I can't breathe, Alison Carlier, 2021, wax, plater of Paris, resin 5cm x 5cm This small torso by Alison Carlier is sheltering on the facade of St Mary's Church. The writers for groving respond purely to the objects, and see them just as members of the public do, who come across the monuments when they are going about the town. In this instance, the writers are David Dougan and James McDermott. Broken in body but still unbowed, Your spirit lives on In the memories of those who loved you. You are still the boy of dreams And the man who aspired to be the best To the family and friends who knew you. If your memories are our memories Then your life is ours and you live on through us In an endless thread of life. We have no need of monuments to you Since you are deep inside us Where you cannot be defaced. David Dougan DISMEMBERMENT I don’t stare at you like an exhibit I see you your queer body how they’ve made you faceless to deny you your vision your voice how they’ve disarmed you to halt you from holding giving taking how they’ve made you groinless to wipe out your wanting how they’ve made you legless to stop you from rising running I see me just a head the world on my shoulders a heart in a taut self inflated chest you show me we survive dismemberment James McDermott Alison Carlier has an MA in Drawing from Wimbledon College of Arts. Her practice is wide ranging, informed by her experience working in occupational therapy and with a particular interest in voice - she won the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2014 for a sound piece. She was nominated for the Max Mara Prize for Women 2016, she was the grove artist in residence in 2015 and the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award Artist in 2016. Instagram @alisoncarlier Twitter @carlier_alison Facebook alison.carlier.5 www.alisoncarlier.com David Dougan had a career in journalism, television and arts management. He now concentrates on writing and lecturing, on history and art history. He is the author of a dozen books, including Bury St Edmunds: A Rebellious Town. James McDermott is a writer based in East Anglia represented by Independent Talent. He is an Associate Artist at Norwich Theatre Royal and Norwich Arts Centre. His play 'Time and Tide' was nominated for two Off West End Theatre Awards (Offies) including one for Best New Play. James has recently written new plays for a number of regional theatres, and is one of the writers on EastEnders. As a poet, James is widely published in poetry journals and magazines. His debut spoken word poetry collection 'Manatomy' is published by Burning Eye Books and was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2021. James has pamphlets forthcoming from Polari Press and Red Ceilings Press. Twitter @jamesliammcd Instagram @jamesmcdermott1993 Facebook James McDermotthttps://jamesmcdermottwriter.weebly.com
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Rod Bugg's delicate tracing paper structures form transitory memorials to special walks taken with friends. Remembering my final walk with Elaine in Puglia and Remembering a walk with Emma in bluebells sit lightly in the Pilgrims Herb Garden, the Abbey Gardens. Remembering my final walk with Elaine in Puglia All hazy sun drenched days must end in shade, And star kissed silent nights must bleach to white, And memories like photographs will fade, And morning's innocence mature to night. And so to stem the flood of time, I fold a paper shrine of gossamer and glue. Five even walls which seem too slight to hold the vastness of my memories of you. I rouge the faces with Sirocco born Saharan dust and track with pencil tip a map of Fireweed seed, by Bora blown, And seal your name in ink upon a lip Eternally this shimmering vessel's depths Will hold the secrets of our final steps. Tim Welton ELEMENTS We have exhausted earth and water as ways of remembering So I will make your monument out of other elements. A fountain of fire, to capture the movement of your passion, Your change, your restlessness, your inability to be confined. I will carve your statue out of air, and dress it in emperor’s clothes, to express that you are Inexpressible, essential and loved. Your portrait is in the ether, within the frame of my head, Spiritual, fleeting, at once impermanent and eternal. Natalie Low Rod Bugg is a sculptor who works primarily in clay and drawing. He has been represented by Galerie de Witte Voet, Amsterdam for many years, showing in June 2017 in 4 British Artistswith Martin Smith, Ken Eastman and Clare Twomey and was featured in the RAW Art Fair in 2014 and the forty years anniversary show in January 2015. In 2013 he had six pieces of work in the Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries and won the Humphreys Purchase Prize. In 2014 he had a solo exhibition at North House Gallery in Manningtree, Essex. Tim Welton is a theatre practitioner who, as an actor and director has worked on numerous productions including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Royal National Theatre) London Road (Royal National Theatre) Dancing at Lughnasa (Garrick Theatre) and Cabaret (Lyric and Savoy Theatre and National Tours). https://uk.linkedin.com/in/time-welton-3711742b Twitter @timwelton Facebook Time Welton Natalie Low enjoys putting words on paper and believes that everyone has a book of some sort inside them. She has published two chapbooks, Dementia (2015) and School Run (2017). She is a regular contributor to CollectConnect exhibitions, both as a writer and artist/maker. Instagram nat.low Facebook Natalie Low A limited edition of stickers by Irene Perez Hernandez mark repetitive endeavour in Risbygate Street, St Andrews Street South, The Market Place, Buttermarket, Hatter Street, Langton Place. More will be awarded over the next week.
You'll never know how hard I sweat and toil, My secret moves stay hidden from your eye, I hack and hoik my sods and hod my clay, And all unseen to any passers-by. I plough the gaps and cracks between the lines, The ordinary into art refined, Transforming civic tedium brick by brick, To monuments d'ennui, boredom enshrined. Don't sneak a prying glance to try and catch me working on my oeuvres, I conceal The graft which they demand and merely leave the prestadigitorial reveal. All you will see, propped snoozing on his spade, An orange vested workman at his trade. Tim Welton Irene Perez Hernandez studied in her native Spain before gaining an Erasmus Grant for an exchange programme at Middlesex University, and going on to study for an MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a sculptor, working in a wide range of media, seeking to redefine the relationship between sculpture and object, and challenge the conventions associated with the discipline. Recent residences include the Guest Studio of Cologne Culture Department. Cologne, Germany in 2019 and Artist in Residence at Taubenturm, Diessen am Ammersee, Germany in 2018. For further details see https://ireneperezhernandez.com Twitter IrenePerezH Tim Welton is a theatre practitioner who, as an actor and director has worked on numerous productions including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Royal National Theatre) London Road (Royal National Theatre) Dancing at Lughnasa (Garrick Theatre) and Cabaret (Lyric and Savoy Theatre and National Tours). He has written for theatre (Carnival UK) and online digital media (BBC Radio Jam), and a new musical commission with Three Pin Productions, the brainchild of West End Performer Ruthie Henshall and Musical Director Paul Schofield. Twitter @timwelton https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tim-welton-3711742b Sandra Lane sent Nose with the comment I strongly feel the overlooked and the everyday should be celebrated with monuments so I offer a nose, a literally overlooked part of the face. Nose is enjoying himself, in his element in the sensory garden in the Abbey Gardens. 1) Redintegrative memory. I always liked that word, redintegrative. Magicking the whole from a part. A madeleine soaked in lime tea gave birth to seven long, long books by Proust which I’ve never quite finished. And never will. The first couple of chapters of the first one were enough for me. 2) They say smell is often the most powerful trigger. My love lost her sense of smell and I didn’t realise how hard that was until it happened to me too. It’s nothing really: it’s not the crush of lungs collapsing or the terror of the confusion, of the cold, of the inability to stay in this world. But still: it’s the loss of access to unexpected worlds. Not all unexpected or forgotten worlds are good, though. 3) I can reconstruct the whole man (it’s a man, I think) from this nose. It’s a man who loved madeleines. Or Madeleines. Kevin Acott Sandra Lane worked as a journalist and a photographer prior to attending art school. She graduated from BA Fine Art Drawing at Camberwell College of Art in 2013 receiving the Camberwell Acme Studio Award. She completed an MFA Sculpture at the Slade School of Art in 2017 followed by the Slade Summer Residency and the Sydney Nolan Trust Residency. Recent projects include: Her Mit Projects, February 2020, Collyer Bristow Graduate Award Show, Exceptional, November 2019-February 2020, Trophy, Simsmith Gallery, July-August 2019, What Kind of Spirit is This, Simsmith Gallery May-June 2019. Twitter and Instagram @artysandralane www.sandra-lane.com Kevin Acott Kevin Acott is a writer, lecturer, whiskey lover, and Spurs sufferer. He’s a sort of left libertarian/sort of anarchist who feels strangely attracted to French chansons, Greenland and Joseph Conrad as he gets older. His publishing, blog and projects can be found at http://www.kevinacott.com/. Twitter @speranza6162 Instagram @speranza6162 Facebook Kev Acott Forget-me-not, Julia Manheim, 2021, tracing paper, staples, magnified seed images, sea sponge, mysotis seeds Remember to search out Forget-me-not by St Mary's Church, Honey Hill. We are very fortunate to have wild areas and relaxed gardens in the centre of Bury St Edmunds. Contained within the confines of a coffin Lie the seeds of a new life. Arnold might say ‘No life lives for ever’ We can retort ‘Nor does it ever die’. The thread of life is never-ending, Proud inheritor of the past and indomitable bearer into the future. So march on seeds of limitless scope And the kernels of limitless hope. David Dougan Julia Manheim is an artist and curator. She originally trained as a jeweller and became well known in the 1980's for her large-scale experimental jewellery and body wear. Since then, her work has encompassed sculpture, installation art and short films which can be viewed at: https://vimeo.com/user10128235. She has worked as lead artist on several public art projects. Throughout, her work has been distinguished by her close observation, ability to find interest in the seemingly mundane, a strong sense of colour and an interest in re-using discarded materials. She is the author of the Sustainable Jewellery book published by A&C Black. https://m2gallery.com/julia-manheim Manheim has rings in The Koch Collection, Swiss National Museum, Zurich, work in the National Museums Scotland Collection, inclusion in the book Jewelry Stories Museum of Art & Design, New York 2021. Member of PhD Selection Committee, Sint Lucas College of Art & Design, Antwerp, 2021 David Dougan had a career in journalism, television and arts management. He now concentrates on writing and lecturing, on history and art history. He is the author of a dozen books, including Bury St Edmunds: A Rebellious Town. |
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