Secret Cemeteries

Thursday 17 February 2011

Secret Cemeteries Expanded

Members of the group have been doing some individual work on our theme Kensal Green cemetery. The Hanging and the work will be in an Exhibition called Tension Between Man and Nature at Kensal Green Cemetery in the Dissenters Chapel, W10 4RA on April 9th/10th & 16th/17th 10.30-4

Sunday 25 July 2010

How the Graduate show went

Its been rather a long time since the show, I wanted to show you some photo's but its taken some time to get back to normal.

The setting up went pretty well, we were all fairly nervous and there were unexpected things to do but I think that is inevitable. I had Diana a student from year H to help most people had their husbands to help.
This is my area, I was pleased with it as I felt it did give an intimate impression that evoked the sense of people working together.
The picture above on the right is of Julie from Bolton work, the first picture was of Julie from the Isle of Man and the second of Rebecca's work, she lives in Switzerland.  Sorry I haven't got pictures of everyone's work.

This is a friend of Anita's at the private viewing, she had made this lovely hat her self.

The private viewing went very well, there were lots of people and it was very hot. I did find standing up for a long time difficult, my back has only recently recovered.

 It was a bit quiet on the Sunday, it was when England were playing Germany [football!!] so I went for a walk around Shoreditch. Its a very interesting area, with an extensive street market.


This will be my last post for Secret Cemeteries, thank you all for following it, its been a very good experience.

The Hanging will be making an appearance at the Festival of
  Quilts in Birmingham and we have been invited to have an exhibition at Kensal Green Cemetery in April 2012. This will be of our individual work as well as the Hanging.
I've enjoyed doing the blog I hope to organise another community project and I will do another blog for that.
Thanks           Jenny

Sunday 13 June 2010

Final plans for a display for the Graduate Show

This really is the final version. You have probably noticed by now that I've been having trouble with decideding how to do a display. As the Graduate Show is only a week away I thought I'd better make a decision and stick to it. So here it is. It is quite large so you will be able to see the photographs and read the writing.

 The Hanging will be there of course and another large poster of the Hanging in St Nicholas Church Yard. I hope to see you at the Show.

Sunday 6 June 2010

Prism

You might remember how in January I put photo's of two hangings on the blog, that I had made for Prism. So here they are at the Prism Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.
They are called Green Angel and Peeling Angel, made with a flour paste resist and natural dyeing.
I was a bit disappointed about where they were positioned in the gallery, as they are thoughtful pieces rather than decorative and so I think they would have been better in one of the gallery rooms rather than very near the door. However I did have a word with one of the people who set up the exhibition and my thoughts were sympathetically received.

Monday 31 May 2010

St Nicholas Church yard

We had a lovely sunny day, not like this weekend. The sun made very interesting patterns on one of the grave stones.
The patterns reminded me of the flour paste resist fabrics we have been making. This is a close up. I love the fine lines, I think they are to do with the sun shinning through a yew tree.
This is some peeling stone on another grave stone. Some of it is crumbly and some is really hard and thick.


Here is carved stone angel I used to make the poster. She is now completely surrounded by greenery, you can't see her at all from the main part of the Church yard.

Saturday 29 May 2010

The Exhbition at St Nicholas Church Yard

We were very lucky with the weather, what a glorious couple of days. St Nicholas Church Yard is a very tranquil spot, and we had a lot of visitors. The photo above is Suzanne with someone from one of her lace classes.

We were quite comfortable. Most people signed our comments book.
This was my favorite view of the hanging, it was good to see it in the setting that it has arisen from, a Victorian Church yard.


Marian, Catherina and Suzanne helped to steward and we were very pleased that Jackie came to see us, she has had a lot of pain with her back recently.

While we were there we saw some more lovely things I will post some photo's soon.

Saturday 15 May 2010

More developments for the exhibition

I now have postcards of the Hanging and also some details as well as some hands!!  As you can see the details feature different peoples work. My fellow workers on the project have contributed to the cost so I was able to get five different post cards printed. They will be available next weekend when we have our weekend exhibition in St Nicholas Church yard Elstree.