Island 2000 Trust Blog

Island 2000 have teamed up with staff at St Georges school to present Dolly Mixtures.

Dolly Mixtures is an eclectic mish-mash of art dolls created from an equally eclectic range of materials by more than 20 Island-based artists exhibited in the Learning Curve Gallery at Quay Arts from 17th May in support of the St George’s School DRAGON Project.

Visitors to the exhibition will have the rare opportunity to own these pieces of art and to support a good cause at the same time as they will be raffled off to raise funds for the project.

Catalogues will be on sale at the Quay for £5 which will include a raffle ticket on which you can indicate your favourite ‘dolly mixture’ doll. The draw takes place on Thursday 29th May (between 6-8pm), so do go along to buy your ticket and see the draw. If you can’t get to the Quay to buy a catalogue e-mail hannah@island2000.org.uk for info on other outlets.

The DRAGON project at St George’s is an amazing and ambitious new kind of learning centre run by students for students. It will offer new opportunities for pupils at St Georges School as well as pupils across the Island who can come and use the unique bespoke facilities.

Check out the official website to read more about the project

image courtesy of Judes Crow

Art Commission Brief

The Island Storytellers are a group of people committed to the oral retelling of stories and poems, whether they be traditional or modern tales. They are organising a storytelling festival, ‘Ferry Tales’, in May 2008. One of the elements of the festival will be a storytelling competition at which storytellers tell stories inspired by a piece of artwork. The Arts Team are working with the group to commission a piece of art for this competition which can be used as a prompt by storytellers.

Submissions are invited by 31st January 2008

www.islandstorytellers.co.uk

www.thatsanotherstory.co.uk

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The Arts Team asked local basket maker and artist Tim Johnson to give I2k staff an expert guide round the fabulous ‘East Weaves West’ exhibition at Quay Arts last week. This was an incredibly inspiring and rich exhibition showcasing Basketry from Japan and Britain and it has been received with great enthusiasm from gallery goers on the Island. A whole spectrum of basketry was on show, from the strong and functional to the decorative and fragile and all things in between. We wanted to look at the show in relation to the variety of work we do at the Trust. In particular we realised that the natural materials that are cleared in some of our conservation work could be channeled back into arts and making projects and that our fledgling ’scrapstore’ we are developing should have a ‘natural scrap’ section too.

The picture to the left shows Danny and Ian modeling (Chinese and Dutch respectively) woven shoes. Warm, comfy and good for sliding across galleries apparently but very creaky.