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Wednesday 27 February '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Here's a weird famous Scottish Footballers garden
The weather forecast for the weekend was 6 below and 60 cms of snow, by rights we should have cancelled, but knowing the forecasters propensity for overstating in case they are critisised for understating, we pushed on regardless.
The crew of artists on the China project came and ‘enjoyed’ tree planting in a light snowfall and moderate temperatures - above freezing. They stayed at Parkamoor but did complain of cold. I guess contemporary clothing is just not geared up for cold, damp conditions. I usually suffer from being too hot, tweed and wool is just too much in the heated environment. There is no way people will ever be able to go back from the level of heating that is now the norm. I noticed this recently while staying with friends, their house was full of eco stuff, they had carbon offsetting coming out of all ends. Each year they were planting 6 tiny trees which the label proclaimed would offset an average family’s carbon output. That might have been true but it would be 10 years before they jointly offset more than an average families wind breaking. And all this stuff is as nothing if you have your entire house heated to 24 degrees as they did.
My recent experience with central heating (I have moved to a central heated house while Lawson Pk is under the builders) has helped me realise a lot about contemporary society. I realise that central heating is the cause of sloth, anger and dysfunctional behaviour. It is impossible to get the temperature right, the non directional nature of it causes the background temperature to inexorably rise, this terrible heat means that if you do anything more than just sit in your vest and pants you become bad tempered. The rise in the divorce rate is - I now realise closely linked to the development of central heating.
All that aside, the team managed 80 metres of excellent hedging (200 small trees) which should in time cover them all for a flight half way round the world.
Friday 22 February '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Deputy Director Master Hudson talks about Creative Egremont quite a lot - the Greasy Pole, the Community Orchard etc. Adam outlines his plans for world domination by running as a Coniston Parish Councillor soon.
Thursday 21 February '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Children of Grizedale's new Youtube channel has been offering some technical challenges / professional development opportunities (delete as preferred) to Adam lately as he grapples with years of unlabelled tape and a tenuous grasp of iMovie, to bring you rarities from the Grizedale archive.
There's some fantastic stuff going up - witness the spine tingler from 2004's Romantic Detachment'....
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Thursday 14 February '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
In this week's show on Friday 15th from 4pm - 5pm:
David Johnson of Coniston, former farmer and milkman, will be talking about the history of local farming, how and why to lay a hedge, and the cool new solar panels on his B & B.
Friday 8 February '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Hayley Skipper is the Forestry Commission's New Arts Development Officer in Grizedale Forest Centre - she joins us to chat about what its like to move up here from fashionable London and have to wear a FC fleecy, and how and why to keep the old Grizedale sculptures in good nick.
Karen introduces the Lawson Park Collection and Lisa updates us on whether the building is still standing or if the webcam is a hoax.
Alistair reads from the local media: a copy of the Whitehaven News 1902, found in the Lawson Park walls.
And Karen talks about gardening. Again.
Thursday 31 January '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Monday 28 January '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
We kick off this Friday 1st with a visit from Bryan & Laura Davies on their The Wonderful North roadtrip, some discussion on turning Lawson Park from drab to fab, gardening chat and advice and much much more, that's as long as we can get the microphone working....
It'll get archived here as a downloadable MP3 once we get round to it.
Friday 18 January '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Kerry Stewart's Grieving Swan
We finally handed Lawson Park to the builders – Leck, a local firm who will be here for 9 months stripping and rebuilding the interiors of the house and barns. Day one coincided with torrential rain - combine rain and builders and you get knee deep mud , and the impression the building is just a pile of stones sliding down a muddy hill – which I guess it is - all its significance and meaning evaporated like it never was. It really brought a lot of memories back to me of people and dinners, events and extraordinary happenings, it was nice to be reminded and to think about how much had come from the house and the location.
Here’s a few moments that sprang to mind
6 wives of Henry the 8 reversing into the ravine
Colin Lowe and Roddy Thomson fighting and crying
Emily Wardill’s black dinner
Jesse Rae’s radio station
Olaf Breuning listening to a chainsaw artist singing a song about a cat
Damon Packard’s table manners
Juneaus burning a radio over a camp fire and the radio just kept going and going
Mark Wallinger repeatedly talking over a particularly boring dinner guest who kept mentioning Andy Goldsworthy
Karen in animated discussion flanked by Robert Woof and Ken Russell
The Japanese villagers of Toge changing into my giant checked clothes following a very wet mornings work
Gelitin partying in the meadow
Rose Lord, Adam Chodzko and Clio Barnard walking down the drive dressed as the 3 pigs
Kerry Stewart’s giant swan being mistaken for a real swan
Jon Ronson dancing hard, alone, to ELO in the barn after the Festival of Lying
Sarah Staton re-appearing in her car, hours after a dinner party ended, having been lost in the forest
Nina & Karen locked into the dining room for a week sewing elaborate Tudor costumes
Robert Woof (shortly before his death) walking slowly through the wild flower meadow to see the rare orchid
If you have any of your own please add them via the comments
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I remember Adam trying to erect a polytunnel in the rain ("a girlfriend-trap" - this was prior to Karen's relocation to Cumbria) while a 30-strong film crew slowly churned his house and garden into a Somme battlefield. They were filming Clio Barnard's film 'Flood', and in order to make the house's interior look like a 1970s run-down farmhouse they had to do quite a bit of painting and decorating. It was actually quite an improvement on the previous decor, so Adam asked them to leave it when they left. It was a lot nicer after that.
Friday 18 January '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
The Barn Stripped bare
Raise high the greasy pole
Pleased
Very pleased to say that Karen and Nina won the Northern Art Prize last night!
Photo's of the glittering event to follow
Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's first public art work is opening in Egremont tomorrow
Photo's of the glittering event to follow
Lawson Park has been stripped to the bones
Photo's of the glitering event to follow
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Wednesday 7 November '07 (from myvillages.org)
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]
- cats[1]
- celebrity[1]
- censorship[1]
- China[3]
- complaint[1]
- construction[1]
- Creamfields[1]
- Culture Cumbria[1]
- diary[1]
- disco[1]
- drystone walling[2]
- Egremont[1]
- exploited[1]
- Far West[1]
- farmer[1]
- film festivals[1]
- food kitchen garden[1]
- fungi[1]
- furness beekeepers[1]
- furniture[1]
- geodesians[1]
- geodesic dome[1]
- golf[1]
- ground source heat pump[1]
- GSK[2]
- Guest Room[1]
- guestroom[1]
- handling[1]
- Happy Stacking 7[1]
- hay[1]
- Honesty Box[1]
- honesty shop[1]
- Honesty Stall[2]
- Internationaler Dorfladen[1]
- jobs[1]
- July bombers[1]
- Kitchen Garden[1]
- Kurt Schwitters[1]
- landscape design[1]
- Langdale[1]
- Lawson Park Collection[1]
- library[1]
- Littoral[1]
- Liverpool[1]
- London[1]
- Malcolm Wilson Rally[1]
- meadow[1]
- Merz Barn[1]
- mice[1]
- migratory[1]
- moan[1]
- money[1]
- Mycology[1]
- myvillages[1]
- name[1]
- Narnia[1]
- NGS[1]
- Nina Pope[1]
- Old Masters[1]
- open garden bog[1]
- outside broadcast[1]
- overkill[1]
- Peter Hodgson[2]
- Peter Inman[1]
- pigs animals field livestock[1]
- Pope and Guthrie[1]
- proposal[6]
- public works[2]
- rawnsley[1]
- reactor[1]
- records[1]
- residencies[1]
- Royal Academy[2]
- rural[1]
- rural girl[1]
- Ruskin[2]
- school[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[1]
- soul music[1]
- strawberries[1]
- Stuart Bastik[1]
- Sufelje[1]
- SXSW Film Festival[1]
- ted taylforth[1]
- Texas[1]
- the Supernaturals[1]
- Toadball[1]
- toads[1]
- two guys[1]
- UCL[1]
- USA[1]
- vegetables[1]
- Village Kiosk[2]
- village shop[8]
- weather[1]
- wildflower meadow[1]
- wildflower meadow gardening toads[1]
- work[1]
Months:
Our blogs:Grizedale Arts Blog, Seven Samurai, Farmyard Radio, Creative Egremont, myvillages.org, Lawson Park Blog
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