Youth and Community Arts for the High Peak
Sadly, after 14 years, current funding for Project eARTh has finished, so the project is on pause until or if more funding can be secured.
Participants worked with artist Carol Wilson to make individual felted squares on an Autumn theme – to include wet felting and then embellishing the work with embroidery. To start the project, everyone made a small square inspired by the traditional felting of Kyrgystan.
We are having songwriting workshops with Claire Mooney, to write a song about Project eARTh.
We have been playing around with poetry and lyrics , and having fun in the process – quite a challenge to write a collective song with about 20 people, but so far the ‘band ‘ have not fallen out!
Relief metal work sculpture for Brookfield Pond. We are busy working with artist Adele Kime to create artwork for the railing on Brookfield Pond on Reservoir Road, Whaley Bridge. We will be working in aluminium and copper and are learning the different techniques we can use.
We made wonderful willow sculptures of Alice, The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, a Teapot and Dormouse – all for our 40th Anniversary Tea Parties this summer – and then a permanent home in the gardens of Primrose Court ( sheltered housing in Hayfield). We worked with artist Juliette Hamilton and had great fun – it was very addictive and hard to stop weaving at 1pm. [Read more…]
Also for our Tea Parties, we made a set of ceramic mugs and plates each one commemorating a different project from High Peak Community Arts’ past 40 years. Working with artist Caroline Chouler- Tisser, we had a lovely time exploring old photos to use as decal transfers. Here are some in their early stages ….and a few of the finished tea service…
Participants worked with artist Amanda Whewell to create silk paintings as a wall hanging for Spring Bank Arts, inspired by Charles Kempe’s stained glass windows. We made 5 hangings for the windows of the Ingham’s Room, plus an accompanying book featuring smaller silk pieces, and participants’ sketches and notes.
They look stunning. [Read more…]
Participants worked with artist Caroline Chouler- Tissier to create ceramic birds for Reuben’s Retreat, the Glossop charity who are renovating the old Woods Hospital and working to relieve the distress of families who have suffered the bereavement of a child or have a child suffering from a life-limiting/threatening illness. [Read more…]
Participants worked with artist Amanda Whewell to create a New Mills themed community altar frontal, using ‘kantha’ embroidery and tie-dye. This was unveiled in July by Ruth George MP and the High Peak Mayor, Cllr Linda Grooby. We all think it looks fantastic. [Read more…]
Participants at New Mills Project eARTh worked with artist Caroline Chouler Tissier on 2 large welcome signs that will be placed in the Community Field at Furness Vale in the High Peak. Taking inspiration from the surrounding environment, and how local residents can use the park, the designs will be a rich mixture of those drawn into the clay; built on as relief pieces; and created by drawings and photos used as de-cal transfers.