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Phyllis Galembo
https://www.galembo.com/projects Its quite tricky finding a compendium of masquerading traditions around the world but I learnt a new phrase this morning, 'second face' thanks to the online museum of cultural masks. We have plenty of examples of these traditions in...
How big can we go
In a recent project at St Ives Library we were exploring our passion for the sea and I set myself the challenge of going large.
Artist Lucy Wright
fusion morris dancing, direct connections to the past https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyWHCHkIt3A/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Jesse Darling
Maypole
‘Pimp my Cornish Clobber’
starts january- Through Artslab we have funding for our first project with Wheal Martyn Museum of the Clay country ‘Category is Cornish work wear’ Young people will explore and select costumes from photographs and garments provided by our museums and...
Portraits of young people by young people
For The Active Looking Project we used mood cards to prompt the design of a mask and discussions about wellbeing. Once again a mix of digital and making skills has proved interesting and popular.
Hidden Faces
The photography of Edward S Curtis, exploring the aboriginal cultures in the USA, feels like people want more of this today
Acting like animals
Giving young people the opportunity to wear a mask has developed their confidence with seeing themselves and each other behind and in front of the lens. Originally I was exploring how we might blank out a models features and or break down emotions as in ancient...
The Wide Awakes
A network of artists helping to create political and social change https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/style/wide-awakes-civil-war-activists.html
Toning cyanotypes
more test prints toned with tea, bleached with soda crystals, enquiring how we can reinvent wet processes to make them sustainable and inclusive