Last week Freefall responded to an artistic provocation set by Johanna Korndorfer from the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) based in Haldon Forest, Exeter.  Johanna asked the group to think about the words Tree Culture and respond creatively to express thoughts they had about trees.  Admittedly a broad spectrum to start from, but we discussed how we all relate to trees in life, what they mean to us and issues surrounding the environment.

Trees as beauty. Trees under threat. Trees as sources of life. Trees for Oxygen. Trees as homes for animals. Trees as textures or colours. Trees as shade. Trees filtering light. Trees as paper/ as benches/ as beds/ as coffins. Trees as shelter. Trees cut down-Deforestation. Trees roots (that uproot manmade roads?). Trees leaves. Big old trees. Tree stumps. Holes in Trees-what’s inside?  Fallen Trees.

The group have produced paintings, photographs and 3D art to communicate an idea with those who view their work as part of the exhibition in Haldon Forest.

For more information on the exhibition and the task see: http://ccanw.co.uk/activities/schools-exhibition.htm and watch this space for examples of their work.

A bit more about this project:

“A rare chance to view original prints by printmaker-artist Leonard Baskin and create your own original prints for an exhibition at the University of Exeter. This amazing opportunity has been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. You will be taught by artist-tutors from Double Elephant Print Workshop and students from the University’s Art Society, and you will experience a variety of printmaking techniques, woodcut, drypoint, lithography. “

Georgie at Freefall, Image by Sally Trivett

Check out our new Freefall page dedicated to Georgie Daltrey’s Photography.

Georgie will be updating regularly and would like to hear what you think.

Great work Georgie.

Post by Lizzy

Here’s a sneak peek…

Tonight Freefall began creating a sculpture designed exclusively for The Express and Echo office.  Marc Astley, Editor of the E&E charged Freefall with the challenge of creating a talking point, and gave the gang hundreds of old editions of the paper as the key material for the sculpture.  Freefall discussed themes and ideas relating the the paper, and we think they’ve come up with a great idea.  Now we have to make it happen!  Check out the hard work and creativity in the pictures from tonight’s Freefall.  I can’t tell you what the idea is yet, but hopefully it will get you talking for the right reasons!

Dapper Sally

RAMM will be reopening on December 16th with two stunning exhibitions, one of which is the Road to Rome, all about the 18th century grand tour. It features as its star item a wonderful portrait of Devon MP John Rolle Walter wearing an expensive fur cloak. It is painted by Pompeo Batoni, the portrait painter of choice at the time.

The coat you see is a replica cloak like that worn by John Rolle Walter. It’s a light moment within the exhibition! The exhibition ends in early May 2012.

We perfected holding quills, music sheets and books to make us look learned. And had the joy of a stuffed toy dog to indicate our wealth. Rather interesting contrast to our visit to the Harvey-Regan exhibition, see our Visual Art entry and you’ll see why!

By Lizzy