10/02/2010 by James.

Please share the following information with any 14 to 19 yr olds you know of in the Stonehenge/Salisbury/surrounding areas, who may be interested in this exciting opportunity to advise English Heritage on the development of the new Visitor Centre and learning/outreach programmes.

Thank you!

STONEHENGE YOUNG PEOPLE’S PANEL

WHAT?

English Heritage at Stonehenge needs the options of young people to decide how to make their new Visitor Centre an interesting and fun place to visit in the future.

WHO?

Young people from 14-19 years old, who are interested in design, archaeology, or the environment, in sharing their opinions and having something different on their CV.

HOW?

We want to hold on Open Meeting, and four Young People’s Panel sessions, based at Salisbury Museum, with visits to Stonehenge and other local venues.

Open Meeting:

The open meeting will give you a chance to see artists’ impressions of the new Visitor Centre, handle artefacts, explore the Museum and give ideas on what needs to happen next. If you decide to become part of the panel you can sign up for that here too.

Panel Sessions:

At each session there will be a different theme and content – such as meeting the architects, designing interactive exhibits, and exploring how we can make facilities more environmentally sustainable.

The Young People’s Panel is free. Local transport costs will be paid and refreshments will be provided for all of the four panel sessions.

WHEN?

Open Meeting:

Saturday 13^th February at Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum, Cathedral Close, Salisbury, 10.30am to 12.30pm (just turn up, no need to book).

Panel Sessions:

Saturday 27^th February, 20^th March, 17^th April, 8^th May at Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum, 10.15am to 12.45pm (sign up for your place at the Open Meeting).

It is hoped that the panel sessions will continue after this initial project.

For more information please contact James Aldridge:

Email: info@creative-ecology.co.uk Telephone: 07931 407 186

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23/10/2009 by James.

I’ve just dropped off Wonder in Salisbury. Its one of the drawings onto maps that I did earlier this year, and is going to be shown as part of this open entry drawing exhibition at Salisbury Arts Centre from 2nd November to 12 December.

The exhibition is open Tuesday to Friday 9.30 to 5.00 p.m. and Saturdays 9.30 to 4.00 p.m.

I’ve just been having a look at the work of the other artists involved online, there’s 22 of us altogether from across the country, with a real mix of styles and approaches.

For more info and how to find it go to - www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/visualarts.aspx

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15/10/2009 by James.

I’m doing some teaching as a visiting lecturer on this course. Its ideal for anyone looking to get into working in a participatory way in the arts. Here’s some more info from UWE and a link to the course pages…

 Graduate Certificate in Participatory Arts and Media Professional Practice

Earlier this year UWE launched new accredited continuing professional development courses aimed at arts graduates or those working in any art form with groups in education, healthcare or the community sectors.

Apply now! For the second module in Participatory Arts: Methods and Approaches -
Open for applications on the 19th October and closing on the 20th November 2009.

Each twelve week course is designed to fit around the practitioners’ lives and work, participants can take three modules in any order over the three years to obtain the Certificate, or take just one or two of the modules for their own personal development.

We’ve even found a way for you to get up to 50% off the price this year!
find out more at -

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/courses/community_cpd.shtml?mxmroi=14861901/2237193/false

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14/10/2009 by James.

Yesterday myself and Laura, the education officer from Salisbury Museum, ran the last of these creative family learning sessions at Kiwi School.

As you might know by now, we have been exploring the Stonehenge landscape and its ancient and military history and using mark-making to document and reflect on our experiences.

On this last session, Laura talked to the families about the beaker pots that are sometimes found in the barrows linked with Stonehenge, and we explored outside to find our own tools to make marks into clay.

We also got messy with acrylic paints, exploring the sensory qualities of the paint, mixing colour, and drawing on the last few sessions to create work inspired by Stonehenge and its surroundings.

Its been a great project to run with the Museum, and brilliant to see so many of the mums (as well as their children) get fired up by experimenting freely with creative materials, and learning about this ancient site almost on their doorstep.

In January we’ll be putting up an exhibition at the Museum, sharing images and artwork from across the project, showing how the creative activities, the artefacts provided by the museum and the National Trust, and the visits to the landscape itself, have all come together to support each family to gain something different from the project and its free, responsive approach.

Keep an eye on the museum website for more information on the exhibition, due to run from January to March 2010…. www.salisburymuseum.org.uk

 ( sunset through the stones by Daisy )

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03/10/2009 by James.

Just a quick one to confirm that the venue for this exhibition is the Proud Camden Gallery, Stables Market, Chalk Farm Rd, London NW1 8AH

A few people were unsure where it was happening. For more information on the exhibition please see the exhibition website - www.mencap.org.uk/dayofthedead

For information on the venue see - www.proudcamden.com

Hope that helps!

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16/09/2009 by James.

Here are some links to information on the other artists involved, and associated cultural events running alongside the exhibition and fundraising auction, for which I was invited to make a piece of work.

General info on the Mencap Website 

On Matthew Williamson’s contribution in the Pink Paper

Albert’s Shirt (detail) - my piece for Dia de los Muertos

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03/09/2009 by James.

Here’s some information for your diaries on the Dia de los Muertos exhibition and auction; raising funds for the charity from the sale of artwork made by a group of invited artists, and based on the Mexican ‘Day of the Dead’ festival.

As you can see from the list of artists involved, mine will probably be a little more affordable than the rest.

Exhibition dates - 27th October to the 1st November 11.00 a.m to 5.00 p.m at The Proud Gallery, Camden

Artwork available to buy via the Mencap website, from the exhibition or by auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge on 11th November

Other artists exhibiting include -  Craigie Aitchison, Tracey Emin, Gillian Ayres OBE, Martin Parr, David Birkin, Matthew Williamson, John Keane, Hilary Simon, Roberto Gonzalez Fernandez (RGF + DDT), Carlos Diez Bustos, David Trullo and Stephen Wright

Should be a wide range of interpretations on the theme, so worth a look even if you can’t afford to buy…

More info nearer the time on the Mencap website

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28/08/2009 by James.

Just framed my work for this exhibition. For more/larger information and directions, see the link below…

http://www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk/gallery.html

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29/07/2009 by James.

Here’s a couple of images from new, larger, map-based pieces that I’m working on. I’m still exploring the relationship between a sensing body and the wider environment of which it is a part, the experience of moving through such an environment, and how to document/share that experience or at least point to it in some way.

These latest larger pieces, although still very much in development, seem to begin to hint at something more too… something beyond the usual fragments of experience that I explore and express in my work, towards a larger, more cohesive picture of that experience - something spiritual and beyond human scale.

I also went to an exhibition at the Winchester Discovery Centre this week, an installation by artist Andrew Carnie using projection onto hanging gauze or muslin, with the imagery projected alternately from both sides, through layers of the hanging fabric. Although very different in approach, there’s something about these two that links them, the focus on bodily and creative experience, and the representation of the figure as if floating in space, surrounded, held and lifted.

exhibition info here… http://www3.hants.gov.uk/wdc/city-space.htm

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23/07/2009 by James.

I will be showing Pieces of the Puzzle (below) at the Open View Exhibition in Bath from Sat 19th to Sat 26th September at The Bath Artists Studios Gallery, The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place, Upper Bristol Rd, BA1 3AJ.

For a map see -  www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk/contactfind-us.html

The exhibition is a selling group-exhibition organised by BANA, the Bath Area Network for Artists, and will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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