Doremi 2017 hosted by The Coniston Institute and Grizedale Arts

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I am very excited to say that Doremifasolasido 2017 will be hosted by The Coniston Institute and Grizedale Arts, 9th – 15th October 2017

Partner organisations will be nominating artists to participate over the coming months so do check back here/keep an ear to the ground for more info on how to apply this year. Our partners are ACAVA (London), C-Art (Cumbria), East Street Arts (Leeds), Islington Mill (Manchester), The Newbridge Project (Newcastle) and Grizedale Arts (Cumbria).

I’ll leave you for now with a beautiful piece of textiles by the Langdale Linen Industry – The Ruskin Museum in Coniston has an amazing collection of Ruskin Linen and Lace!!

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Images from this year’s Doremi exhibition at Florence Arts Centre

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‘Teble’ by Mark Essen
Video still from work by Esmeralda Valencia Lindstrom
Still from video work by Esmeralda Valencia Lindstrom, filmed on site at Florence Mine with the support of Shane Taylor Welders
Freya Gabie, ‘What comes up not what comes down’, water taken from the mineshaft and frozen in a rock formation
‘Clap Trap’ by David Lisser
Detail of ‘Is Everything Just Red?’ by Bess Martin
Installation shot of Doremi2016 in Florence Arts Centre exhibition space
Lisa Risbec, mixed media
work by Jackie Haynes, site-specific installation around the Florence Mine site
work by Jackie Haynes, site-specific installation around the Florence Mine site
Jacob Wolff, ‘Rybscope’, spray paint on window of the old mining building
Jacob Wolff, ‘The Wolff Machine’, the accompany DJ set by Elliot Horton-Stephens
Josh Wilson, performance during the residency week
Josh Wilson, ‘Site Writings’, performance at the opening weekend
Elisabeth Porter, ‘Hopeless Boat 1’, stone boat, gold, fox glove
Pippa Eason, mixed media
Installation shot of work by Pippa Eason and Elizabeth Porter in the artist studio space at Florence Arts Centre
Sarah Tew, ‘Gutter, remnant,’ Chromatography paper, food dye, rust
Stephen Bochonek, ‘Full Scale Model of the Day’ (11 paintings, collective title), Acrylic on canvas
still from Louis-Jack Horton-Stephen’s film, ‘Project (?/?)’
Stephanie Farmer, papier mache
still from Louis-Jack Horton-Stephen’s film, ‘Project (?/?)’
Jocelyn McGregor, ‘Jennifer’ (detail), plaster, Florence Paintmakers pigment – exhibited indoors
Jocelyn McGregor, ‘Jennifer’ (detail), plaster, Florence Paintmakers pigment, exhibited outdoors

Doremifasolasido 2016 at Florence Arts Centre, Egremont

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Doremifasolasido 2016 at Florence Arts Centre, Egremont

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20th August – 4th September 2016

OPENING WEEKEND: 20th & 21st August

Artists

Pippa Eason , Mark Essen, Stephanie Farmer, Merlin Fulcher, Freya Gabie, Jackie Haynes, Louis-Jack Horton-Stephens, David Lisser, Bess Martin, Jocelyn McGregor, Elizabeth Porter, Lisa Risbec, Sarah Tew, Esmeralda Valencia, Lillian Wilkie, Joshua Wilson, Jacob Wolff

Partners

Association of Cultural Advancement through Visual Art (ACAVA), C-Art, East Street Arts, Islington Mill Art Academy, The Newbridge Project, Open School East, Linsey Young
Special thanks to our partners for nominating this year’s participating artists!
And to Print for their kind support.
Looking forward to seeing you all at Florence Mine in August!

 

Doremi Opening Saturday! Thanks to everyone who came!

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What a wonderful weekend of performances, film screenings, walking tours and the opening of this years Doremi- exhibition! A huge, warm thank you to all those who came. To Jo Beattie, and to Christine McGregor, Marian Simmons and Eileen McGregor for catering for us all.

And if you didn’t make it, there’s still time! The exhibition runs until 4th September 2016.

In “The Hermit’s Cave”, aka the new Florence Arts Centre Artist Studios, with work by Mark Essen
Josh Wilson performing ‘Site Writings’
Louis-Jack Horton-Stephens showing off his freshly painted nails and new-found knowledge of pearls from the River Eede, both imparted by Lillian Wilkie
Rachel and Fran from East Street Arts tuning in to ‘Project (?/?)’ by Louis-Jack Horton-Stephens
And the dancing begins with DJ set by Elliott Horton-Stephens and the live-mixed ‘Wolff Machine’ by Jacob Wolff
Elizabeth Porter giving a beautiful reading as part of Different Skies Spoken Word set
The travellers from London having 40 winks before the film screening
Merlin Fulcher’s and The Hermit’s walking tour of Florence Arts Centre and the Doremi exhibition
‘Big Trucks, Yeah’ by Alex Culshaw, shown as part of the Doremi film programme
Artist moving image by Amanda Rice, showing as part of the Doremi film programme

Slow-cookers, line as high as a mine, and oh yeah, what do you think of a Florence Paintmakers beauty products line? Just a few thoughts from the Doremi week…

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Communal outdoor dinners – in Cumbria!
Florence pigment as hair dye? Lillian Wilkie and Pippa Eason are giving it a go.
Josh Wilson getting into character
Jackie Haynes “lining” the mine
Jocelyn McGregor’s ‘Jennifer’ trying out different habitats
Freya Gabie’s test flight for ‘a thousand foot of celebration’
Elizabeth Porter stone carving
Bess Martin asking, “Is Everything Just Red?”
The BBQ!
Jacob Wolff and David Lisser, when working methods meet
Jackie Haynes doing some branding hangman
Barbara’s ginger cake!!