Heres some pictures of the felting in progress...
'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.
Monday, 16 January 2012
Needlefelting progress
Thinking of the garden birds and which might live in the boxes at Cow Tower, we have started to work together on one large felted panel, so far featuring a spotted woodpecker, thrush, robin, bluetit and goldfinch.
Its nice working together on one piece and all becoming more confident with the technique and the emerging outcomes.
Needle felting has also been interesting - it is so simple and effective, practising on our small samples. The process of stamping the fibres repeatedly it a bit birdlike and repetitive: perhaps we should all wear large false beaks whilst we do it?!
Talk is generating around various ideas of developing work to display in the new Charity Shop due to be opened at Baseline: this might be a good way of linking up with the other Spontaneous Community groups?
Its nice working together on one piece and all becoming more confident with the technique and the emerging outcomes.
Needle felting has also been interesting - it is so simple and effective, practising on our small samples. The process of stamping the fibres repeatedly it a bit birdlike and repetitive: perhaps we should all wear large false beaks whilst we do it?!
Talk is generating around various ideas of developing work to display in the new Charity Shop due to be opened at Baseline: this might be a good way of linking up with the other Spontaneous Community groups?
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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