collaborARTing

All Around Our Houses by Anna B. Sexton

Anna Sexton — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:25:41 +0000

Been doing some more writing for my book & work related courses & training programmes.

And in the process of doing so re-visited a book of poems I created back in May 2010 as part of a collaboration with poet, writer & performer; Miriam Nash

Follow this link to take a trip down my memory lanes through my poems dedicated to each house I have lived in since being born

http://bit.ly/zqR5Nw

A new poem is due for addition since moving back in the summer…watch this space

Exhibition time!

Miriam Nash — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:24:07 +0000

Yes… the time is fast approaching. Put it in your diary, carve it into your desk, ice it onto your cupcakes:

The Gallery, Stoke Newington Library, Church Street, London N16

Saturdays 10am – 5pm / Sundays 1pm – 5pm / Weekdays 11am – 6pm

Private views & performances: April 30th & May 11th 6pm – 9pm

CLOSED 3rd & 4th May

Catching up…

Miriam Nash — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:07:21 +0000

Anna and I have been quiet on the blog for a while, and guess why? Because we’ve been in Anna’s studio, working and playing away.

We’ve been scribbling…

Dancing…

Painting by me

Eating…

Hmmmm....

… and creating things which you can only have a preliminary, sideways peak at…

For more than that, you’ll have to come to our exhibition

Collage CollaborART

Miriam Nash — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:05:09 +0000

While Anna was here in Geneva, we had some fun with magazines, a high quality glue stick and (thankfully) two pairs of scissors. We leafed through a healthy stack of fashion and lifestyle magazines, choosing images that we felt related to our project. We then arranged them in a collage. Anna will have better photos, but here’s a rough overview:

This wasn’t just for fun – well, actually it was – but it was also an exercise in generating ideas, finding out how Anna and I see the project and seeing what images and objects we are both attracted to. Here’s one of my favourites:

Needless to say, there were lots of objects we might have found ourselves: suitcases, labels, letters, chairs, junk, dolls-houses, towels, books, ladders, shoes and street corners. Here are the lists of words Anna and I gathered from the collage:

Think of it as a sneak-preview into our minds and into what we could possibly make for the exhibition. Although I’ll be sad to leave Geneva soon, I can’t wait to see Anna again and get fabricating!

Oh Geneva…

Anna Sexton — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:02:04 +0000

A totally amazing city to visit for the short trip I was able to make to meet up with Miriam whilst she is briefly staying there. The city is calm and clean. Life seems to effortlessly glide by through days of coffee and cake eating whilst ladies walk their toy dogs, visit designer clothing emporiums and gentlemen effectively move around the city well groomed and poised for deals. The waters of Lake Geneva are so crystal clear and the swans large and scary…

Miriam and I wandered around her favourite haunts she has discovered whilst living there as well as some new finds along the artist walks we made including a magical cafe called the Cottage and the most amazing macaroon shop I ever seen or smelt in my life – lush, if a little over powering

Collabor-ARTing on Flickr…

Anna Sexton — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:00:44 +0000

Following the most fabulous trip to visit Miriam in Geneva (more posts on this to come) I have uploaded the photos I have been taking as part of the collaboration process, some I have shared via this blog and some not.

Take a peek via http://www.flickr.com/photos/annasexton/sets/72157623479085294/

… and a pig

Miriam Nash — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:59:58 +0000

Found valentines for Anna

Miriam Nash — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:54:46 +0000

One Arts…vote vote vote

Anna Sexton — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:58:43 +0000

Whilst I have been working with Miriam I have been working on a product concept which I have entered into One Big Idea competition…

Shameless self promotion plug que…

Click on this link to read more about how I see art and arts can change communities through a simple idea of sharing arts materials …

http://www.onedifference.org/onebigidea/competition/entries/one-arts-creating-power-change-lives-range-arts-products

The deadline is 19.02.2010 and my aim is to meet with Judges Dragon Den style and give a wider voice to how creativity can change communities…

A red adventure

Miriam Nash — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:15:00 +0000

My friend Yemisi Blake posted a random adventure on his blog, from This is Not A Book by Keri Smith. This resonated with the way Anna and I have been collaborating and the walks, objects and imprints we’ve been collecting in our separate cities. So I decided to try it. It’s called ‘Something Red’.

1. Go outside

2. Walk until you see something red

3. Take ten steps

4. Look down at your feet and describe what you see in detail

Tortoiseshell concrete: black amber grey white flecks, hard crusts of chewing gum, waterlogged cigarette butts – dabs of orange, crushed chestnut husks, cross hatched metal grate, square puddles gathering, pools of light reflected, eyes looking up, dark edges, circular lid, line of tar, melting snowflakes invisible.

I looked up to see what was around me, and saw this:

Guy Debord wrote:

The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance that is automatically followed in aimless strolls (and which has no relation to the physical contour of the terrain); the appealing or repelling character of certain places — these phenomena all seem to be neglected. (Theory of the Derive)

Something to ponder on…