'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 23 February 2012
Monday 13 February 2012
Potato Day
On a cold day brave gardeners from Norfolk and Suffolk queued to buy seed potatoes. Dano had a stall there and made good contacts with Norfolk Organic Gardeners and many individuals from Norfolk who were asked to adopt a herb. Rosemary, Calendula, Mint and Lovage were adopted. See the website www.adoptaherb.org.uk as the herb collection grows.
Friday 10 February 2012
Branching Out! Getting all three-dimensional
Starting to really have fun now, branching out!
Pauline, Tina, Khateegah, Theresa and Joanne have now got to grips with needle felting with soft materials such as sheep fleece, making small samples of our own, and then a bigger group wall-hanging with differant British birds on: we keep adding to this a little bit each week (Theresa added 2 very nice bees this time).
We are now beginning to transform an upside-down branch (cut, with some difficulty from my garden!) into a wrapped sculpture, with bulging fungi forms growing out of the branch. Good fun and very sociable thing to all do together, using wool scraps, wadding and tights as the main materials. Tina may finally get to make her eagle to add to this, and Sally really wants a peregrine falcon in there to unsettle all the garden birds. It's interesting to make natural-looking forms such as fungi 'grow' and cluster out of the tree, in something of an echo of the mass of the man-made boxes of Spontaneous city.
Next thing will be another sculpture - the group are really keen to have a go at this now: it'll be a tree-like structure, using cardboard tubes wrapped in recycled denim - lots of fun cutting and gluing . Not much sewing thank goodness, because none of us can see well enough to thread the needles - unless we borrow Sally's glasses! Watch this space for pics of this...
Thursday 9 February 2012
Dough Island
Another wonderfully fun and lively session. We had good sized group again, which helped to create a buzzing atmosphere. Sophie made a large batch of salt dough, this combined with bits of fragrant foliage, toy cars and creatures made for a messy squiggy play. Everyone experimented with the dough exploring it's multiple imaginative uses! This including a zoo and motorway and mini mega mounds. As you can see from the images some toddlers even decided to dance on it and hide their feet!
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