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EARTH
The 2008 |
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The theme for the 2008 Appledore Visual Arts Festival (Thursday May 29th – Sunday June 1st) was ‘Earth’. Appledore is a beautiful estuary town with a maze of narrow winding streets and expansive views across the river and out towards the Atlantic Ocean. The Festival was a contemporary celebration of how we are all inspired and affected by our relationship with the Earth. |
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Satish Kumar, Director of Resurgence states that “The Earth has inspired great art for centuries. It is a wonderful, natural muse. As the earth inspires us, so too must we be inspired to preserve and protect it. It is great news that the Festival has chosen Earth as its theme for 2008, we are particularly delighted to be associated with this year’s events.” | |
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The Festival was the first annual Visual Arts Festival of its kind in the UK. Today it has a reputation as one of the broadest ranging events of its type. Visitors are offered a unique opportunity to interact with artists as they take part in a wide range of residencies, demonstrations, workshops, talks and art-creation events. |
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Events include an extensive programme of workshops. Adults, children and families can sign up to take part in a multitude of Advance Booking workshops including; film animation, a play-in-a-day and painting with earth. During the Festival there will be many, many free Drop-In workshops, whole families can join in and create a giant scrap planet, experiment painting with natural earth pigments, or help the National Trust build a dry stone wall ! | |
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Participating artists include
several internationally renowned artists who are inspired by Devon’s beautiful
and elemental landscape. Peter Randall-Page will be present, talking about
Granite Song, a collaborative project with the photographer Chris Chapman which
celebrates their local mid-Devon landscape. |
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Well known cob artists, Jill
Abey and Jackie Smallcombe will be creating a curvaceous wall sculpture. They
will be working with earth and its multitude of colours including reds, yellows,
ochres and browns. If you come you will be able to join in and work alongside
them ! | |
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Bideford Black is a rare pigment found in an underground seam running through North Devon. The highly popular landscape painter Paul Lewin, will run a two day Masterclass where participants will have the unique opportunity to work directly with this unusual pigment which was once used as eye liner ! |
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Alongside all these inspiring artists and workshops we will be screening a programme of Film Shorts. Categories include films from young people, films about the theme of ‘Earth’ as well as a wide ranging open category. During 2007 Appledore Arts managed the production of a highly acclaimed film based oral history project on Appledore’s fascinating maritime history, this will also be screened during the Festival. | |
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The Festival also offered
visitors the opportunity to explore this unique and historic village. There were Open Gardens, Decorated Doorknockers and for the first time an Artists Trail
where selected artists displayed their work in the homes of Appledore
residents. |
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All over Appledore there were things happening.
People came along, got creative and enjoyed the fun of the
Festival. There were a wide variety of workshops that people could join, such as
‘Making an Artists Book’ with the charismatic Eleanor Glove and an interesting new project in partnership with Dance in Devon in
which a Visual and a Dance Artist collaborated. There was also live music, Craft
Stalls and lots, lots more. | |
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