Phase 1 - update:
Exhibition
Well we have
been hard at work since our last blog update making artwork and developing the
project further. Due to various reasons we have not yet managed to organise our
exhibition but we are looking to hold this towards the end of 2012 at a venue
tbc.....we have one in mind but not yet confirmed so we shall keep you posted!!
The main themes of the exhibition will be -
Sustainable arts practices from around the world and what this means to artists
Our relationship to the environment and how it compares across the world
Looking back at our heritage and craft and presenting it in a contemporary way
Crossing cultures and skills sharing
Below are some artists who will feature in the exhibition:
Jaime Miranda – Jaime is a sculptor and photographer
whom we met during our
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LEO – Leo lives and works between Berlin and London and is currently Artist in Resident
at VARC – Visual Arts in Rural Communities in Tarset, Northumberland
(www.varc.org.uk). Leo is interested in the current nature of environmental art and
public art. - www.cskx.org/leo
Trina Brammah – Trina is a painter and founder of Sachaqa Arts Centre .Trina works by collecting natural pigments from local river sources in the Peruvian jungle - http://www.trinabrammah777.blog.com/
Testing out ideas at VARC (Visual Arts in Rural Communities)
In April – May 2012 we spent time with LEO in
Tarset, Northumberland as part of his artists workshop programme. A group
of us with various interests came together to make artwork inspired by the
landscape. It was quite a short time scale but great to get stuck into creating
something outside with the challenge of such a tight deadline. The images show what we were working on. The 'cuffed' treetrunks was an experiment with sightlines and viewpoints (and gold leaf!). The area of woodland we worked in was full of verticle lines and I wanted to cut across this with something- i also like the idea of 'ringing' the trees, to set them apart from the rest, if i'd had more time i was going ring all of the trees in that sightline. We've also been collecting platic strapping and plastic bags and creating smale scale experiments with proggy matting and weaving - with an aim that these would lead to a large scale installation. To see more images of our time at VARC visit our Flickr site.
International Skype exchange project with Lima and Newcastle University:
This is progressing well and we are looking to hold a skype session
between Fine Arts Students from Lima University
and Newcastle University in collaboration with David Butler in Oct/Nov 2012.
This online exchange will allow the students to discuss the theme of
sustainability within their own practices and look at the differences between their
work, culture, heritage, traditional skills and crafts and even the differences
between their fine art courses.
This online exchange will form part of a larger project with Newcastle University students where they will be exploring the above themes through their own individual art practices in preparation for exhibiting the resulting art work as part of our exhibition in Dec 2012.
Transporter Interim Phase (Berlin):
We have just received funding from Arts Council England to deliver an
interim phase of the Transporter project (Hooray!) which will allow us to spend
time at Kunst Stoffe in Berlin for 5 weeks in September 2012, deliver another
series of workshops in the North East and develop a larger Phase 2 programme for
next year.
Kunst Stoffe is an
arts organisation that looks at the creative re-examination and re-use of
recycled materials.
In Berlin we
will spend a focussed amount of time resolving ideas, evaluating our
experiences so far and realising artworks
that epitomise Transporter in a visual way . We will create collaborative work
inspired by Berlin and our travels so
far in Peru, exploring how they could have resonance and meaning in both
places. There will be a 5 day
exhibition at the end of the residency to showcase our new work and as always
during this residency we will post regular blogs about the artists we are
meeting and the new skills we are learning.
During our
residency we want to explore the idea of habitual waste in Berlin making
artwork that responds to this and
comparing it to the waste habits in Peru and England. We are interested in the
social aspects of this topic and what we
can learn about different cultures from their daily lives. We are keen to
explore the functionality of waste –
taking the material and creating something new and useful in a fun way i.e.
weaving raincatchers from discarded
bottles or strips of plastic, creating fantastical new landscapes from
discarded images of Berlin or installations
from recycled paper/cardboard to develop our skills in paper engineering and
origami creating places to sit and reflect.
Here are some of our initial ideas......
Transporter Phase 2 -
As mentioned previously, we are currently developing Phase 2
of Transporter and hope to create a programme that will allow further exchanges
and discussions to be made between the local, national and international links
that we have made so far during the project. We hope to develop a wider discussion
around the theme of sustainable arts such as ideas on the re-presenting of traditional craft and re-examining of waste materials.
As part of
our interim phase funding we talking to a variety of
organisations and artists who have similar interests and can widen our
knowledge bank. We can then add this information and any skills to our blog and flickr site. We hope to develop
a touring exhibition and develop a live exchange between artists and
organisations from different countries.
Some of the
organisations we are currently talking to are –
As ever, we
will update our blog as we go along and will post videos and images on our
Flickr site.
If you think you have a project or an idea that would link to Transporter then do get in touch.
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