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Horsenden Hill visit

This Saturday artists involved in the collective will be visiting Horsenden
Hill, a park near Perivale in Ealing. We will be hearing about the council's
plans to make the park a more interesting place for visitors and taking some
photographs of the area. Hopefully the collective will do some work in the
park in the future. The park has a lot of history, from ancient hill forts
to second world war AA gun placements and has also been the setting for Dr
Who episodes. There is also a lot of old pottery and clay pipes that would
be great to use in mosaics. It should be an interesting visit!

Update...

Some new developments!

 

The collective has been approached by Supercare, an employment training programme in Acton, who are planning on setting up a  stall at the market. They have offered us some space on the stall to sell original pieces after they have been shown at the exhibition. We could also sell things that use artist's designs like bags, coffee mugs and T-shirts. Supercare will be telling the collective more about this at the next steering group on the 29th April.

 

The collective has also been approached by Ealing council about an exciting project in another park. Watch this space for more news!

 

All the funding we applied for has been approved and work can now start on the studio building. The building needs quite a lot doing to it. It needs a sink, electricity and the middle wall needs to be knocked down to make it one big studio room.

 

The artists are working hard on pieces for Brent Park Lodge animal centre's South American aviary which should be opening at the end of this month. Because we don't have a studio yet the artists are working at Support for Living's Breakaway service and Southall college. These pieces will be shown at the park when the aviary opens to show visitors the sort of work that will be created by the collective over the Summer.

 

At the moment we are still called Brent Lodge Park Art Collective, but this is quite a mouthful. If any of the artists in the collective can think of a better name, leave a comment on here or let Matt know!

Collective description

We are a collective of artists with and without learning disabilities.

The collective does not have ‘staff’ or ‘service users’ – we are all artists producing high quality pieces of work. Some artists provide others with practical support, but we all have an equal say when it comes to decisions about our artwork and decisions about how the collective works.

We have been offered a building in Brent Lodge Park animal centre as a studio in exchange for making pieces of artwork for the centre and the surrounding park.

The collective is planning to run for 5 months over the Summer of 2010. At the end of these 5 months in August, we will hold an exhibition of the pieces we have created. We would like members of the public to display some of their pieces alongside ours.

After the Summer exhibition we would like artists involved in the collective to decide what happens next. We already have some ideas:

• We could transform the collective into a business and some of the collective members could have paid jobs to run workshops so other people have the opportunity to create art for the animal centre and park.
• Artists involved in the collective could make decisions about how the business runs.
• We could have more exhibitions so artists can show off their work.
• We could see if it is possible to support artists to gain art qualifications
• We could help artists to get work experience and find paid jobs doing creative things.

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