to contribute to materials.
Click here for the Apple Sock brief
The apple sock project is created by Anne-Marie Culhane an artist, performer and activist and co-founder of the Abundance urban fruit harvesting project.
Image : section of sample jute string/garden twine sock knitted by Marian Culhane in Dartmouth
David Gates – anon. Parts 1 – 6 – Credit Richard Battye a photo by craftspace on Flickr. (Not in the exhibition at Clitheroe)
Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution is being installed at the final venue of it’s tour in Clitheroe.
The exhibition will open on the 7th May 2011 at the Platform Gallery, Clitheroe and run until the 9 July 2011.
This will be a slightly smaller version of the show as it’s a small venue and we can’t fit everything in! All of the artists are represented but some are only showing a selection of the work that’s been on display at the other venues. If you want to see some more work from the show, there are images on our flickr site in the Taking Time collection. We’re working on adding more images of the pieces over the next few weeks.
You can still join the discussion about the issues addressed by the exhibition on our other blog at http://makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com/
Plymouth Art Gallery has posted some great images of their education work with the exhibition. Look at the set (by clicking on the image) to see how they were inspired by the work of Matthew Harris and other artists in the show.
The next venue is Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery and, while the exhibition is there, the Devon Guild of Craftsmen are holding an exciting creative event around the themes of the exhibition – they have published some details:
Walking, Talking and Making
Monday 4 April 3.30 – 8pmA regional network event
Helen Carnac (maker and curator of the national touring exhibition Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution) and Paul Harper (writer and Director of alias – artist led culture) will lead a conversation on slow philosophies and making. Beginning with a walk in the environs of Bovey Tracey, participants will be asked to collect things along the way. Returning to the Riverside Mill these objects will become the centre of a short making project in the evening whilst Helen and Paul discuss making, talking and the main themes of the Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution exhibition at Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery from
12 February to 9 April.
£10 (£5 Members, Associates) including afternoon tea.
It looks like you can book your place now if you fancy going along.
You can download the brochure for the Devon Guild here http://www.crafts.org.uk/events.aspx
The exhibition is currently on show at the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries. This weekend they are holding what should be a really interesting talk which now also includes the curator of the exhibition, Helen Carnac (her talk was unfortunately cancelled due to the bad weather in December).
Taking Time …. to talk
Saturday 15 January 2011 2pm
Contemporary crafts professional Helen Voce chairs an In Conversation event with Taking Time makers Paul Scott and Dawn Youll. This will be followed by an opportunity to browse the exhibition with the speakers and enjoy a second opportunity to taste some local foods.
Paul and Dawn have very different ceramic pieces in the exhibition but both worked in partnerships with others to produce these. Hear how their practice developed through collaboration with others, what their influences are and how they responded to them to create the works included in the Taking Time exhibition and beyond.
You can find out more about their activities on the website and download a brochure of events here: http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2333&contactid=3623
(Our apologies for the lack of postings recently, we’ve had some serious IT issues!)
The exhibition has just opened at the Margaret Harvey Gallery in St Albans. This is scaled down version of the exhibition due to the size of the venue and it is also split over two sites so please contact the venue for more information if you’re making a special visit. Telephone: +44 (0) 1707 284290, Email: uhgalleries@herts.ac.uk.
There are some new images on flickr from this venue
The exhibition is open here until 20th November and then tours to the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries.
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