Random Arts Cancel Exhibition
- Lack of Venue
"this is a big bad NO for this weekends TAA.
Looks like the E17 area wasn't ready for our squatted antecks
and after extnsive searches we were unable to come up with a usable
arena for our artwerk.
but thank you to all that have expressed interest
in this show, the responce has been terrific. So, as not to waste
that energy and artistic enthussiasm we are hoping to just postpone
the show rather than cancel it outright!
and so watch out for a later but better exhibition
in a few weeks in a venue OUTSIDE of walthamstow! we will let
you knw as soon as we do. Keep up the interest, we will reclaim
something!!!!
And don't forget
THE PLOT THICKENS
an exhibition based on a story @ The Foundry, Shoreditch
14th - 17th Sept - more info to follow
BRISTOL TAA
once again the west country comes alive with underground
artwerk and cider! All welcome
Date not confirmed but sometime in October we think.....
over and out"
Random Artists call for contributions
Random
Artists are putting on a gallery for the trail. See below
for details - as much as we have!
Trail Full - 50 Exhibitions.
Thanks everyone, the trail is full and the map has
been sent to the printers. If you want some, you can collect them
from Continental Drifts offices (1-4 Hatherley Mews) you can do
so after Wednesday 24th August.
44 Exhibitions Listed...
Thank you so much everyone in E17. There are now
44 exhibitions on the trail, with a couple more yet to be confirmed.
It's going to be great! Checkout the map.
10th August 2005
TRAIL SUBMISSIONS CLOSED!
With around 40 exhibitions (still counting!) the
final final deadline has expired. Sorry, but if you missed it,
please enjoy this year's exhibitions, and we will see you again
next year!
1st August 2005
Deadline Extended
We have extended the deadline for submissions to
Wednesday August 10th. This is the final date we need all applocation
by. If you are posting, please allow time, or drop your forms
off in person.
26th June 2005
Space with Shirley Pountney
Shirley know of some exhibition space(s?) down at
wood street covered market. Contact her for details.
shirley.pountney@virgin.net
21st June 2005
Pick up forms from Penny's Shop
Penny Fielding from Beautiful Interiors on Orford
Road has offered to hold membership forms and postcards. You can
pick up a from from her (and look around her lovely shop). If
you want to distribute postcards, please also collect them from
her.
Penny Fielding
Beautiful Interiors
17th June 2005
Walthamstow's Museums on board!
The William Morris Gallery and Vestry House Museum
are really keen to get involved in the E17 Art Trail. Lorna Lee,
Head of Museum, Gallery and Archives for Waltham Forest expressed
her interest and delight in the E17 Art Trail project, and for
artists to use the museum and gallery as venues for their work.
Possible ideas include:
Placing works in Vestry House Museum, alongside
the ongoing museum exhibits.
A gallery wall in the new extension at Vestry
House
A Sculpture Garden at Vestry House
Placing works in the William Morris Gallery.
In all cases, works selected will need to be sympathetic
to the environment, and Lorna Lee would have final say over
exhibits, health and safety and other restrictions.
If you are interested in following up any of these
possibilities, please contact Lorna Lee on lorna.lee@lbwf.gov.uk
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13th June 2005
E17 Art Trail off to a good start.
After last week’s launch in the Guardian,
we are off to a good start, with artists starting to come forward
and ask about registering. Hal Satterthwaite, whose project
‘1000 Faces of Walthamstow’ is a ongoing project
is signed up, and has permission from the Festival to display
his photographs on the metal fences that will be used. Hal has
said that he will be taking the 500th photograph at the Art
Trail, so anyone can be that person!
We now have postcards inviting people to get involved,
I’m sure you will see them soon. If you can help us distribute
them, please get in touch; we need to contact as many artists
and venues as possible.
The idea of the Art Trail is to encourage as many
artists as we can find in Walthamstow to put on a show in September.
We know there are very few proper venues, but in order to be
taken seriously by the council and other funders, we need to
demonstrate that there are loads of creative people if E17 who
are working away, and need to be seen.
The Art Trail has limited funds, which, with contributions
from exhibiting artists will pay for printing and publicity
for an Art Trail Map, showing all of the exhibitions that are
going on, where and when.
So it’s up to you.
Where can you exhibit? Do you have a favourite shop? Do you
have an empty garage? How about your local library? Your front
room? Your windows? Your Garden?
It’s up to you. You organise an exhibition,
sign up, and tell us about it. Then we produce a great Art Trail
Map Saturday, to coincide with this year’s festival. There
you have it; a great day for everyone, and we put Art on the
Map of E17.
All we are asking is that you contribute £10
towards printing and publicity costs, and that your exhibition
is open on Saturday 3rd September. If you can arrange it, you
can have a much longer show. Perhaps your local estate agent
will give you a bit of window space for two weeks – as
long as one of those days is Saturday 3rd September, you can
be on the map.
You need to get creative with ideas of where you
can exhibit. If you think about it, there are loads of places
that might work.
Do you make glass? How about your front
windows with lights on behind.
Tapestries? How about the cloth shops
down the market street?
Do you paint portraits? How about all
the photo printing and photocopying shops…or barbers shops…
Glamour Photography? Beauty Parlours…
And on and on… It’s only limited by
your imagination.
If you want to register download the membership
forms, or call 0208 509 3531 and leave a message with your name,
address and postcode and we will send one out to you.
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Calling all businesses:
The Walthamstow Festival brings thousands of
people into E17; but they come for the music and the entertainment.
What if part of the fun was in your shop?
If you have a business or shop in E17, and you will be open
to the public on Saturday 3rd September, please get in touch.
We are making a list of venues to match with artists who need
space. To get an exhibition on the Art Trail Map, all it costs
is £10, and that’s nothing, especially if you split
it with the artist. Nothing! And being on the map will potentially
drive hundreds of people into your shop on that day, and help
build the local community.
So if can spare a bit of space for one day in
the year, and in return you get free advertising and hundreds
of potential new customers, I think that’s a good deal.
A good deal for everyone!
If you want to take up this opportunity email
visualarts@walthastowfestival.com
or leave a message on 0208 509 3531 and leave a message with
your name, address and postcode and we will contact you.
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