Recycled by Design - 2008-2009
RECYCLED BY DESIGN
Artists and designers have found a way to transform waste into more than its original value.
Exploration of the subtlety and ingenuity required to turn waste and found items into beautiful and unique objects will be highlighted in the new show at Guildford House Gallery and a programme of temporary installations at The Lightbox this coming Autumn.
Caroline Jackman is working in partnership with Guildford & Woking Borough Councils, Arts Council England, Surrey CC and Surrey Arts to help coordinate a project titled Recycled by Design. This project involved 5 artists working with 5 communities from Spring – Winter 2008 raising the profile of reduce, reuse, recycle through creative means. The selected artists were Jane Ponsford working with Junior Art School at The Lightbox, recent graduate Tim Gentry working with County School in Guildford, Mary Branson working with Lockwood Day Centre in Guildford, Lucy Fergus, recent graduate working with Howard of Effingham school and Cas Holmes working with Woking College. Documentation of these community projects was showcased at Guildford House Gallery in September 2008.
Recycled by Design programme of temporary installations from 16th September 2008.
At The Lightbox, Chobham Road, Woking, GU21 4AA, 01483 737800, www.thelightbox.org.uk
Open Tue – Sat 10 – 5pm, Sun 11 – 5pm (closed Mondays including Bank Holidays)
Autumn 2008 saw the start of a programme of 5 temporary art installations using the versatile non exhibition spaces of the Lightbox. This programme will continue through to next spring and enables 5 artists to showcase new work using discarded materials transforming them to innovative contemporary pieces of artwork.
Artists will include recent graduate Lucy Fergus who will be taking on the challenge of the stairwell space, sourcing waste rubber and transforming this versatile material to a dramatic installation, which will be quite a contrast to Jane Ponsford’s delicate paper installation, which has been created as a result with her collaboration with Junior Art School, a project instigated by Surrey Arts.
The programme:
16th September – 30th November 2008 -
Artist Jane Ponsford, worked with Junior Art School, education project partnered with The Lightbox. Created site specific installations using pieces made with the group as well as Jane’s own work. The work was on show on the ground floor and second floor of the The Lightbox.
14th October 2008 – 11th January 2009
Artist Lucy Fergus (www.re-silicone.co.uk) created ‘Re-silicone Lining’, an installation for the stairwell using a combination of industrial waste rubber silicone off-cuts.
Artist & graphic designer Nick Sayers (nicksayers.com), installed 'To Live', a spherical shelter made from estate agent boards.
3rd March – 10th May 2009
For the finale, The Lightbox is playing host to two temporary installations, one questioning what we or others discard and the other looking at enhancing your surroundings using natural materials.
Artist Tim Gentry created site-specific structures ‘Pleasure Spheres’ using natural materials, which would grow over time.
‘Landfill’: Artist Paul Matosic to install recycled structure, using recycled, reclaimed or found materials where these materials carry with them traces of past usage and are indicative of consumer society. Paul offered an artists talk on his work on Wednesday 15th April at The Lightbox in association with ARC
This finale was accompanied by a short activity for all age groups. Completed activities were entered into the Recycled by Design post box at The Lightbox, for a free prize draw to win £50 to spend in The Lightbox gallery shop.
The Lightbox, Chobham Road, Woking, GU21 4AA, 01483 737800, www.thelightbox.org.uk
Community Projects
Jane Ponsford working with Junior Art School at The Lightbox, Summer 2008. Theme: paper making for collage, large scale banners and personalised books.
Tim Gentry working with County School in Guildford, July 2008. Theme: design & creating grass spheres for the school courtyard.
Mary Branson working with Lockwood Day Centre in Guildford, July-August 2008. Theme: using recycled glass, creating fused glass sculpture pannels.
Cas Holmes working with Woking College students at The Lightbox, Autumn 2008. Theme: creating colourful banner displays for the Lightbox using textiles, drawing and found objects.
Lucy Fergus working with Howard of Effingham School, October- Novmber 2008. Theme: using waste rubber silicone, creating jewellery, an LED light for the school and a rug for St Lawrence Primary School.
The Smell of the Moon
A light and glass installation by Mary Branson came to Abbots Hospital, top of Guildford High Street for one night only.
4.30 - 7.30 Thursday 20th November sharing the Christmas Light celebrations
The Smell of the Moon (V3) is a collaborative project between Mary Branson and Jelly Tree Productions. The dramatic light installation includes three thousand recycled glass jars which have been kiln fired and placed in the courtyard of Abbot's Hospital, Guildford.
The work is inspired in part by the story of Apollo XVII Gene Cernan, the 'last man on the moon', who noticed the smell ‘like burned gunpowder’ coming from the dust on his boots when he removed his helmet inside the capsule after completing his moon walk. The notion of a space where a sense can only exist for a very selected few brings us the question ‘what would it smell like? A typical example of Mary's attempts to look at the world from an oblique perspective and provoke questions from her viewer.
Smell the Moon (V3) is a part of the bigger project Recycled by Design and a bigger message: Reduce Ruse Recycle. After the installation the jars will be recycled to create new bottles and jars.
For further information & images contact Project Coordinator Caroline Jackman on 01483 527 688, e: caroline@20firstcenturyart.com
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