Farewell to Lou and Phoebe

Phoebe pointing to studio door when we first opened
Lou and i are there and somewhere, i have the full photo,
 but that needs another archiving session to find quickly! 

 

NEWS

Farewells - many thanks to Lou Brett and Phoebe Barnicoat for their hard work, inspiration, creativity and support for all, while establishing Shallal's Studio at Krowji, and for all the extra behind the scenes work. We will miss them and are sad to see them go, but wish them all the best for their new ventures which include  https://www.comotionprojects.org/ and we hope to continue working together. Checkout Janet Hollands amazing Hospital Rooms commission that they organised and supported. https://www.instagram.com/p/C6I2XH-oekF/

Studio Use We are trialling opening out access to our Studio space this summer, encouraging artists who can work without support or bring their own support,  to enable artists to develop their own practice, as well as expanding collaborations and explorations across art forms, do contact us if you are interested at present Mondays, Fridays, weekends and evenings are available. to discuss this contact Jo Willis via admin@shallal.org.uk

 Lots going on as ever

 "it was wonderful to have Shallal as a key part of the Winter Festival and I absolutely loved the performance and the artworks involved.

....it was really nice to hear that you had such a good experience with George and Cassie; I know how much working with you and Shallal meant to them and we all look forward to collaborating more in the future!"

needing to share nice email that came in a while ago from Tate StIves .

We had a fun AGM , yes they can be fun!... see our post...https://www.instagram.com/p/C8AqgwlCfNZ/?img_index=1https://www.instagram.com/p/C8AqgwlCfNZ/?img_index=1

Last week I in started at the Studio with the Thursday group a real pleasure to be there.

Kyle is offering to create wonderful bespoke merchandise, bags and tea towels, when he works with Tony Minnion ( Eddies Dad, Redruth Press)

Colin has had his hip operation and should be hopping back soon, meanwhile it's also a joy to cover Friends and Dancing for him and see old friends.

We have a performance coming up on 12 June @ 5.15pm if the weather is fine

some of Shallal 2 and friends 

and a stall there with art work for sale, as the exhibition came down today.

Janice is installing art work from a project at Curnow School.

We have new 'show' coming soon 

and hope to be at Mazey Day, Penzance, Blue Light Day and more!

Isabella Mouse and Friends Exhibition

 

Exhibition info below.

We had a joyful Celebratory Tea Party today with fifteen of us including Lily and Xanthe on zoom from Spain. The exhibition is on for at least three weeks.

Isabella Mouse

Isabella Mouse is a story written by Nicky Harvey and Illustrated by Helen, which you can find on youtube https://youtu.be/moIjkxp2moY?si=wqxKebtCu13 sS93_

It came out from an idea for a project for Shallal Art Connection group when we were thinking about doing Illustration. We immediately thought that Nicky might be a good person to write a story for us.

For the next few months over the hour sessions the artists, who meet on zoom once a week, sat down and started creating wonderful drawings, most of these are included in this exhibition.

Alongside these drawings are Isabella Mouse’s ‘Friends’ more paintings by Nicky’s daughter Lily who was one of the main artists.

Shallal has often been described

as a family and so all the pictures in this exhibition are from the Shallal family, and some of the artists outside the Art Connection have joined in with adding sketches and drawings that you can find in the glass case.

We hope you enjoy it.

Shallal works collaboratively and collectively across a range of art forms and mediums, ages and interests, if you feel like you’d like to join us do get in touch.

We have dedicated this exhibition to Lily’s mother Nicky who sadly passed away earlier this year.

Many thanks to Falmouth Art Gallery who have always been a wonderful supporter of Shallal. Many thanks to Anna Willis without whose help this exhibition wouldn’t have come to fruition, as Lily lives in Spain and we didn’t want ask her to send over original paintings.
Many thanks also to Oliver Raymond Barker who helped us get these and Helen’s images into print.

Some of the work is for sale and there is a list further up at the end of the story on the landing.

www.shallal.org

contact via admin@shallal.org.uk

- “Founded during Lockdown, Shallal's "Connect and Create" group continues to meet on Zoom on Tuesday mornings from 10:30 to 12:30 for an hour of dance followed by an hour of art.

- We work on individual ideas and also group projects, like illustrating the story Isabella Mouse.

- The story was written especially for us by Nicky Harvey and it was a joy to bring her delightful characters to life.

If Isabella Mouse and Friends has inspired you to get creative, contact Shallal and perhaps we will see you on Zoom one Tuesday soon.

We hope you enjoy our exhibition "Isabella Mouse and Friends" inspired by, and in memory of Nicky.”
by Helen

Art Connection welcomes artists, writers, makers and particularly reaches out to those who for any reason can't easily get to in person groups and activities.

Tuesdays
Dance and Art Connection
Dance 10.30 - 11.30
Art 11.30- 12.30
The sessions are informal and encourage participants input and suggestions
they are currently run by two of Shallal's most experienced facilitators:
creative director Jo Willis and community lead facilitator Colin Curbishley to be sent the zoom link contact colin@shallal.org
Sessions are free and donations are encouraged to support Shallal's work https://shallal.org/donate

www.shallal.org 

By leaves we live & Ubuntu

 “This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

https://www.mairimcfadyen.scot/blog/2015/8/2/patrick-geddes

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63382

' Geddes’ main legacy is a legacy of the mind. Pelican in the Wilderness (1956), Silent Spring (1962), Blueprint for Survival (1972), Small is Beautiful (1974) all challenged the squandering of Earth’s resources and the brutality of modern planning and architecture. Geddes was rediscovered, with his mantra ‘Think Global, Act Local’, in time for the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 and he is now the secular saint of the environmental movement.'

Chasing the ideas  of a Third  Way and Person and Community and how to express it and  returned again to Ubuntu

...maybe that is what we are working with...we are asked to evaluate our work and i can't do it the way a medical or social analysis might ask us to, "how do you feel?' 'have you improved', it feels invasive and not what we believe in. We do believe strongly in being alongside people but we hope to open out new vistas, new ways to be, consolidate and expand and i have always said 'we learn from each other' and share and each persons contribution is unique and we don't know the outcome', it is hopefully bigger than ourselves

His legacy is now a general commitment to careful and detailed survey of the problem, to the generation of an individual solution to an individual problem, to the genuine involvement of the people affected, in the planning and execution.

https://patrickgeddestrust.co.uk/vision/

 ...which entities aspiring to the description "man " must have, the African view of man denies that persons can be defined by focusing on this or that physical or psychological characteristic of . the lone individual . Rather, man is defined by reference to the environing community . As John Mbiti notes, the African view of the person can be summed up in this statement : " I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am . " '

https://universityofsaintthomas.github.io/sjlaumakis/reading%203-african%20view.pdf

There are many different (and not always compatible) definitions of what Ubuntu is.^[7] Even with the various definitions, Ubuntu encompasses the interdependence of humans on another and the acknowledgment of one's responsibility to their fellow humans and the world around them. It is a philosophy that supports collectivism over individualism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy

Next exhibition on it's way! ...'Isabella Mouse and friends' at Falmouth Art Gallery Community Gallery, 13 May

 Next exhibition on it's way!

and as i was wandering around collecting information for an email i realised Lily Harvey doesn't have an artists profile with Shallal on our website, she did on our old site. Lily works on Zoom with us not 'in' the studio, as she lives in Spain, but the other Saturday she was in the studio on zoom with Shallal Sketchbooks. 

Lily is a wonderful artist so i thought i would give her a quick spotlight and also let you know you can see some of her work made into prints in our next show.

Lily works in textiles, animation and clay as well as painting and drawing.

May 13th Falmouth Art Gallery Community Gallery

with work by Lily Harvey, Colin Curbishley, Bobby Johnson, Helen and Therese and more!

'Isabella Mouse'

The story is written and narrated by Lily's mother Nicky who died a few months ago, so the show is dedicated to her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moIjkxp2moY

Helen did the illustrations to this.

 

Reflection and Co-Motion CIC

 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

John Miller  https://www.messums.com/artists/view/49/John_Miller

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!

'Passing on Passmore Party' credits and cards!

 

Passing on Passmore Party

Dancers/performers

Shallal2 

Maz Bryant

Peter Kirby

Jo Lumber

Rita 

Demelza Rouncefield

Becky Smith

Miles Stead

Shallal Dance Theatre

Toby Bridge

Tina Butler 

Eddie Callis

Caroline Coleman

Kyle Coleman`

Colin Curbishley

Mads De Lord

Linda Feeron

Katherine Giddings

Kerry Jackson

Jo Lumber 

Kerry Tomlins

Deborah Udy O'Nyons

All the choreography is spontaneous improvisation by the dancers in the moment.

All writing by the performers

Backstage/ transport co-ordination and so much more: Colin Curbishley

Creative director: Jo Willis

Thank you to Falmouth Art Gallery.

'New Beginnings’

Shallal2

Music

Seize the day - Wax Tailor, Charlotte Savary

Rue de Trois Frères - Fabrizio Pateline

Without The Context of the Multitude? - Rzekomo

If My Love Was A Guitar - Tom Adams

New Beginnings Bureau, written and performed by  Jo Lumber 

British Sign Language BSL - Jan Tillyard

Presentation to Glynn Winchester representing

https://falmouthandpenrynwelcome.org

'Passing on Passmore'

Shallal Dance Theatre

The Ballard of Passmore Edwards by Toby Bridge

Lighthouse poem by Eddie and Kerry

The Grand Opening. Water for All by Jo Lumber

Grain Moon by Olivia Belli

The Hour is Late by Debbie Udy O'Nyons

Contagious Heart by Kerry Tomlins

P. Weiner - Happy Birthday Variations (Arr. POSTECH Orchestra)

( Strauss, Rossini, Dvorak)

Presentation to

Daisy representing https://falmouthfood.coop/

and a 'medal' to

Chinks Grylls for visiting all 20 Cornish Passmore Edwards Buildings

by bike in 2023

https://shallal-arts.blogspot.com/2023/09/passmore-edwards-bicentenary-cycling.html

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Falmouth & Penryn Welcome Refugees 

aims to help people whose lives have been devastated by war and climate change

Falmouth Food Coop

    Grocery, Kitchen and Loveland.

Let's make good food available for all! 

The Passmore Edwards Legacy 

https://thepassmoreedwardslegacy.org.uk/

“He did more good in his time than almost any other of his contemporaries”
The Times 24 April 1911

“From a humble home in a little Cornish village he became a City journalist, MP for Salisbury, Editor of a leading London newspaper, life-long champion of the working classes and is remembered as being a Benefactor Extraordinary.” (R S Best 1981.)