Through these blogs we are trying to make the organization and our way of working more accessible. Please contribute ideas, information and criticism.
Friday 11 July '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Oxford (Brookes) University students road building
The Coniston Water Festival starts today now completely run by the village with a fair bit of help on the management side from Lisa, they have a packed programme of stuff, including the world skimming championships and Britain's top unsigned band (that sounds a bit like top of the bottom). A full weekend. Lawson Park will be taking a stall at the Odd Market - a kind of farmers market meets craft/local enterprise. We will be featuring the work of local folk art guru Peter Hodgson (work in the collections of Jurgen Teller and Peter Greenaway). And the Dog Planter man Peter Inman (collected by fashion superstar Giles Deacon) We will also feature produce from the garden, wild food and other material from the Honesty Box network.
The baseball cap featuring the reversal of a famous Ruskin quote was described by the Coniston Corporate Embroidery company as 'overthought', an uncommon complaint almost unknown in the area.
'There is no life but wealth'
www.conistonwaterfestival.org.uk
Tuesday 8 July '08 (from Blog)
Lawson park's 4 beehives are suffering from the bizarre spring and early summer weather here - 5 weeks without rain then 3 with nothing but.
We have to feed each colony a gallon of sugar water (in July !) to try and kickstart the queens' laying and get those girls out there again.
Monday 7 July '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
The assault on the paddy fields by artist/lecturer Steve Duval and students from Oxford Brookes University and a brilliant lunchtime talk by Site manager and Liverpool John Moore's University lecturer John Byrne was only slightly marred by a continual downpour...
0 Comments
Saturday 5 July '08 (from Lawson Park Blog)
Farmhouse borders in early July 2008
Adam illicitly climbed on top of Leck's site hut to take this picture of the garden. There's not a lot of flowers out yet as this is really a late summer part of the garden, but you can enjoy the lushness.
Thursday 3 July '08 (from Lawson Park Blog)
The Bog Garden in July 2008
The bog garden we planted late last summer is developing rather gorgeously. As long as you ignore backdrop of the building site (behind me when I took this snap) you can revel in primulas - mooreana (that's the nonstop purple in the foreground) , florindae and bulleyana - hellebores, verbascum, ferns and hostas.
This area has called like a siren to our former gardener George Watson, whose now coming back in once a week!
Thursday 3 July '08 (from Lawson Park Blog)
Chips growing in the wild
Rather pleased with the way the 2 regenerated paddy fields are coming along. Soil was created from rotting down the cuttings and wood chippings from the field. This year is the first year of cultivation purely based on what we have been able to regenerate from the hill. Crops of Broad and French beans in one bed plus potatoes, cauliflower and sprouts in the other - each field is half sewn with green manure - alfalfa on this occasion.
Wednesday 25 June '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
For a change from building work I dropped in on the Furness bee keepers skep making workshop and a found a farm kitchen strewn with straw and weaving enthusiasts, a medieval scene. For Lawson Park we are planning to use this material to back the window seats but of course it is harder to find someone to to it - mostly being used in Orkney and the Orkney weavers being unwilling to come so far south. So.... it doesn't look so hard, unless this was a particularly talented group with a special affinity for straw. This great example illustrated on the right is made with orange plastic baler twine, now that could be nice.
Topics: 'skep' 'furness beekeepers'
0 Comments
Tuesday 24 June '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Peter Inman's animal planters await TNT for their trip to the 'Far West' exhibition at Arnofini in Bristol.
Along side many other 'products' from the Japan and China projects as well as products from the honesty stall network, there will be a stall running the duration of the programme, so if your in Bristol and have a sudden and urgent need for a dog planter, mare's milk, a bone comb or some wild Chinese mountain honey in an old coke bottle you will find all your needs quickly met at the Arnofini art gallery, and it's not often you can say that.
Works and collaborations from:
Myvillages, Pope and Guthrie, Seven Samurai, Happy Stacking 7, Public Works, Peter Hodgson, Peter Inman and many others
Topics: 'public works' 'myvillages' 'Arnofini' 'Far West' 'Peter Inman' 'Pope and Guthrie' 'Seven Samurai' 'Happy Stacking 7' 'Peter Hodgson'
0 Comments
Monday 23 June '08 (from myvillages.org)
Honesty Stall at Rochelle School, London
Höfer Waren stall 2007, Höfen
Our proposed so called village shop has opened, a while ago, and been up and running at various locations with different product ranges at random prices, and together with Grizedale and public works and somewhere we have become happy and busy traders.
The shop appears under such different names as:
Honesty Box
Internationaler Dorfladen
Honesty Stall
Village Kiosk
Sufelje
Shop activities have shifted to other blogs:
the myvillages.org website
the myvillages/public works blog on the Agrifashionsita.tv website
and the still rudimentaryvillage kiosk blog.
Topics: 'Honesty Stall' 'Village Kiosk' 'Internationaler Dorfladen' 'Sufelje' 'Honesty Box'
1 Comment
I think it is good that the honesty stall project has no owner but should perhaps mention that it was juneau/projects that kicked this project off (as an art thing) with the stall in Japan. Their project was called 'Like a Wayside Shrine' - and not forgetting that the concept is a common one around the UK.
From Grizedale point of view it has been nice to see it grow and transform organically. Every version of it has a different name and idea of how it should operate, we will never agree on a common policy in fact I think no stall will ever be able to have a policy - the nature of openness is constant change.
The relationships between all the stalls is also evolving, I think everyone is involved in the stall for Arnofini opening at the end of the week - even the juneaus. Grizedale will also be doing a stall as part of the Farmers market in Coniston 13th July - a new development for the Coniston Water Festival. We are just making some new products with local craftspeople - watch this space for Ruskin baseball caps, Ernest Race dog/cat book shelves, and Peter Hodgson 'animal wars' wall paper
Thursday 19 June '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Friday 20th July in the Yard, visits from artists Nina Pope, Stuart Bastic of Artgene, discussion likely to cover 'Song For a Circus' and Stuart's shack project in Barrow.
Topics: 'Stuart Bastick' 'Nina Pope' 'shack' 'arnold circus' 'song for a circus'
0 Comments
Topics:
- add things[1]
- amphibians[1]
- architecture[2]
- Arnofini[1]
- arnold circus[1]
- being different[1]
- bog lawson park garden water walling craft[1]
- building[1]
- building site[1]
- celebrity[1]
- censorship[1]
- China[3]
- construction[1]
- Culture Cumbria[1]
- drystone walling[1]
- Egremont[1]
- Far West[1]
- farmer[1]
- film festivals[1]
- food kitchen garden[1]
- fungi[1]
- furness beekeepers[1]
- furniture[1]
- golf[1]
- ground source heat pump[1]
- Guest Room[1]
- handling[1]
- Happy Stacking 7[1]
- Honesty Box[1]
- honesty shop[1]
- Honesty Stall[1]
- Internationaler Dorfladen[1]
- July bombers[1]
- Kitchen Garden[1]
- Kurt Schwitters[1]
- landscape design[1]
- Langdale[1]
- Lawson Park Collection[1]
- Littoral[1]
- Liverpool[1]
- London[1]
- Malcolm Wilson Rally[1]
- Merz Barn[1]
- money[1]
- Mycology[1]
- myvillages[1]
- name[1]
- Narnia[1]
- Nina Pope[1]
- open garden bog[1]
- outside broadcast[1]
- overkill[1]
- Peter Hodgson[1]
- Peter Inman[1]
- pigs animals field livestock[1]
- Pope and Guthrie[1]
- proposal[6]
- public works[2]
- residencies[1]
- rural girl[1]
- Ruskin[1]
- self-importance[1]
- Seven Samurai[1]
- shack[1]
- skep[1]
- Slade School of Art[1]
- soil[1]
- something[1]
- song for a circus[1]
- soul music[1]
- Stuart Bastick[1]
- Sufelje[1]
- SXSW Film Festival[1]
- Texas[1]
- the Supernaturals[1]
- toads[1]
- two guys[1]
- UCL[1]
- USA[1]
- vegetables[1]
- Village Kiosk[1]
- village shop[8]
- weather[1]
- wildflower meadow[1]
- wildflower meadow gardening toads[1]
Months:
Our blogs:Grizedale Arts Blog, Seven Samurai, Creative Egremont, Farmyard Radio, myvillages.org, Lawson Park Blog
0 Comments