Sitting after a lovely morning doing Shallal Sketchbooks at the Studio.
The joy of meeting up:
"We just wanted to say thank you for the Sketchbooks workshop this morning - we really enjoyed it!
It was lovely to see you, and to meet Zo and Katie in person.
....... and look forward to seeing you on Zoom on Tuesday."
and reflecting on all that has gone on...
Dean Evans has asked me how often we have been out with Passmore Puppets and it was fourteen events at the last count!
We are dreaming of how to consolidate and build on all that happened in the Bicentennial. Passing on Passmore.
There never seems like a 'right' time for some news and so we are starting to let people know that dear Lou and Phoebe who have been running ( and inspiring and organising and supporting and writing funding and more and more ) the Studio are moving on to other things, Phoebe after April and Lou sometime in June. They will be concentrating on their own art practices and their new Co-motion CIC, https://www.comotionprojects.org/ working with Eden Harrison https://shallal.org/people/eden-harrison
It looks fantastic! we wish them well and look forward to working with them in the future.
Lou and Phoebe are leaving on high after organising the wonderful DIY Fashion Show, we are meeting soon to chat and after that i hope to do a fuller blog thanking them for all they have done.
We will miss them but hope to bring on other artists and their visions and skills.
The Shallal Studio will continue and we are re-imagining and assessing it. We hope to increase use and activities, so do get in touch if you have any ideas! I had a good chat with Amy recently and we have some plans we hope to hatch! I am starting now talking to others throughout Shallal about it and dusting off some old ideas I'd like to try out and seeing how transferable are our approaches from 10 years of Back Lane West Residencies - our work at the Tate came from a residency 'play day'.
I love and apreciate this world of Play and Therese was saying yesterday how you can achieve more in a group project or in company. Lots to think about and finally i love buses ( when it works) £4 total cost for my journey and wonderful views over hedges all the way!
Starting to warble on....
Thank you as ever to all the artists who make up Shallal and to my family, who in rocky times keep me straight on vision! They have heard me rant on for long enough, my daughters helped me last night when i was musing over art and labels, and it comes from my mother who listened to me many years ago when i first met Michael who lived with Miss Oddie and whose life was open and yet terribly limited in some ways - that story is for another day.
But many thanks to everyone who has got us this far.
Shallal /this approach /ethos is essentially an outlook on how we work with and respect each other and that is independent of any structure, and each person adds to it, and it will survive as it's in the people - i had to work this out to reassure me - as we have nearly closed three or four times so far in our history!!:
THANK YOU
Ethos
My Mother
Wolfgang Stange https://www.amicidance.org/about/drop2-2
Father Benedict https://www.comae.org.uk/about-us/our-story/
Peter Bevan who i lived with as CSV in the first independent community house
Diana Morris Newlyn Art Gallerys' first education outreach officer and our volunteer administrator
Tim Churchman - dancer Shallal
a volunteer at Winged Fellowship Trust
all the amazing carers/nurses and all who contribute to Shallal
I met all these in formative years in my 20's, now i'm over reflective at 61!
No comments:
Post a Comment