Surprised to find myself doing another residency this weekend at the Koukan Gallery on Alexandra Park Rd, N10. I’ve managed to get my project in the AP and beyond Art Festival. I think I have more or less finished the first section bar a few small view insetions. Here’s a peak…
I have recently been visiting a variety of places to try to talk to different sectors of the community in regard to the project and how they can contribute paper towards it. I spoke to the Haringey Branch of the University of the 3rd Age last week and visited a Sure Start Centre today. It is a little odd going into venues where people gather with no express interest in art to talk to them about my work – it feels a bit like some sort of guerilla lecturing! Fortunately most people are polite enough to listen and some really engage with what I am trying to do – but it is hard to gage any follow up interest. I have set up a facebook community page
www.facebook.com/MappingMuswellAnN10PaperProject
and new likes are a useful indicator, but this kind of forum is not within the realms of the ordinary for some of my target audience -the older citizen or children under 13.
Any thoughts anyone?
Anya Beaumont is a sculptor who works in a variety of media recently focusing on recycled HDPE plastic. Her work is often site responsive and increasingly concerned with the natural world. She often explores the boundaries between drawing, painting and sculpture. Beaumont received her masters in Fine Art Theory and Practice from Middlesex University with Distinction in 2004 and was an artist in residence there from 2009 -2011. Currently artist in residence at Pound Arts, Wiltshire and Lecturer at Bristol School of Art.
