It was lovely workshop on Wednesday with some beautiful creations from all ages. The idea is to make a big showcase of what can be done with your rubbish!
Come along this Wednesday, or the following one (11th or 18th August from 10:30 -12:30) to share your ideas, have fun, and chat over a cup of tea!
Photos from The Beetroot Tree
Over a series of 3 exciting workshops I will be working with lots of people to create a piece of artwork which is all about seeing the potential in rubbish…
I will talk a little bit about how I work and then we’ll get stuck in to making and gluing and stitching beautiful things for the artwork! You can come to one workshop or all three, and they are open to children and adults – the more the merrier!
The Beetroot Tree, South Street, Draycott, Derby DE72 3PP
4th August 2010, 10.30-12.30am
11th August 2010, 10.30-12.30am
18th August 2010, 10.30-12.30am
My work is on display at The Beetroot Tree Gallery in Draycott, Derby until the end of August. There’s a lovely cafe, shop, gallery and garden so it’s worth a visit! I’ll be running some workshops (for all ages) during the summer holidays, about how to make the most of rubbish! will post more details soon!
Last Sunday was a very hot event at Parsons Cross Park in Sheffield! We set up a shop where we exchanged everyones great ideas about play for junk model making stuff and much needed drinks!!
You can follow the Recycled Play project on facebook by clicking here, and becoming a fan! 
Parsons Cross Park in Sheffield is the place to be next Saturday! There will be fun activities to launch the start of Sheffield NOW’s Recycled Playground project, where we’ll be collaging and building with recycled materials to find out what makes you play, why play is important , and how we can design stuff to make people playful!
The event is free and fun for children and grown-ups!
Thanks to all those that braved the bank holiday cold and rain to come along to the Willington Arts Festival! My prints and greetings cards sold well, and I got chatting to lots of interesting people so it was a good weekend all round!
There will be a hands on workshop from 10.30 -12 next tuesday for anybody interested in getting involved in The Recycled Playground Project (described a couple of posts back!) The workshop will be held at our Sheffield NOW! Studio at Bank Street (find directions at http://www.bankstreetarts.com/)
If you are interested call or email me, or lisa on lisaprocter@sheffield-now.com and we’ll send you some more information!
On the May bank holiday weekend, I’ll be at the Old School in Willington as part of the Willington Arts Festival. As well as displaying some of my work, I will be selling prints and greetings cards. Hopefully see some of you there!
Sheffield NOW! (you can read about the organisation in previous posts) has just got funding through for a very exciting project that I’m going to be working on called ‘The Recycled Playground’. We’ll be doing a series of fun, free workshops to explore parks in Sheffield and build structures out of recycled stuff that respond to specific spaces and what young people want to do/feel there. The project starts in April…
If you are interested in volunteering or you know of some good places to get recycled stuff (bottles, bags, fabric, wood etc) get in touch with either lisa (lisaprocter@sheffield-now.com) or me – my Sheffield NOW! email is nickyward@sheffield-now.com.
I will be the featured artist this summer at The Beetroot Tree Gallery in Draycott, Derbyshire. I will exhibit some new collages alongside some pictures that have been exhibited before. Greetings cards with prints of my work (I’ve made some out of recycled magazines) will be for sale there too – I’ll put some pictures on here soon too.
Thanks to all those that braved the bank holiday cold and rain to come along to the Willington Arts
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