What a lovely place.
We met in the studio at 10am and left for town. Maddie's work looks at gift and exchange, so she suggested we went to a charity shop and buy each other gifts, we left the shop with an array of bright and wonderful objects/fabrics/books. We then went on to a cafe for a coffee where we discussed the plan for the day. We also met two ladies, one of whom's son was working at the Falmouth Hotel, not that this is relevant.
A ferry and a moustache later we arrived at St Mawes, from here we walked to the castle in eccentric pink leopard print shawls, donning comedy moustaches, courtosey of Maddie. The occasion had a somewhat theatrical feel to it.
For my work I had brought along jumbo colour chalks as a means of creating interventions in the landscape. these I distributed out among the group and we began colouring in bits of nature. The action was performative in a way, but social as well, it brought the group together, interacting with nature and it was a playful 'happening' - seems to be a good word to describe the activity. All around St Mawes you could find, if you looked, pastel coloured twigs, rocks and stones. I like the ephemeral nature of the act, with rain they would wash away, and it did rain, they had a short life span, but existed long enough to make someone look twice at something otherwise mundane.
For more pictures of the trip see the Trips and Visits page.
We met in the studio at 10am and left for town. Maddie's work looks at gift and exchange, so she suggested we went to a charity shop and buy each other gifts, we left the shop with an array of bright and wonderful objects/fabrics/books. We then went on to a cafe for a coffee where we discussed the plan for the day. We also met two ladies, one of whom's son was working at the Falmouth Hotel, not that this is relevant.
A ferry and a moustache later we arrived at St Mawes, from here we walked to the castle in eccentric pink leopard print shawls, donning comedy moustaches, courtosey of Maddie. The occasion had a somewhat theatrical feel to it.
For my work I had brought along jumbo colour chalks as a means of creating interventions in the landscape. these I distributed out among the group and we began colouring in bits of nature. The action was performative in a way, but social as well, it brought the group together, interacting with nature and it was a playful 'happening' - seems to be a good word to describe the activity. All around St Mawes you could find, if you looked, pastel coloured twigs, rocks and stones. I like the ephemeral nature of the act, with rain they would wash away, and it did rain, they had a short life span, but existed long enough to make someone look twice at something otherwise mundane.
For more pictures of the trip see the Trips and Visits page.