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Prize Harvester Issue* - harvesting prizes and prize vegetables
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Autumn descends on us yet again bringing to end an abundant year
at Lawson Park farm with a vulgar amount of sunshine engourging the
garden produce to prize-winning stature. In uncanny simultaneity,
it seems our years of sowing seed and nurturing the artistic
programme and its population of artists and public have produced
more invitations and opportunities than you can shake a dead
geranium at. However a big slug could quite easily snaffle it up
overnight and put paid to all that graft - metaphorically and for
real. (To whom can you possibly be referring? Ed.).
* Have you ever been to a Harvester before?
(As they say, you wouldn’t be here if you had. Ed.) |
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Turner Prize
Laure Prouvost’s work Wantee – home grown, built and
crafted in Coniston - got her nominated for the
Turner Prize, so now we have been shaking a leg here with Laure
to create components for her exhibition in Derry this October.
Peter Hodgson has
painted himself into a surreal corner with Adam firing off
suggestive teapots like a chimp in a cage. Our local team of
creative entrepreneurs aka Coniston Youth Club will be running the
‘Want tea?’ tea room at CCA Derry. Anna Pickering,
a recipient of one of our Artists Re-orientation Awards is working
on a costume with suitable bibs and capes.
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Sureley no chimp cound be behind this? |
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Turnip Prize
The first Coniston Home Grown Show and International Raised Pie
Competition was held at the weekend in the Coniston
Institute. The show was organised by the new Coniston Institute
Programme Manager, Pippa Martin – possibly the only arts worker to
be paid from the pockets of a small village (“Kidney Dialysis
Machine?” “No thanks, can we have programme of cutting edge
contemporary art?”). The concept of an entirely
non-competitive garden show was just a light radical step too far,
so prizes were offered and pitchforks duly lowered. Winners
included Karen Guthrie in the International Raised Pie Competition
and Maureen Fleming in the heaviest vegetable class. And in the
public vote section Lawson Park won the laurels for a basket of
fungi, fruit, nuts and berries from the wild garden. For full
results go the website.
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Press frenzy around Maureen's Marrow |
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Utility Prize
Grizedale Arts will be delivering projects in the Museum of Arte
Util, a collaboration with the Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven and
artist Tania
Bruguera opening in December (are you sure that’s a prize?
Ed.). This historic, era defining, game changing, blockbuster
(pimple on a pimple. Ed) of a show will feature the Coniston Honest
Shop as a prime example of Useful Art fulfilling all the criteria
set to sort the effective wheat from participatory chaff – the
criteria are listed here
but essentially the idea is things that actually work. The project
is part of our long-term collaboration with the Internationale
confederation of museums – The Uses of Art: The Legacy of 1848
and 1989.
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VAM soon to be the MUA |
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Propaganda Prize - Art Turning Left, Tate Liverpool, November 8 – February 2
The Office of Useful Art – a sort of new dockside press gang
centre to get people to see what the real value of art might be –
will be present within the
exhibition where you will also be able to survey the archive of
the Museum of Arte Util if your ‘Go See Grant’ won’t get you as far
as Eindhoven. The Office is brought to you in collaboration with
John Moores University Liverpool, Van Abbe Musuem and Tate
Liverpool.
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Semiotic humour |
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Fourth Plinth Prize
Marcus
Coates has been shortlisted for the
Fourth Plinth commission. You might say Marcus has had a
sluggish career but it seems to be paying off now - fourteen years
since he first started working at Grizedale. His Leopard Slug
Portrait if selected will overlook GA Director’s great grandfather,
(couple more greats, a couple of uncles and a spray of cousins in
there somewhere. Ed) a Napier standing forlornly at the lower right
hand corner of Trafalgar Square (even I don’t know what he did.
Ed.). It might have been the shamanic channelling he did with us in
the recent Anchorhold Project in Finland (no it definitely wasn’t
that, Ed.).
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Marcus Coates; Leopard Slug (Great Slug) Limax Maximus 2013 (Detail) |
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Pavilion Prize
Three architecture practices have been shortlisted by the
Coniston
Cricket Club Selection Committee to further develop proposals;
they are Larissa Johnson & Mervyn Rodrigues,
Ullmayersylvester and the The SCHTIP Collective. All three
have been visiting Coniston and meeting with the straight talking
club members (“You're the wild card, you know that?”) to advance
the designs. Final schemes are submitted in November and the
successful scheme will be announced shortly thereafter. (Has anyone
done the bat survey joke re the old pavilion? Dep. Ed) (Looking
forward to it already. Ed)
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Shortlisted design details by The SCHTIP Collective |
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APAP Prize
GA has been invited by the
Anyang Public Art Programme to go and do a Grizedale over
there. After building up a landmark selection of large scale public
sculpture in the urban landscape, they’ve decided that’s a bit
pointless. So they wondered if we might go design a room to
encourage artists in other directions and make one or two of their
plaza hugging behemoths a bit more useful. If this catches on it
could go really good for business – Naum Gabo clothes dryer, Angel
of the North wind turbine, Andy Goldsworthy kindling, Robert
Smythson Straight Jetty, Jaume Plensa…Jaume Plensa…Jaume, er….
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APAP Open School |
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Greasy Pole Prize
This year’s Greasy Pole event (as in the public sculpture of the
Egremont Greasy Pole by Egg Throwing Prize winning artists Jeremy
‘Turner Prize” Deller and Alan Kane) will be held on
Saturday 21 September at 10.30 am in the Market Place, Egremont.
First Prize is a leg of lamb sponsored by Wilsons the Butchers of
Egremont. If you are unable to climb up a slithery 30ft vertical
pole, other Prizes are available all weekend in the Crab Fair Sports including
World Gurning Championship Prize, Pipe Smoking Prize, Cumberland
Wrestling Prize, Egg Throwing prize, Drag Queen in a Wheel Barrow
Race Prize, Hound Trailing Prize and assorted vegetable and animal
prizes. A fun family weekend for all - until it goes dark. Very
dark.
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Current Greasy Pole Champion Adam Kane |
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Re Orientation Prize
Glad to announce Anna Pickering and Rosalie Schweiker
were selected from a large application to be GA’s first Artist
Re-orientation awardees – their precarious paths tread lightly on
the soil of change. Due to the interest and impossibility of the
selection process further residencies were also offered to
Amina Abbas-Nazari, Kristin Luke and Kasia
Depta Garapich who all attended a week long intensive
induction week with a view to developing proposals for future work.
Also visiting on the back of the call Bristol Diving
School and We Colonised the Moon are
spending time at Parkamoor.
Re-touchin’ my base residencies also went to Dominic
Allen and Ben Coode Adams.
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Artists orientate themselves around the dining table |
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Hide my Embarrassment Prize
The lengthy feature on the Lawson Park lifestyle is now in the
current issue of House and
Garden magazine – please do not look at it if you are inclined
toward simmering bitterness, tack spitting or bile oozeing. (NB the
magazine you should not look at is House and
Garden, which is read by Individuals of Private Wealth not
Homes and Gardens which is read by Individuals of
Private Car Registrations. Other things you should not look at is
the feature in
The Guardian on how it’s now ok to live and make art outside of
that there London, even in
tourist trampled vegetative wastelands like Grizedale Arts. And
anyway if you think that’s bad you should definitely not look at
this media coverage of Dep. Ed and Coniston Ed. with a
Giant Cabbage.
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Filthy. Do not open. |
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Arts Organisation with the Most Commissions to Make a Room Prize
Surely won by Grizedale Arts with rooms coming up in the Turner
Prize show with Laure Provost, Derry; Art Turning Left and the
Office for Useful Art in Tate Liverpool; Honest Shop and Cloakroom
at the Van Abbe Museum, Netherlands; Anchorhold Therapy room,
Hai-Arts Finland; Common Room,
Anyang Public Art Programme South Korea; Wind Dinning Room ,
Maebashi, Japan; A Room for the Ideal Man – Ancoats Manchester and
another room in Burnley somewhere. And all before Christmas –
yehay.
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Anchorhold therapy room for Hailuto in Finland |
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Volunteers and Interns Prize
Thanks and prizes go to the many people who have helped us to
date this year in supporting the programme, especially including
the resident volunteers and interns who will, all going to plan,
later be harvested as fully functioning creative citizens:
Rebecca Page, Rose Parish, Amy Leung, Yoko Sato, Rose
Adler, Susanna Pires, Rachel Ashcroft, Laura O’Leary, Charlie Hill,
Rosa Faber, Helen Savage, Anni, James Slicer, Graham Taylor, Jane
Lawson. (it’s been a good year for the Roses.Ed.)
Turnips and Giorgio Agamben texts on their way to you all.
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Stalwart, Yoko: beyond the call of duty |
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