Following her residency with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Nikki Pugh has put together a comprehensive summary of her time with us including thoughts and images from walks around Corby, Brigstock and Gretton, plus a workshop with Gretton Primary School.
You can read it in full at
http://npugh.co.uk/tag/fermynwoods/
or in chapters at:
Brookfield Plantation walk with David Craddock
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Our Spring 2012 bulletin features ‘Traces; Walking and Drawing’, with artist Nikki Pugh including a series of walks as part of the Corby Walking Festival 2012.
Our current Open Online exhibition is profiled, whilst the bulletin also gives you the latest news on the developments to our Sudborough Green Lodge site, plus a look back to last seasons installations and performances.
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You can also read all of our previous bulletins here or on Issuu here
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As part of the Corby Walking Festival 2012, artsit Nikki Pugh will be leading walks that allow the public to explore the use of aquired GPS data as a way to understand and see the effect of open terrain, building presence and the natural effect of the environment whilst walking through the landscape to create drawings.
During a residency with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Pugh will be exploring the landscapes of Fermyn Woods, Corby and the surrounding area through the view of GPS technology.
The events will run from 5 to 7 of May 2012.
5 May 2012 – from 11.00am until approximately 1pm
Join Pugh for an exploratory walk around the centre of Corby, exploring open space and key architectural highlights from both the steel town’s past and recent developments. Collaborate in navigating an object through the environment as it reacts with movement and the locations it passes through, before sharing the resulting drawing, a digital cartography of the morning’s walk. Departing from outside the Corby Cube, George Street, Corby, NN17 1QG.
Parking is available outside Corby Cube.
6 May 2012 – from 9.30am
Pugh will join rambler David Craddock for a leisurely walk via the Brookfield Plantation and Rockingham. Participate in the walk wearing a responsive sash making present an intimate connection between walking and the effect of the landscape on global positioning systems. The approximately 8 mile route is part urban and part rural, departing from Gretton Village Hall, Kirby Road, Gretton, NN17 3DB.
Limited free parking is available outside the Village Hall.
7 May 2012 – from 2.00pm
Pugh will lead participants over a 3 mile route from Fermyn Woods Country Park to Lyveden New Bield, previously explored through our Encounters programme. The walk will encompass dense forest, open fields and along the historic Lyveden Way to Lyveden New Bield and it’s Elizabethan garden. Wearing Pugh’s specially designed responsive sashes, experience the walk through the lens of GPS technology, before sharing the resulting drawing.
Departing from Skylark Café, Fermyn Woods Country Park, Lyveden Road, Brigstock, Kettering NN14 3HS. A minibus will be available to take participants who wish back to Fermyn Woods Country Park.
Parking is available at both Fermyn Woods Country Park and Lyveden New Bield.
All walks are free and do not require advance booking. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the walk departs for registration and to receive a briefing on the walk ahead.
No CommentsAhead of Nikki Pugh’s walking events with Fermyn Woods, you are invited to join Nikki in mapping some of the possibilities that emerge through the use and application of her objects as part of Possibility Probe.
Sessions taking place on Thursday 26 of April:
13:00 – 14:30
15:30 – 17:00
18:00 – 19:00
Meet at ARTicle gallery, The School of Art, Birmingham City University, Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BX.
To confirm your place, sign up at http://heavyobjectbham.eventbrite.co.uk/
This takes place as part of ‘And Miles to Go Before I Sleep…’, a presentation of four distinct artistic practices. Gene George Earle, Trevor Pitt, Nikki Pugh and Adam Smythe. The title is taken from the poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, by the American writer Robert Frost, as a metaphor for the durational endeavour and journey inherent in artistic production.
This exhibition presents a pause or moment in that journey and shows us not necessarily completed or finished work, but a transitory phase in the generation and exploration of ideas at a given time.
The artists shown are currently participating in the Artists Access 2 Art Colleges scheme at The School of Art, Birmingham.
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Yesterday evening saw the launch of an exhibition of work by students from William Knibb Complementary Education Centre. Students from the centre have been working with artists in Fermyn Woods, exploring the forest through the prism of each of the artist’s practices.
The exhibition, held at The Castle in Wellingborough, was the culmination of the work produced over the 2010-2011 academic year. The exhibition runs until 30 March 2012.
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As an ongoing project with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, a group of Key Stage 3 students from the William Knibb Complementary Education Centre worked with 6 Contemporary Artists over the 2010-2011 academic year, exploring Fermyn Woods through their understanding of each of the Artist’s practice.
The Artists were:
Kenneth James Martin (Large Format Photography)
Rebecca Lee (Sound)
Kate Dyer & Lorraine Dziarkowska from Corby Community Arts (Digital Photography)
Simon Woolham (Film)
Susie Turner (Printmaking)
The exhibition presents the resulting work by the students, in the form of photography, photobooks, sound, video, drawing, and a variety of printmaking techniques.
PRIVATE VIEW: TUESDAY 6 MARCH 2012, 5 – 7 PM
EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL FRIDAY 30 MARCH 2012, 10AM – 8PM
Gallery and Exhibition Wall
The Castle
Castle Way
Wellingborough
NN8 1XA
Acclaimed British artist and NESTA Fellow Jo Fairfax and his team present HERO, a free laser-light art installation within the Grade I listed park at Boughton House, Kettering:
25-26 February and 3-4 March 2012 from 6.30 – 8.30 PM.
HERO is the latest in a series of installations and events as part of FLOW, the outdoor contemporary visual arts programme across Northamptonshire.
Laser beams will be centrally aligned above the canalised River Ise which runs through the parkland,
the sharp horizontal lines complementing the geometry of the 300 year old waterscape designed by
Dutch landscape gardener Van der Meulen, creating some beautiful reflections and intriguing visual
perspectives for the visitor.
For further information please contact:
Graham Callister, Northamptonshire County Council
T: 01604 236909
E: gcallister@northamptonshire.gov.uk
This follows a growing series of FLOW events, including Fermynwoods’ Interchange project on the Grand Union Canal and River Nene.
No CommentsFermynwoods Contemporary Art are pleased to announce that works by the following artists have been selected for our second online open exhibition, focusing on sound based works, which is now live.
Sarah Boothroyd (Canada)
- All In Time
Desiree D’Alessandro (USA)
- World Water Shortage Vs Golf Course Consumption
Moon Young Ha (USA/South Korea)
- Amorphisms
Anthoney J Hart (UK)
- A Temporal Interval
Wittwulf Y Malik (Germany)
- The Sound Of Light – 7 Meditations
Jessica Rowland (UK)
- Syncopation
Adam Stansbie (UK)
- Escapade
Joe Stevens (UK)
- Thunder / Umm And That Was Quite Nice
Sue Tarbitten (UK)
- The Language Of Cloth
FCA would like to thank artist George Barber and Matt Davenport, artist and Head of Media Arts, Broadway for their assistance in selecting the artists for this exhibition.
No CommentsCall for Artist Submissions
We are now inviting artists to submit work for our second Online Open Exhibition,
15 Nov 2011 – 14 Nov 2012
We would like artists to submit sound based work or visualisations of sound, which would be suitable for presentation over the internet.
In line with our funding guidelines, all work must be original, should not infringe the copyright or other rights belonging to any third party and should not be defamatory, blasphemous or obscene.
The submissions will be judged by:
Artist George Barber,
Matt Davenport, Artist and Head of Media Arts, Broadway, Nottingham,
plus Fermynwoods Staff.
To Apply
Please send a clearly labeled CD/DVD of the work, together with a completed application form to the office address, or email the work file and form to: info@fermynwoods.co.uk
Most formats will be acceptable – we will contact you if we are unable to open the file.
Please do not submit master copies and include a self-addressed envelope if you would like the disc returned.
Deadline
Monday 24 October 2011 (5pm for postal entries).
Fees
There are no submission fees and selected artists will receive a small exhibition fee.
Exhibition
Open Online Two will be live from 15 November 2011 to 14 November 2012
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any queries.
Open Online One is still available to view until 14 November 2011.
1 CommentProducer and fine art graduate Bianca Winter has written a charming review of Encounters, on behalf of an.
To read the review please follow this link:
http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/1547929
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