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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/
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!)
Irene Brown visited Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution in Edinburgh and took inspiration from Amy Houghton’s piece ‘One centimetre is a little less than half-an-inch’ to write this poem:
Precision
that’s what’s needed
as fingers press down
on the black and silver keys.
tap,tap,tap And
The open mechanics
and simple mystery;
the compact form
of a typewriter.
tap,tap,tap,tap yes,
The elegant rising of typebars
writing the ribbon
as it spools through the guide.
tap,tap,tap I st
no delete button
no cut and paste
no spellcheck
just careful focus
tap,tap,tap ill
no unseen eyes
noting each stroke
holding your words
in their net
tap,tap,tap,tap love
just your fingers
dancing the keyboard
tapping into memory
tap,tap,tap you
Irene Brown
Further work by Irene is published in her pamphlet ‘Glass Slippers’ available from Calderwood Press http://www.calderwoodpress.com/
You can now view and download 4 podcasts which give four different perspectives on the exhibition from iTunes here
The four films show curator Helen Carnac
writer Carl Honore
and two participants William Leslie
and Roel Morgan talking about their perspective on the exhibition
If you don’t have iTunes you can also view them on the Craftspace web site or here on You Tube.
See On the web for more ways to get involved.
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