My favourite bit of our Off The Latch review

'No doubt you will consider me very frivolous, but in the weeks after my encounter with Off The Latch, I’ve increasingly found myself thinking that the stall functioned a little like Bagpuss’ fictional old shop, a place in which objects await the new life to be leant by someone’s imagination. The artists here know that thrifty recycling is in fashion right now, but it’s clear that their ambition lies beyond mere utility: they want us to explore the poetry of objects and its resulting potency within our emotional lives.' Review by Joanne Lee

Why do I have the urge to make a church out of cocktail sticks?

For some reason I have the biggest urge to make a church out of cocktail sticks. Not like the hugely detailed ones below, I think there'd very little interest there once you get past the initial skill of the works. But it'd like to make my own version, in the same style as the peice below (for some reason its come out really small, for a bigger image check out the gallery on my website www.hannahbishop.com). But a huge version of my cocktail stick church, big enough to fill a room. Don't ask me why, it's like when I wanted to make a chandelier out of empty prawn shells back in the winter. Maybe I should just do it and work out why after, or maybe I'll work it out whilst I'm making them. Who knows?

compARTment

Since finishing my second year of uni I've been looking for a something in Brighton to firstly occupy my time and secondly continue to help me develop my practice since the end of Off The Latch. So I've found myself a job at primark and managed to get involved with compARTment, an arts organisation who look to revitalise empty spaces in Brighton.
I Initially met them during Off The Latch, they'd been enquiring into the possibility of attaining a stall in the Open Market as well and it was great to talk to them about their organisation and what thy wanted to do with the space. Since then they've gained access to two stalls on the south of the Market, along from where Off The Latch was and I've been down there helping them scrape, scrub and paint.
They're planning to have a revolving programme of exhibitions and events, ranging from sonic art, to puppet workshops, graffiti to artist and makers markets. Check out their facebook group and website to be updated about whats going on and to apply to do something in this fantastic space!
Is a brilliant opportunity to show work and create events in unique space in Brighton
http://compartment.org.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=110716948979781&v=info

Off The Latch review by Joanne Lee

We were very lucky to be put in contact with Brighton based artist and writer Joanne Lee in regards to Off The Latch and I've recently been sent the link for the review she's written. Check it out!

http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/647595

I keen finding different projects that kind of skirt around what it is that i want to do, work which integrates art into life, is socially engaging, outside of the gallery space.
Jeremy Dellers Procession is one such project, I love this clip from the culture show, check it out at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/videos/2009/07/s6_e1_deller_webonly/index.shtml
only recently discovered that you can watch all back sections of the culture show about art, handy stuff!

The top image is of a piece called 'So I Will Build My Altar in the Fields' and was made in March 2008, and the bottom image is of the same place in my dad's farm in Somerset taken today, over two years later.
To put it very simply the piece originally dealt with the idea of worshipping and appreciating the land as you do with a religion, after having been set an environmental project on foundation. The piece was situated on the Coleridge way, a walk which crosses much of West Somerset, including the farm, and follows in the footsteps the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge walked often occasionally with good friend Woodworth. I liked the idea of creating an artwork which dealt with the environment, as part of the environment.
Looking back it became for an audience who are both interested in the beauty of the area and those interested in the poet, therefore both the art and non art audience I have previously spoken of.
Also after reading about and feeling inspired by the exhibition at the South London Gallery 'Nothing is Forever' I see links with the way my work has disappeared. Altho while those pieces will intentionally be painted over, I prefer the way my work has disappeared, gradually being claimed back by the land which I was celebrating. Well that and some being knocked over by sheep...
But still id rather create works which become part of that space, rather then being intrusive and are allowed to change over time. Pieces that are not self destructive intentionally but in their nature will not be long lasting, quite an honest way for an artwork to go I think. Nothing lasts forever...

Looking back with new eyes

The top image is of a piece called 'So I Will Build My Altar in the Fields' and was made in March 2008, and the bottom image is of the same place in my dad's farm in Somerset taken today, over two years later.

To put it very simply the piece originally dealt with the idea of worshipping and appreciating the land as you do with a religion, after having been set an environmental project on foundation. The piece was situated on the Coleridge way, a walk which crosses much of West Somerset, including the farm, and follows in the footsteps the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge walked often occasionally with good friend Woodworth. I liked the idea of creating an artwork which dealt with the environment, as part of the environment.

Looking back it became for an audience who are both interested in the beauty of the area and those interested in the poet, therefore both the art and non art audience I have previously spoken of.

Also after reading about and feeling inspired by the exhibition at the South London Gallery 'Nothing is Forever' I see links with the way my work has disappeared. Altho while those pieces will intentionally be painted over, I prefer the way my work has disappeared, gradually being claimed back by the land which I was celebrating. Well that and some being knocked over by sheep...

But still id rather create works which become part of that space, rather then being intrusive and are allowed to change over time. Pieces that are not self destructive intentionally but in their nature will not be long lasting, quite an honest way for an artwork to go I think. Nothing lasts forever...