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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:
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.
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.
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 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.
We’ve had some great feedback on the installation we did with Shane Waltener at the Knittting and Stitching Show at Alexandra palace including this lovely email. Claire is running an interesting project called ‘Out There’, read the blog here http://ecooutthere.wordpress.com and here are her thoughts on the beneifts of Slow practice.
I just thought I’d email to say that I watched and loved the two video pieces made at Alexandra Palace about the Stitching Revolutions piece.
Your idea of ‘non-verbal conversations through making’ really struck me as I currently run a community arts project for adults who have experienced mental health distress. A group I have worked with for the last six months has been engaged with a natural dyeing project and have been using the yarns and recycled materials they have worked with to do some weaving.
I have been so struck by the way a slow organic process has had a positive effect on the well-being of the group. They have worked at a local community allotment growing the plants they have then used in the dye bath. Being able to use locally produced plants has given them a greater connection to the materials they have been using and a greater appreciation of the local environment. Almost all the original participants have stayed with the project (quite unusual in mental health work) and I am sure that the ‘slow’ nature of the project is largely the reason.
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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