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.

Frailty in Thought

We have a new project which we have been working on for some time now.
Frailty in Thoughts’ will be an evocative atmospheric interactive
exhibition incorporating light, shadow and place.
A visual narrative which invites the visitor on a journey combining art, music, and performance to create a new and dynamic immersive experience based on the French tradition of Son et Lumière.

We are focusing on traditional and folk tales, using certain
characters to explore and respond to perceptions of old age, the fears
for ourselves and our parents that may arise as we look to the future,
and the complex emotions of all those involved.

Frailty of Dreams Performance

Here is some video taken during a rehearsal and the performance.
The whole thing lasted about 10 mins but its cut it down to about 1.
We hope you enjoy it

Our first performance as Shadow Place was The Frailty of Dreams.
at St Mary at the Quay Church, Ipswich, on 26th June at 6.pm for the opening of the Key Arts Show,- Shelf Life for the IpArt Festival, Ipswich

For our performance we were joined by Wendy Rainbow. Wendy is a visual artist and folk singer. She works in paint, print and early photographic processes to produce images about the human condition.
Her current installation works combine both image and song.