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The Nature of the Land
Location: North Yorkshire
The project aims to involve the local community in exploring and researching the way man manages the landscape of the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty through the involvement of community artists. This project will engage a local professional photographer and writer to work closely with one another and local communities and individuals within the AONB over a 12 month period.
The project will investigate through artwork the changing landscape and how man has influenced and formed it, through green woodworking hedge-laying, hedge planting, charcoal burning, drystone walls, wood turning, willow growing. The project will explore the past and present and inform future decisions. Both artists will be consulting with local people who will provide the subject matter for their work, an audiovisual installation.
The project will be launched via an event with talks, demonstrations and hands-on workshops of green woodworking crafts. In addition the artists will run 20 skill-based workshops across the region in photography and all aspects of creative writing. Community work will be produced in the form of a touring exhibition, CD-ROMS, a website and a leaflet. The project will inform a number of regional strategies and provide a useful public record.
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Rural Arts North Yorkshire |
| Project Contact |
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Angela Hayward |
| Address |
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The Old Courthouse, Westgate |
| Project Postcode |
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YO7 1QS |
| Finishing Date |
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31 March 2004 |
| See also |
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Rural Arts North Yorkshire website |
| Local Community Involvement / Partnerships: |
Community workshops will last 2 1/2 days and will start with an introductory presentation by Pat and Tessa about their own work. Participants will then use a range of art forms to produce an artist book inspired by their local environment and using the exhibition and booklet as stimulation. This might be a large village or family book made as a group project, or individual books, or a mixture of both. Participants can use computers, or collage, words and pictures. They will be encouraged to bring in photographs, plants, images etc to use in their books.
This workshop will be repeated in three villages.
The first workshop will take place in Oswaldkirk in late spring/early summer.
The second workshop will take place in Terrington and the third in Howsham. These will take place late summer/ autumn.
These workshops will be marketed at families and are able to accommodate up to 10 adults and any accompanying children. |
| Grants: |
Heritage Lottery Fund: £9630
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