Faces of Art Soundscape

As you listen imagine you are in a very dark room, and that the pictures are projected onto the wall, the darkness is littered with colour from our artwork and the soundtrack surrounds you.

When we first started working on the Faces of Art project we learned to 'sign a rainbow' the project organically flowed back to this starting point, you will hear it throughout the track.

The voices belong to service users, staff and volunteers, again thanks to Kode9 for letting us sample one of his tracks for this piece.

The 'slide show' is made up of our altered digital photography work! It shows we're not afraid of colour!!

We'll be interested to hear what you think of this!

Exhibition review!

"The work was done by a group of young people aged between 18-28 who all come to the Tuesday afternoon group.
The staff Linda, Alanna and Nicole were brilliant at dancing.
The project was called Faces of Art. It was about being creative.
We worked as part of a group to make up a dance. "

"Me and my mum came for about an hour. I had a great time.
The video was of people dancing around the trees and doing dance movements at a bike park and the music was good on the film. It was done by Michelle's brother."

exhibition work....

Just a small sample of the photographic work on display at our exhibition!

These photo's were taken while we were doing our dance! WE think they're fab and say lots about how cool our project was!!

dance poems (in honour of our exhibition!)

Doing the dance made us feel
Alive, we jumped, we swayed, we bowed
New dance steps
Combined with our photographs
Everyone enjoyed our dance


Definitely the best
Artists and dancers
New ideas of pictures and movement
Clever and crazy group
Excellent exercise


These poems were written by members of the group that participated in the Faces of Art project.

Shine

Some time ago we held an exhibition,

it was unusual in that staff and service users all contributed written work which was used to create the soundtrack for a short film.

(I'm working on getting it up here for you to see)

The exhibition was titled 'SHINE', the written and art works were all based on things that shone, not just physical things like stars and jewellery, but moments in our lives, people, relationships, the metaphysical things that put light in our lives.

The collaged lanterns in this photograph were used to illuminate the exhibition.

I wanted to share it with you because it is an important part of the history of we are artists and poets, people who attended the exhibition obviously had preconceptions about what they would see, what 'disabled peoples art' would be like... I will never forget the exhilaration, the sheer joy and pleasure of watching people be surprised, impressed or embarrassed that their preconceived ideas could be so far from what they were experiencing!

It was a wonderful moment where the value of art, of creativity was understood and acknowledged, where we were all artists, all poets and all equal.