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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.
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/
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.
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 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/
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