'Spontaneous Communities' is an ambitious engagement programme for Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Five community groups will collaborate through the year with regional artists to research ideas, concerns and questions triggered by the Spontaneous City sculptures at NNF11, then they'll create new work for NNF12. Created by artists London Fieldworks and sited at Eaton Park, Waterloo Park and Cow Tower in Norwich, the sculptures draw on the ecology and biodiversity of their settings.
Thursday 12 January 2012
Referencing architecture
The Spontaneous Cities reference the architecture around them so we took a close up look at some features of Norwich Cathedral which could be seen from Cow Tower, if you were a bird in a sculpture, up a tree ! Drawing from cropped, close up photos of architectural features gave us chance to do a little mental warm up ahead of a planned a visit to the real thing in a couple of weeks time. We also did some collaborative group drawings attempting to draw 'as if we were one artist' questioning the subject out loud, externalizing the internal dialogue, guiding each other and rotating ourselves and the drawing. We were against the clock but there was a kind of inherent editing and correction that went hand in hand with the discussion, unruly but fun and I think I got to see the Drawing Buddies as their six year old selves !
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Having seen your 'bird-eye-view' drawings, did you know about the peregrine falcon that nested in the top of Norwich Cathedral in April last year? Theresa from the Baseline Womens Art Group told us about this: here are links and a Webcam showing the bird with her egg. The last webcam is rather sad: be warned!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/home/falcon-cam
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-13186455
http://www.camscape.com/view/33485
Jess