Acts of Resistance, this year's theme for #groving, continues today with the placing of Bryan Benge's badge in the Buttermarket. Bringing home the bacon What a drag it is, not just mum and dad but the whole family, needing to pull together in a sterling effort to bring home the bacon, while revolution flourishes in the house and on the box – Liberty leading the people. We’re all right, we’re all white, but revolution is steadfastly going on beneath our calm exteriors. And left out in the cold we’re like a monument to our own struggle; taking back control, taking back ownership that’s what we voted for, but it looks like we’ll just have to get on with it, do it on our own, with incessant argument going on inside ‘The House’, between these four walls. Phil Barrett Bryan Benge has exhibited widely, including with the London Group, and recently in In The Dark, The Cello Factory, London; The Art of Caring, St Georges Hospital, London in 2018 and 2019; Penrith Gallery, St Ives; Pulchri Studio, The Hague. He has work in numerous private collections, and in the Tate Gallery Archive. See www.bryanbenge.co.uk
Phil Barrett taught art for 27 years, then retired to his home county of Norfolk where he concentrates on writing. He teaches creative writing, in schools and libraries across North Norfolk. He has won prizes and commendations in national competitions, and has been published in anthologies including In Protest: 150 poems for Human Rights (2013), Word Aid Anthologies Did I Tell You? (2010), and Not Only The Dark (2011), the Ink, Sweat and Tears webzine, and Poems in the Waiting Room in 2016 and 2019. In January 2017 he published a book of poems, Writing Me, about growing-up.
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This morning Eskild Beck's work was placed at three locations in the town; Abbeygate Street, Moyses Hall Museum and The Traverse. Her work Diversity is a multiple so that a number of people can take a piece. Diversity
Diversity celebrates difference; Includes imperfection, Values the various, Eccentric, extraordinary; Rejoices in rainbows, Sings solidarity, I nsists: be T rue to Yoursełf. Lynda Turbet I held a most distressing thought last night In dream I was a crystal bird Blinded by a pride so bright Ascend and soar and rise and more Shine high and never alight My luck to take a breath of glass And saved another night of endless flight Colours awoke my heart beat fast Your blank doves swallowed by the sun at last Ed Aruntus Eskild Beck trained in Copenhagen and New York. Her work is represented in museums and collections in Denmark, Germany, South Korea, Japan. For interesting exhibitions please see www.starflight.dk, including Kunsthals forårsudstilling, Copenhagen; Den fries Efterårsudstilling, Copenhagen; Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales; Cubeopen, Manchester; Artinternational, Zurich. Lynda Turbet observes the world from North Norfolk and tries make sense of it all through writing. Ed Aruntus published his first work in the Censored Zine in 2010 and has exhibited his work ever since at venues like the Contemporary Arts Research Unit in Oxford and the Museum of Futures in Surbiton. Earlier this year he was a writer for the Love Tokens and Bad Pennies exhibition with CollectConnect. See http://edarantus.blogspot.com/, twitter @edarantus groving launches tomorrow, as the first of seventeen fantastic small artworks is placed on the streets of Bury St Edmunds. Each day the situation of a new artwork will be revealed on this blog; find it, enjoy it, photograph it and post #groving.
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Barbara DouganI am an artist and the curator for grove and groving. This blog is groving online, and records the artworks placed on the streets of Bury St Edmunds along with responses to the work by commissioned writers. Archives
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