Tuesday 7 June 2011
HACKNEY UTOPIAN'S EXHIBITION
From the 29th September-3rd of October
Hackney Gallery- Stoke Newington
The proposed exhibition would be a celebration of the people who lie in the graves in Abney Park Cemetery and of the people who live in the locality.
The park is a local landmark attracting visitors who enjoy its quiet, contemplative quality, the abundant natural world of the space and its rich history.
The process of preparation towards the exhibition will involve, an Arts Day that will include workshops run by the Hackney Utopian collective in collaboration with Abney Park Trust and Learning Centre. Work which will take the form of ceramics pieces and a ‘community game map’, made by Children and adults during the Family Arts day at Abney Park over August will be exhibited as part of the exhibition.
Each artist will make a series of works of art (comprising mainly, painting, printing, photography and ceramic-sculpture) in response to the community comments, the space itself and its history.
Previous projects by The Hackney Utopians have focussed on how the city environment affects the circumstances of communities. Running community art workshops, managing art projects, organising exhibitions and involving larger groups of artists is part of The Hackney Utopians’ artistic practice. Please see the links below to view our previous projects and individual websites
Links:-
Maria Alvarez-Echenique
Eva Bachmann
Frank Creber
Humanize Magazine, review article, pages 35-43
WORKSHOPS FOR ARTS DAY AT ABNEY PARK- 6-7 TH AUGUST
ARTISTS- The Hackney Utopians, Eva Bachmann, Frank Creber, Maria Alvarez
Open to all ages, parents and children together
10.30-12.30
Ceramic workshop, a walk around Abney Park Cemetery,
children picking up objects and leaves and press these onto pre prepared slabs
1.00-3.00 pm
Small groups to take pre-prepared activity maps around cemetery,
these will create a set of quests and actions to do and things to find at certain places.
They will return with the maps, which they will have personalised and drawn on, in order to go to the next level of the quest.
At the workshop space, they will come together and work on one joint Map which will complete their imaginative journey.
The Map will be completed and ceramics pieces fired. The outcome of both workshops will be exhibited alongside the artists work in the proposed exhibition at Stoke Newington Library Exhibition space.
We would welcome other artists to join in with the project.
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