Saturday, 29 June 2013
Unravelled, A Short film about the exhibition process
A short film about the exhibition "Unravelled" , exploring the stories behind chinese silk, curated by Illuminate, Nottingham Museums Young Arts Collective and project co-ordinated as part of my role as Illuminate Team Leader.
Unravelled from Illuminate on Vimeo.
Unravelled from Illuminate on Vimeo.
Beauty from Different Directions 8th Sept 2012
Beauty from Different Directions saw the accumilation of the summers hard work.
As well as the Cultural Catwalk performance we also launched the new Loan box "Precious Treasures" and had the Media team on hand to film and document the days events.
Here's how the day unfolded...
We all arrived bright and early to set up the dancer's sites and help them get into costume...
Photos by Sian Stammers
We had three performances planned for the day, one at 1.15, 1.15 and 3.00. The 8th was part of the Heritage Open Weekend, which meant Castle entry was free. It was
also the start of the WEYA festival, with saw 1000 artists from around the world coming together for the week to show work.
The Performance
At 1.00 our two Dohl drummers, Nick and Ajay started to drum, drawing the crowd towards the Bandstand.
Photo by Graham Lucas Commons
Hayley then danced her way, in costume, down the path from the Castle towards the bandstand.
Photo by Sian Stammers
She was helped into costume by members of the Illuminate group, hidden behind her huge skirt and Xiao Ling began playing the chinese harp as Hayley danced.
Photo by Graham Lucas Commons
After the dance, the drummers lead the promenade up to the Castle,
Photo by Graham Lucas Commons
Through the Museum and up the stairs past Georgia and Cherry, our Illuminate Window Ledge Dancers
Photo by Graham Lucas Commons
Photo by Sian Stammers
and in to the Long Gallery, where Conrad and Jen performed amongst the galleries paintings to music from Blockwerk Orchestra, a sound piece by Tom Hill and Noel Murphy that had been commissioned the year before.
Photos by Graham Lucas Commons
We had an amazing day, with around 1000 people overall seeing the performances. It was brilliant to see all our hard work come together and to celebrate our Stories of the World project. As a group we have achieved and learnt a lot over the past year, planning and curating the "Unravelled" exhibition and running events to accompany it. We all feel very honoured to have been given such an opportunity by Nottingham City Museums and Galleries.
As well as the Cultural Catwalk performance we also launched the new Loan box "Precious Treasures" and had the Media team on hand to film and document the days events.
Here's how the day unfolded...
We all arrived bright and early to set up the dancer's sites and help them get into costume...
We had three performances planned for the day, one at 1.15, 1.15 and 3.00. The 8th was part of the Heritage Open Weekend, which meant Castle entry was free. It was
also the start of the WEYA festival, with saw 1000 artists from around the world coming together for the week to show work.
The Performance
At 1.00 our two Dohl drummers, Nick and Ajay started to drum, drawing the crowd towards the Bandstand.
Hayley then danced her way, in costume, down the path from the Castle towards the bandstand.
She was helped into costume by members of the Illuminate group, hidden behind her huge skirt and Xiao Ling began playing the chinese harp as Hayley danced.
After the dance, the drummers lead the promenade up to the Castle,
Through the Museum and up the stairs past Georgia and Cherry, our Illuminate Window Ledge Dancers
and in to the Long Gallery, where Conrad and Jen performed amongst the galleries paintings to music from Blockwerk Orchestra, a sound piece by Tom Hill and Noel Murphy that had been commissioned the year before.
We had an amazing day, with around 1000 people overall seeing the performances. It was brilliant to see all our hard work come together and to celebrate our Stories of the World project. As a group we have achieved and learnt a lot over the past year, planning and curating the "Unravelled" exhibition and running events to accompany it. We all feel very honoured to have been given such an opportunity by Nottingham City Museums and Galleries.
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Beauty From Different Directions, Illuminate
last summer I project managed a fashion and textile project with Illuminate (Nottingham Museums Young Arts Collective). The project aimed to compliment their exhibition of Chinese Textiles which was being shown at Nottingham Castle.
The group wanted to look at the way different cultures had influenced fashion and clothing today and to create a series of costumes that reflected this. We wanted these costumes to be worn by dancers in specific locations around the castle site as part of a promenande performance echoing ideas of the silk route as well as the personal journey that may have bought these fabrics to Britian.
As a group we started by looking at textiles and clothing from our own cultures. We wanted to create costumes that showed a range of Cultural influences, we decided to work with textile artist Nadim Chaudry whose own work uses a wide range of fabrics to explore cultural and personal themes.
Looking at textiles from our own cultures
Meeting Nadim
We decided to create four costumes and got into groups to plan and design each one.
The Costumes were-
The Long Gallery Costumes, inspired by Yinka Shonibare, Vivienne Westwood and the paintings in the Long Gallery, there were to have a playful and more traditionally European feel.
The bandstand, the most amibitious costume, inspired by Caroline Broadhead, the costume also represented Chinese culture in particular the story of the pheonix.
The Staircase costume, this was to be more tribal and earthy a costume, we took the wrought iron leaves of the window guard as a starting point for these costumes.
A group of about 12 young people from the Illuminate group spent 10 days creating the Costumes. Most detail about the project cand be found on the Illuminate blog, Illuminate-collective@blogspot.co.uk.
The group wanted to look at the way different cultures had influenced fashion and clothing today and to create a series of costumes that reflected this. We wanted these costumes to be worn by dancers in specific locations around the castle site as part of a promenande performance echoing ideas of the silk route as well as the personal journey that may have bought these fabrics to Britian.
As a group we started by looking at textiles and clothing from our own cultures. We wanted to create costumes that showed a range of Cultural influences, we decided to work with textile artist Nadim Chaudry whose own work uses a wide range of fabrics to explore cultural and personal themes.
Looking at textiles from our own cultures
Meeting Nadim
We decided to create four costumes and got into groups to plan and design each one.
The Costumes were-
The Long Gallery Costumes, inspired by Yinka Shonibare, Vivienne Westwood and the paintings in the Long Gallery, there were to have a playful and more traditionally European feel.
The bandstand, the most amibitious costume, inspired by Caroline Broadhead, the costume also represented Chinese culture in particular the story of the pheonix.
The Staircase costume, this was to be more tribal and earthy a costume, we took the wrought iron leaves of the window guard as a starting point for these costumes.
A group of about 12 young people from the Illuminate group spent 10 days creating the Costumes. Most detail about the project cand be found on the Illuminate blog, Illuminate-collective@blogspot.co.uk.
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