3.30.2008

Spanners Orkney Visit 2008

Tuesday 01 April - Thursday 03 April 2008
Ten members of the Spanners arts group, will visit Orkney with Ruth, Linsday and Jenny.
During the visit we will work with the Muddy Funksters, visit the Pier Arts Centre, The Italian Cheapel, Skara Brae, Meashowe, The Ring of Brodgar and Rackwick beach on Hoy. Whilst on Hoy we will be joined by members of the Pier Group and visit the 20 international artists who are taking part in the two week Triangle Arts workshop. We will create work indoors or outdoors, weather permitting, in response to our surroundings using: the natural and found materials around us, video and stills photos.

Look out for pictures of the trip on our return!

Orkney visit


Hi, the advance party from Orkney has returned. I havn't been to all of the places that we will visit but the few that I have seen were brilliant. Saint Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall is really big , the walls are lined with headstones(mostley written in Latin) and the stained glass windows are competing with them.
The Italian chapel doesn't look much from the outside but it is pretty good because the main painting was done from a postcard.
Skara Brae, I don't need to say anything about theat although you aren't actuallly allowed to walk through the houses themselves(in the interests of preserving the 5, 000 year old village) They have a really good replica housefor you to go in and look at.
There are many more and I'll leave you to see them fot yourselves. (you'll want to look scapa flow if we pass it!)

Sean

3.26.2008

We've just finished our Spanner Planners,
Ready to take to Orkney with us!
A big thankyou to Al for all his help.
And also to Ruth!

The trip to orkney is going to be super!
It will be a great experience for us all..
Looking forwark to it :)

The Final Bolt

The pages have been ordered and the nuts tightened - finally the Spanner Planners are finished.
An extra workshop with Ruth will be planned for those who were unable to attend the binding workshop.

The books look great and quite industrial due to the vast number of pages!!!!
The beauty of these books is that they can expand and grow with you, and as you all have extensions for your nuts and bolts binding, the sky is the limit as far as binding in new elements.
Al and I hope you all have fun filling them with your thoughts and ideas! - Ruth

Jamie


Heather


Natalie


Joanna


Al


Even Ruth got to make one!


Ben

Leanne


Gillian


Bethan

3.13.2008

The Spanner Planner

After 4 workshops, planning and designing, the spanner planner has finally gone to print!
Below are proofs of all the pages that the group designed and selected.
The book should be back from the printers next week, ready to be bound, covered and for the individual insert pages to be added. What d'you think?

The nuts and bolts binding will be placed where you see the crosses on the left hand side of the pages.

Title page

Contacts

Calendar

Dot grid

Film reviews

Map of Scotland

Map of the World

Music manuscript

Mind map

Line grid

Notes

DVD/CD

Sponsors