John Street Open Studios Maggie Shaw painting; The Art of Westley Farming Kate Raggett installation; Thinking about... trees Richard Keating; The End Barney and Lucy Heywood
| John
Street Open Studios |
Thinking about...trees | The End |
| Saturday 13th-Sunday
14th June Saturday 20th-Sunday 21st June 11am-6pm Stroud Valleys Artspace, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA |
Stratford Park, Stroud Saturday 20th June 10am-12.30pm, 2pm-4.30pm w: walkingtheland.org.uk |
Friday June
12th 8pm Stroud Valleys Artspace, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA |
| SVA studio members will be opening their spaces to the public. Visitors will be encouraged to fully explore the studio working environment and to engage with artists in conversation. The studios provide a collaborative working environment and home for artist groups including Quercus, artNucleus, Studio Seven and Unit 4. Jamila Lamrani, a Moroccan-based artist will in be residence at SVA during the festival. This project is part of the Inhabit International Artists Residency Scheme funded by the Arts Council. Jamila Lamrani makes installations and sculptures which explore the tensions and textures of materials to reveal relationships between symmetry and dissymmetry, balance and imbalance, the laws of gravitation and upward attraction. This is a great opportunity to see what takes place at SVA and find out more about the future plans. | Walking the Land artists
invite you to join them in making art work that celebrates,
reflects and responds to the trees in the
tree collection in Stratford Park. As part
of an ongoing study and observation of
how artists and non-artists value trees,
Walking the Land offer support in studying
the trees, considering their biology,
aesthetics and cultural significance and in
identifying what it is about them that
resonates with us.
Using these studies you will be
encouraged to complete a piece of work
on the day that can be incorporated into
a temporary 'Tree Gallery in the Park'.
In addition, a selection of the resulting
artworks will form an exhibition to be
arranged later in the year and also feature
on Walking the Land's website eGallery.
Participants will need to bring their
own choice of materials, cameras and
equipment. Free For booking tel: 01452 812224 & 01453 756064 |
A short
film by Barney and Lucy Heywood shot
in a single static take in an entirely fabricated set. With photographs
from the shoot by Sam Hofman.
"I live my whole life in this place. I know
this town and the forest better than the
veins on the back of my hand, and yet I am
feeling, here, I don't belong."
Ernest Samson is trapped by a rare
condition that causes him to speak in a
foreign accent. Alienated by his fellow
elderly residents, he finds the familiar
landscape of home has been altered and
his precious memories corrupted.
His saviour comes in the unlikely form
of Amir, a young Muslim care worker who
reveals an unexpected affinity with
Ernes's situation and offers him a key to
the peace he so desires. The End is about home, limbo and self discovery. next >>> |