Images from Museums at Night at the London Canal Museum last Saturday night.
There is a fine line between craft and art – I believe the ideas come first, then you find the best techniques to communicate these.
The challange with the stained glass artists books, both for myself and the viewer, is to be able to look beyond the craft techniques and the decorative elements and to see them as vehicles for my artistic ideas.
IRMA
For more pictures go to the facebook album: Museums at Night
Each space makes the work unique and none more so than London canal Museum for the Museums at Night event.
This year I’ll be exhibitng two pulp works and 3 stained glass bookworks, including one new one, Lava. I have chosen a space near the window which will hopefully transform the pieces through a combination of the outside view, and the candle and torchlight.
IRMA
For the second year running the London Canal Museum will be celebrating the Europe-wide festival, Museums at Night. The museum will be candle-lit for the evening, and up to a dozen artists will be showing a wide range of works. Come and see the museum in a totally different light – and meet the artists too!
Saturday 19 May 2012 at 12-13 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RT.
Admission £5 (£4 concessions). 1800-2300.
http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/349682998420667/
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I spent a very exciting and creative two days at St Agnes RC Primary School in Cricklewood earlier this week.
A whole-school schedule was drawn up beforehand which included talks, storyboarding, reading and live drawing, illustration and pop-up book workshops, and an interview with the school newspaper (this was conducted by the wonderful Chelsea and Ziemek from year 5 and 6).
I noticed that year 3 and 4 hadn’t been included in any of the activities, so decided to set them a special challenge. Presenting them with two giant, pop-up, cardboard frameworks, I gave them a brief set of instructions – go off, have a discussion, decide what each construction would become, organise yourselves into working parties and get started. I tried not to influence them in any way but did show them photos of what a previous school had produced and challenged them to beat it.
The final ‘showing assembly’ had representives from each class showing work-in-progress. My aim had been to provide them with a starting point from which to work and they were very successful and creative in developing what I showed them and making it their own.
The giant pop-ups were saved for last and what was revealed was completely unexpected and truly spectacular. I was impressed by the wide variety of materials used (not just paper and card) as well as the incrediable amount of thought and innovative ideas that went into the project, including many techniques that I hadn’t actually shown them. And most astonishingly, both structures (you can see them below) still folded flat. A very moving moment – in all senses of the word!
Our mocked-up designs for the ‘Dressing the Porte Cocheres’ open submission in Milton Keynes. Sadly, not to be, but a very interesting project, nonetheless.
We chose the ideas of dreams and hopes to link various themes and reflect the aspirations of a young city like Milton Keynes. The wishing star and the heart-shaped cloud are symbols intended to convey this – aim for the sky, head in the clouds, reach for the stars, follow your heart - and the sky, depicted both as day and night, was intended to convey creative dreaming, as well as sporting dreams and ambitions. The whole thing was designed to be reproduced using a limted number of stencils.
This week’s Illustration Friday word is vocal. I know a few vocal people, so this one was easy to vusualize. JOHN
Spent yesterday installing new works in the foyer of United House on North Road, Islington – more to follow. IRMA
Work is progressing on my volcano book, number three in a series of stained glass artists’ books. The Volcano Book is also part of a series of works about the environment.
Esprimo il concetto che la forma é articolata dal tempo. La storia rigurgita e si ripete facendo sorgere in natura spontaneamente altre domande (conscienze reali). Cresce così una metamorfosi nuova con la possibilità di evolvere aiutandoci a riflettere. IRMA
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