Friday at Blackthorp barns

went well... here are some pics

Suffolk Open Studios- Annual Showcase Exhibition, 14th May 6-8pm at Blackthorp Barn, Roughham near Bury st Edmunds

Ooohhhh!! we are doing our experimental piece next Friday at the Suffolk Open Studios Annual Showcase Exhibition, 14th May 6-8pm, at Blackthorp Barn, Roughham near Bury st Edmunds (A14 Junction 45)
Its supposed to go from dusk to dark... but it might not be very dark,- still..
its in a huge meadow.- The week after we will be performing it again in a very tiny space. What fun eh!

Tripping

Alice represents the romance of the innocent child, the screen for Carroll’s fantasy projections, a cipher for the thrill of mind altering substances at once weirdly eroticised, intellectualised, sublimated. What if she wants the drugs and adventure, says spare me your fears of death and desire, the limits of your imagination so afraid of the devouring and the control? The big bad world is a dangerous place for girls, lies, all lies and fabrication, the queen of hearts a troll. Seduced by sleep, drugged and hallucinating, Alice falls and falls and follows and falls, eat me, drink me, identity crisis one two three.

with my figurative work focusing on the the expression of emotion through the physicality and sequence of motion, my intension is to bring movement - possibly via line to this project. by using bread and stones hanzel and gretel marked the uncertainty of their passage into the unknown, how would we retrace the physical patterns of our emotional histories? a starting point.......

Down the rabbit hole

Alice's adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865, a small, still-pastoral tale at once mad, moral and pedagogic for children, and clever and knowing for adults. Smack in the middle of a decade that would be marked out as the moment when modernism gathered momentum it nonetheless looks back at a mythical English past as represented by childhood. You can hear between the lines the crunching gears of modernity; a smugness in the clever dick rationality and superiority of Man; a parallel to the Victorian idealisation of Woman and the reality that you could buy a 13 year old girl for £5.

Alice is fearless in the face of the many and varied challenges to her identity and cleverness - she is not master of this or any other universe. The question is, does she remember any of this when she grows up? How could she possibly forget.

My contribution to Frailty in thought will be to make a work about Alice's adult point of view on the adventures in which she found herself.

last nights meeting

Last night was lovely, a very relaxed lively chat and discussion that covered life, the universe and everything and played around at the edges of our project too.- We are really gelling as a group.
We looked at the Pulse application and decided to go for 4th and 5th June (Fri and Sat) 8pm - 10pm (sunset is around 9)

we will work on the pieces here before the 14 May showing at Blackthorpe barn and after that we can make more work/change it/ develop it as we like.... that's all we got to so far.oooh very exciting.

A new year and its full steam ahead

We have a great team on board now, Meetings are getting exciting and ideas are flowing. We are hoping to keep it all flexible and allow room for the event to grow and change. We hope to show our event at Pulse,- an arts festival in Ipswich, and the Suffolk Open Studios opening in May.
We decided to be enigmatic in any press release and blurb.....
as a general cover all we came up with-

Shadow Place - an artist collaboration presents

Frailty in Thought

An atmospheric event taking place from dusk to darkness.