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POETRY MAPS

Funded by the Arts-Council and working with the British Library, this project combines poetry, cartography, illustration and psycho-geography to create 'poetry maps': formations of illustrations, photographs and text representing how physical spaces become places.

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Winterbourne House and Gardens, Emotional Mapping Workshop w/ @granduniongallery and @unibirmingham students, May 2024

Commissioned as part of Grand Union's current exhibition, 'Love is Real, and it's Inside of My Computer', I ran a mapping workshop at Winterbourne Gardens in early May. We considered how people respond differently to the spaces they inhabit; it was a lovely sunny day with a great bunch of people who really got into the prompts and the creation of their own maps.

Now you can do the same through the accompanying 'FLAT-PACK' workshop you'll find on Grand Union's website and my own. You can LISTEN to an audio-guide that supports a walk around Winterbourne Gardens, and CREATE your own map of the gardens using the supporting 'flat-pack' map. Tag me, Grand Union and Winterbourne into any images of your maps - it would be lovely to see how people have responded to the space.

#poetrymaps #mapping #winterbournegardens #winterbournemap

Winterbourne House and Gardens, Emotional Mapping Workshop w/ @granduniongallery and @unibirmingham students, May 2024

Commissioned as part of Grand Union's current exhibition, 'Love is Real, and it's Inside of My Computer', I ran a mapping workshop at Winterbourne Gardens in early May. We considered how people respond differently to the spaces they inhabit; it was a lovely sunny day with a great bunch of people who really got into the prompts and the creation of their own maps.

Now you can do the same through the accompanying 'FLAT-PACK' workshop you'll find on Grand Union's website and my own. You can LISTEN to an audio-guide that supports a walk around Winterbourne Gardens, and CREATE your own map of the gardens using the supporting 'flat-pack' map. Tag me, Grand Union and Winterbourne into any images of your maps - it would be lovely to see how people have responded to the space.

#poetrymaps #mapping #winterbournegardens #winterbournemap

West Bromwich High Street, 'Green Roots' Project w/ @multistory, April 2024

Here are some screenshots from my poetry map and score of West Bromwich High Street and its surrounding environs. It was great to work with @lopratirenzo and #sandwellvisuallyimpaired to record the sounds of the area and transcribe them into the music you can see on the map.

The map is physical (1.5m x 1.5m) and digital, with an interactive playable version housed on Multistory's website (thanks to Jacob Masters for digital support); it has also been audio described by the good people at @soundscribe_accessibility and should be up and running in the next week or so. You can find it through my website...

Next, we'll be looking to have a 'performance' of the map. Details of a procession through West Brom and a 'story-time' - style musical performance are being finalised, but it'll probably take place on the 13th Sep to coincide with the cutting of West Brom's newly created urban meadow!

Thanks to Multistory for putting the project together.

#westbrom #poetrymaps #soundrecording #graphicscore #walking #mapping

West Bromwich High Street, 'Green Roots' Project w/ @multistory, April 2024

Here are some screenshots from my poetry map and score of West Bromwich High Street and its surrounding environs. It was great to work with @lopratirenzo and #sandwellvisuallyimpaired to record the sounds of the area and transcribe them into the music you can see on the map.

The map is physical (1.5m x 1.5m) and digital, with an interactive playable version housed on Multistory's website (thanks to Jacob Masters for digital support); it has also been audio described by the good people at @soundscribe_accessibility and should be up and running in the next week or so. You can find it through my website...

Next, we'll be looking to have a 'performance' of the map. Details of a procession through West Brom and a 'story-time' - style musical performance are being finalised, but it'll probably take place on the 13th Sep to coincide with the cutting of West Brom's newly created urban meadow!

Thanks to Multistory for putting the project together.

#westbrom #poetrymaps #soundrecording #graphicscore #walking #mapping

Workshop Menu, Artefact's 'In-Limbo' Xmas Celebration, Verbena Restaurant, Stirchley, 14.00-15.30, 9 Dec 2023.

A (very) brief overview of the FREE workshop taking place @verbenakitchen on Saturday.

We'll be dining on memories of meals, eating our way into the Underworld, and back again, with the help of tinctures, tisanes and libations.

If you want to come and write, drop me a message here. There is no requirement to read. Many thanks to @chlo.equreshi for being an accomodating host and offering some excellent ideas!

Also, there is a whole host of other workshops taking place on that day at venues across Stirchley - check out @artefactprojects for more details.

#birmingham #poetryworkshop #poetrymaps

(Verbena photo - @babbshootsit)

Workshop Menu, Artefact's 'In-Limbo' Xmas Celebration, Verbena Restaurant, Stirchley, 14.00-15.30, 9 Dec 2023.

A (very) brief overview of the FREE workshop taking place @verbenakitchen on Saturday.

We'll be dining on memories of meals, eating our way into the Underworld, and back again, with the help of tinctures, tisanes and libations.

If you want to come and write, drop me a message here. There is no requirement to read. Many thanks to @chlo.equreshi for being an accomodating host and offering some excellent ideas!

Also, there is a whole host of other workshops taking place on that day at venues across Stirchley - check out @artefactprojects for more details.

#birmingham #poetryworkshop #poetrymaps

(Verbena photo - @babbshootsit)

'Elan to Birmingham', Elan Links commission, The Elan Valley & Birmingham, 2023.

This poetry map charts the course of the Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA) which delivers potable water from The Elan Valley, Powys, to Birmingham. It considers how the large-scale damming project forever altered ways of life in Mid-Wales and my home city.

Infrastructure projects of this nature touch upon so many major social and political themes - Imperialism, Class, Industrialisation - that I thought it best to focus on human responses to the aqueduct at the time of the intervention into the river valleys of the Claerwen and Elan, and today. As such, the map uses Found Poetry from historical texts, research texts, images and motifs from the Elan Valley archive, and contemporary responses from workshoppers @caradtimescape in Rhayader and @mac_birmingham in Birmingham.

Thank you to @slay.me.rosie for all of your support thoughout the year, to @elanlinks and to the workshoppers who took part in the project.

For the full map, check out my website, and stay tuned for a physical exhibition at some point in 2024.

#elanvalleyaqueduct #poetrymaps #cofiwchcwmelan

'Elan to Birmingham', Elan Links commission, The Elan Valley & Birmingham, 2023.

This poetry map charts the course of the Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA) which delivers potable water from The Elan Valley, Powys, to Birmingham. It considers how the large-scale damming project forever altered ways of life in Mid-Wales and my home city.

Infrastructure projects of this nature touch upon so many major social and political themes - Imperialism, Class, Industrialisation - that I thought it best to focus on human responses to the aqueduct at the time of the intervention into the river valleys of the Claerwen and Elan, and today. As such, the map uses Found Poetry from historical texts, research texts, images and motifs from the Elan Valley archive, and contemporary responses from workshoppers @caradtimescape in Rhayader and @mac_birmingham in Birmingham.

Thank you to @slay.me.rosie for all of your support thoughout the year, to @elanlinks and to the workshoppers who took part in the project.

For the full map, check out my website, and stay tuned for a physical exhibition at some point in 2024.

#elanvalleyaqueduct #poetrymaps #cofiwchcwmelan

'Green Roots' Project, West Bromwich High St. / Dartmouth Park, Oct-Nov 2023

@multistory #greenroots project for 2023/24 is going strong. Two recent workshops with the local group #sandwellvisuallyimpaired saw us collect the various sounds of Dartmouth Park and the West Bromwich High St. (thx to @rene__fm and #aliceo'rourke); I then spent yesterday working with the genuinely impressive maestro @lopratirenzo as he turned these sounds into music, and eventually, musical notation. This will then be placed onto a map of the area so that the High St and the park can be 'played' as a piece of music. This is likely to be performed on the High St. Summer 2024.

#westbrom #poetrymaps #soundrecording #foundsound #walking

'Green Roots' Project, West Bromwich High St. / Dartmouth Park, Oct-Nov 2023

@multistory #greenroots project for 2023/24 is going strong. Two recent workshops with the local group #sandwellvisuallyimpaired saw us collect the various sounds of Dartmouth Park and the West Bromwich High St. (thx to @rene__fm and #aliceo'rourke); I then spent yesterday working with the genuinely impressive maestro @lopratirenzo as he turned these sounds into music, and eventually, musical notation. This will then be placed onto a map of the area so that the High St and the park can be 'played' as a piece of music. This is likely to be performed on the High St. Summer 2024.

#westbrom #poetrymaps #soundrecording #foundsound #walking

'Change is Coming' Exhibition, West Bromwich High St., June 2023

@multistory #greenroots exhibition currently taking place on the West Brom High St. Some excellent photography from the students of @sandwell.college supported by @kategreenphotog, poems from #roymcfarlane, @emmapurshouse and it was really enjoyable to support #sandwellvisuallyimpaired group to write poems based on the flora of the area.

#westbromwich #midlands #poetry #photography #poems

'Change is Coming' Exhibition, West Bromwich High St., June 2023

@multistory #greenroots exhibition currently taking place on the West Brom High St. Some excellent photography from the students of @sandwell.college supported by @kategreenphotog, poems from #roymcfarlane, @emmapurshouse and it was really enjoyable to support #sandwellvisuallyimpaired group to write poems based on the flora of the area.

#westbromwich #midlands #poetry #photography #poems

Saturday 17th June & Monday 19th June, 11-13, Elan Valley Workshops

Two poetry mapping workshops around the voices of the Elan Valley. We'll write, draw and produce artworks that consider the layers of history, politics, ecology and geography of the Elenydd region.

Sign up using these URLs -

Sat - (meeting at Penbont House) https://elanvalley.org.uk/events/poetry-maps-walk/

Mon (meeting at CARAD, Rhayader) -https://elanvalley.org.uk/events/poetry-maps-workshop/

#poetrymaps #elanvalley #cymru #poetry #writingcommunity #mapping

@elanlinks @caradtimescape

Saturday 17th June & Monday 19th June, 11-13, Elan Valley Workshops

Two poetry mapping workshops around the voices of the Elan Valley. We'll write, draw and produce artworks that consider the layers of history, politics, ecology and geography of the Elenydd region.

Sign up using these URLs -

Sat - (meeting at Penbont House) https://elanvalley.org.uk/events/poetry-maps-walk/

Mon (meeting at CARAD, Rhayader) -https://elanvalley.org.uk/events/poetry-maps-workshop/

#poetrymaps #elanvalley #cymru #poetry #writingcommunity #mapping

@elanlinks @caradtimescape

'This is a good place...', Jean Harrison Commission, The Museum of North Craven Life, Settle, Yorkshire, May 2023.

This poetry map was commissioned to commemorate the life and work of the poet and novelist, Jean Harrison.

The labyrinth uses phrases from Jean's four poetry books and two novels to create a poem; the constellations refer to the places that she lived throughout the UK and in Ghana.

The piece is being exhibited at the museum (also know as The Folly @thesettlefolly) from 8th July to 30th September 2023 alongside a host of other pieces that take inspiration from Jean's work.

It was pleasure reading through Jean's books. I felt that I got to understand a little of her worldview, and I hope that the work does her memory justice.

#poetrymaps #jeanharrison #poetry #artwork #settle #yorkshire

'This is a good place...', Jean Harrison Commission, The Museum of North Craven Life, Settle, Yorkshire, May 2023.

This poetry map was commissioned to commemorate the life and work of the poet and novelist, Jean Harrison.

The labyrinth uses phrases from Jean's four poetry books and two novels to create a poem; the constellations refer to the places that she lived throughout the UK and in Ghana.

The piece is being exhibited at the museum (also know as The Folly @thesettlefolly) from 8th July to 30th September 2023 alongside a host of other pieces that take inspiration from Jean's work.

It was pleasure reading through Jean's books. I felt that I got to understand a little of her worldview, and I hope that the work does her memory justice.

#poetrymaps #jeanharrison #poetry #artwork #settle #yorkshire

Elan Valley Poetry Mapping Workshop #1, 20th May 2023, 11am -1pm @mac_birmingham

Elan Valley Poetry Mapping Workshop #2, 16th July 2023, 11am - 1pm @mac_birmingham

If you're interested in the processes of water, and how Birmingham is deeply connected to the Elan and Claerwen Valleys of Powys, mid-Wales, then this is the workshop for you.

We'll be writing, weaving and mapping in response to the Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA): the pipeline that supplies Birmingham with water of 'pristine purity', and for which two valleys were flooded, and a way of life ended.

The workshop is free, but ticketed - search - 'Poetry Maps Mac' and you'll get to both links on the Midlands Art Centre website.

This is a project run by @dwrcymruwelshwater and @elanlinks, and is leading up to the #Watershed exhibition

#maps #poetrymaps #poetrymapping #elanvalley #art #workshops

Elan Valley Poetry Mapping Workshop #1, 20th May 2023, 11am -1pm @mac_birmingham

Elan Valley Poetry Mapping Workshop #2, 16th July 2023, 11am - 1pm @mac_birmingham

If you're interested in the processes of water, and how Birmingham is deeply connected to the Elan and Claerwen Valleys of Powys, mid-Wales, then this is the workshop for you.

We'll be writing, weaving and mapping in response to the Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA): the pipeline that supplies Birmingham with water of 'pristine purity', and for which two valleys were flooded, and a way of life ended.

The workshop is free, but ticketed - search - 'Poetry Maps Mac' and you'll get to both links on the Midlands Art Centre website.

This is a project run by @dwrcymruwelshwater and @elanlinks, and is leading up to the #Watershed exhibition

#maps #poetrymaps #poetrymapping #elanvalley #art #workshops

Mapping Workshops, @vitalsigns2023 Exhibition (by @judith.alder) @rbsagallery, February 2023.

Some images from work made by myself and others across two workshops looking at interconnections, ecology and symbolism in response to Judith's exhibition at the RBSA.

It was wonderful to work with Judith and learn from her. It was also great to work with Dr. Alex Penn on one of the two workshops - along with a really engaged group of workshoppers, we concluded that it was possible that the city of Birmingham acts as an organism, but that this couldn't be certain, and conclusions were rarely conclusive. Which I think is pretty certain.

Thanks to @sannamoore0 and all the participants. (and @aceagrams for keeping those workshops free.)

#art #rbsa #poetrymaps #poetrymapping #poetrydiagrams #mapping #birmingham #poetry #workshops #drawing #erratics #warstone #deeptime #hockley #jewelleryquarter #organism #city #maptastic #artworks #walkingworkshop #symbolism #cartography

Mapping Workshops, @vitalsigns2023 Exhibition (by @judith.alder) @rbsagallery, February 2023.

Some images from work made by myself and others across two workshops looking at interconnections, ecology and symbolism in response to Judith's exhibition at the RBSA.

It was wonderful to work with Judith and learn from her. It was also great to work with Dr. Alex Penn on one of the two workshops - along with a really engaged group of workshoppers, we concluded that it was possible that the city of Birmingham acts as an organism, but that this couldn't be certain, and conclusions were rarely conclusive. Which I think is pretty certain.

Thanks to @sannamoore0 and all the participants. (and @aceagrams for keeping those workshops free.)

#art #rbsa #poetrymaps #poetrymapping #poetrydiagrams #mapping #birmingham #poetry #workshops #drawing #erratics #warstone #deeptime #hockley #jewelleryquarter #organism #city #maptastic #artworks #walkingworkshop #symbolism #cartography

Four free mapping workshops incoming!

Inspired by the work of @judith.alder @vitalsigns2023, I'll be running two days of mapping workshops @rbsagallery on 18/02/23 & 23/02/23.

From 10:45 on Saturday 18th February, along with Evolutionary Biologist, Dr. Alex Penn, we'll explore the question of whether the city is a living organism by walking around the Jewellery Quarter and city centre' we'll be discovering the city's origins, ecology and interconnections. Then at 14:15, we'll be in the RBSA looking at how to create maps of our findings.

And on Thursday 23rd February, there will be two sessions (11:00 & 14:00) based at the RBSA on the idea of mapping yourself; what would that look like? And how would you represent the space around you?

Sessions are free, but do book; link in bio.

#art #mapping #rbsa #judithalder #vitalsigns2023 #poetrymapping #poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #illustration #maps #jewelleryquarter #birmingham #ecology #interconnection #drawing #photography #walkingworkshops #workshops

Four free mapping workshops incoming!

Inspired by the work of @judith.alder @vitalsigns2023, I'll be running two days of mapping workshops @rbsagallery on 18/02/23 & 23/02/23.

From 10:45 on Saturday 18th February, along with Evolutionary Biologist, Dr. Alex Penn, we'll explore the question of whether the city is a living organism by walking around the Jewellery Quarter and city centre' we'll be discovering the city's origins, ecology and interconnections. Then at 14:15, we'll be in the RBSA looking at how to create maps of our findings.

And on Thursday 23rd February, there will be two sessions (11:00 & 14:00) based at the RBSA on the idea of mapping yourself; what would that look like? And how would you represent the space around you?

Sessions are free, but do book; link in bio.

#art #mapping #rbsa #judithalder #vitalsigns2023 #poetrymapping #poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #illustration #maps #jewelleryquarter #birmingham #ecology #interconnection #drawing #photography #walkingworkshops #workshops

Some screen capture from the Netherton Creative Map.

Click the link in the bio to travel around the map and find all the clickable content (in red). There are over forty different videos, images and sound recordings to find: the memories, recordings and messages for the future from the people of Netherton and its surroundings.

@hatchardfilms @colabdudley @creativeblackcountry @aceagrams @dudleymbc

This project was led by Lee Mackenzie and Lauren Hatchard, and funded by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council; it was supported by Creative Black Country, as part of Arts Council England's Creative People and Places scheme, and CoLab Dudley.

#art #artist #poetry #poetrymaps #communityprojects #netherton #dudley # illustration #mapping #communitymapping #interactive #digitalmap #film #photography #bumblehole #warrenshallnaturereserve #standrewschurch #mapardoes

Some screen capture from the Netherton Creative Map.

Click the link in the bio to travel around the map and find all the clickable content (in red). There are over forty different videos, images and sound recordings to find: the memories, recordings and messages for the future from the people of Netherton and its surroundings.

@hatchardfilms @colabdudley @creativeblackcountry @aceagrams @dudleymbc

This project was led by Lee Mackenzie and Lauren Hatchard, and funded by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council; it was supported by Creative Black Country, as part of Arts Council England's Creative People and Places scheme, and CoLab Dudley.

#art #artist #poetry #poetrymaps #communityprojects #netherton #dudley # illustration #mapping #communitymapping #interactive #digitalmap #film #photography #bumblehole #warrenshallnaturereserve #standrewschurch #mapardoes

The Netherton Creative Map is now available online. Through interviews and workshops, we gathered memories, recordings and messages for the future to create a community-based artwork. It is interactive so get onto the bio link and click away to find all of the easter eggs amongst the map of Netherton and its surroundings.

Thanks to everyone involved in the project. It was a lovely warming project to undertake and we hope it brought a little reflection and joy to everyone involved.

With love @poetrymaps and @hatchardfilms

#artwork #art #dudley #digitalmap #netherton #nethertoncreativemap #illustration #communityart #workshops #poetrymaps #poetryart #poemfilm #film #interview #creativeblackcountry #colabdudley #eastereggs #mixedmedia #community #engagement #walkingworkshop #collections #bumblehole #naturereserve #merryhill

The Netherton Creative Map is now available online. Through interviews and workshops, we gathered memories, recordings and messages for the future to create a community-based artwork. It is interactive so get onto the bio link and click away to find all of the easter eggs amongst the map of Netherton and its surroundings.

Thanks to everyone involved in the project. It was a lovely warming project to undertake and we hope it brought a little reflection and joy to everyone involved.

With love @poetrymaps and @hatchardfilms

#artwork #art #dudley #digitalmap #netherton #nethertoncreativemap #illustration #communityart #workshops #poetrymaps #poetryart #poemfilm #film #interview #creativeblackcountry #colabdudley #eastereggs #mixedmedia #community #engagement #walkingworkshop #collections #bumblehole #naturereserve #merryhill

Slides, 'Poetry Mapping & The Research Journey', Talk, Eccles Centre, British Library, Friday 12 August.

These are some slides from my recent talk at the BL. There is a video linked in my bio if you'd like to hear about my art practice and the research journey I've been on over the last 6 months.

A happy sea change.

#poetrymaps #poetrymapping #poetry #mapping #maps #britishlibrary #ecclescentre #mi'kma'ki #researchjourney #reflection #processoverobject #artmapping #artinstagram #art #artpractice #concretepoetry #gta3 #mi'kma'ki #theridgewherethegoatjumpoff

@britishlibrary

Slides, 'Poetry Mapping & The Research Journey', Talk, Eccles Centre, British Library, Friday 12 August.

These are some slides from my recent talk at the BL. There is a video linked in my bio if you'd like to hear about my art practice and the research journey I've been on over the last 6 months.

A happy sea change.

#poetrymaps #poetrymapping #poetry #mapping #maps #britishlibrary #ecclescentre #mi'kma'ki #researchjourney #reflection #processoverobject #artmapping #artinstagram #art #artpractice #concretepoetry #gta3 #mi'kma'ki #theridgewherethegoatjumpoff

@britishlibrary

Summer Scholars Talk, Eccles Centre, British Library, Friday 12 August, 12-30 - 13.30

A week today, I'm at the @britishlibrary talking about a period of research around my art practice of Poetry Mapping.

Areas within in the talk:

Khadambi Asalache / 575 Wandsworth Road / Poetry v Maps / Objects v Processes / GTA 3 / Concrete Poetry / David Bowie / Captain James Cook / The wonderful Book - This Language of This Land, Mi'kma'ki by Trudy Sable & Bernie Francis / When to Map, when not / a Plea to the British Library.

Talk is in person at the British Library in the Entrance Hall Bookshop.

#poetrymaps #poetrymapping #poetry #mapping #maps #britishlibrary #ecclescentre #talks #processes #art #artmapping #gta3 #khadambiasalache #575wandsworthroad #davidbowie #mi'kma'ki #mi'kmaq #collections #archives #libraries

Summer Scholars Talk, Eccles Centre, British Library, Friday 12 August, 12-30 - 13.30

A week today, I'm at the @britishlibrary talking about a period of research around my art practice of Poetry Mapping.

Areas within in the talk:

Khadambi Asalache / 575 Wandsworth Road / Poetry v Maps / Objects v Processes / GTA 3 / Concrete Poetry / David Bowie / Captain James Cook / The wonderful Book - This Language of This Land, Mi'kma'ki by Trudy Sable & Bernie Francis / When to Map, when not / a Plea to the British Library.

Talk is in person at the British Library in the Entrance Hall Bookshop.

#poetrymaps #poetrymapping #poetry #mapping #maps #britishlibrary #ecclescentre #talks #processes #art #artmapping #gta3 #khadambiasalache #575wandsworthroad #davidbowie #mi'kma'ki #mi'kmaq #collections #archives #libraries

Netherton Time Capsule Walk, Sat. 16th July, Netherton.

A couple of images from our recent 'walk'shop around Netherton's green spaces and waterways.

Participants recorded their surroundings through a variety of mediums - collecting, photographing, drawing, writing, rubbings - and were asked to encapsulate the place as it existed on the day we explored.

These photos of the walk are in chronological order so you can go on the walk too... but they'll be more to come with the Netherton Creative Map, launching late September 2022.

Special shout out to Ty, a young lad who shone with his inquisitiveness, and documented everything in a green notebook, his favourite colour.

@hatchardfilms

The project is funded by @dudleymbc and supported by @creativeblackcountry as part of @acegrams Creative People and Places scheme, and @colabdudley.

#Netherton #Dudley #walkshop #art #artinstagram #poetrymaps
#poetrywalks #poetry #bumblehole #westmidlands #photography #nethertoncreativemap #film #videopoem #workshop #mapping #drawing #timecapsule #community

Netherton Time Capsule Walk, Sat. 16th July, Netherton.

A couple of images from our recent 'walk'shop around Netherton's green spaces and waterways.

Participants recorded their surroundings through a variety of mediums - collecting, photographing, drawing, writing, rubbings - and were asked to encapsulate the place as it existed on the day we explored.

These photos of the walk are in chronological order so you can go on the walk too... but they'll be more to come with the Netherton Creative Map, launching late September 2022.

Special shout out to Ty, a young lad who shone with his inquisitiveness, and documented everything in a green notebook, his favourite colour.

@hatchardfilms

The project is funded by @dudleymbc and supported by @creativeblackcountry as part of @acegrams Creative People and Places scheme, and @colabdudley.

#Netherton #Dudley #walkshop #art #artinstagram #poetrymaps
#poetrywalks #poetry #bumblehole #westmidlands #photography #nethertoncreativemap #film #videopoem #workshop #mapping #drawing #timecapsule #community

Netherton Map, June 2022

A #qgis produced map, coloured using @graffcityuk acrylic pens for #nethertoncreativemap project, working with @hatchardfilms and supported/commissioned by @creativeblackcountry @dudleymbc @colabdudley for #summerofcreativity

Thanks for the tip on the pens @workandplaystudios ! (And check out Gerry's better use of them.)

#Netherton #mapping #artist #artwork #poetrymaps #poetry #graffcity #acrylicpens #qgismaps #map #dudley #blackcountry

Netherton Map, June 2022

A #qgis produced map, coloured using @graffcityuk acrylic pens for #nethertoncreativemap project, working with @hatchardfilms and supported/commissioned by @creativeblackcountry @dudleymbc @colabdudley for #summerofcreativity

Thanks for the tip on the pens @workandplaystudios ! (And check out Gerry's better use of them.)

#Netherton #mapping #artist #artwork #poetrymaps #poetry #graffcity #acrylicpens #qgismaps #map #dudley #blackcountry

Walkshop!

Join me and @hatchardfilms on a free creative walkshop around Netherton on Sat. 16th July, 10 - 1pm.

We will ask you to record/map the present sense of Netherton for a digital time capsule.

Starting at St Peters Church in Darby End, we will follow a route that takes in the green spaces and waterways, churches and streets of Netherton, and you will be encouraged to respond to landmarks through prompts.

You could take photos on your smart phone, write in a detective's notepad, draw on a map or collect (flowers, leaves, odds, rubbish etc.) - all the while responding to the place as it feels and exists now. There is no artistic experience necessary.

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@creativeblackcountry

#creative #netherton #blackcountry #poetrymaps #mapping #photography #westmidlands #map #bumblehole #walkshop #workshop #nethertonreservoir #dudley #walking #poetry # film #creativewriting

Walkshop!

Join me and @hatchardfilms on a free creative walkshop around Netherton on Sat. 16th July, 10 - 1pm.

We will ask you to record/map the present sense of Netherton for a digital time capsule.

Starting at St Peters Church in Darby End, we will follow a route that takes in the green spaces and waterways, churches and streets of Netherton, and you will be encouraged to respond to landmarks through prompts.

You could take photos on your smart phone, write in a detective's notepad, draw on a map or collect (flowers, leaves, odds, rubbish etc.) - all the while responding to the place as it feels and exists now. There is no artistic experience necessary.

SIGN UP TO LINK IN BIO

@creativeblackcountry

#creative #netherton #blackcountry #poetrymaps #mapping #photography #westmidlands #map #bumblehole #walkshop #workshop #nethertonreservoir #dudley #walking #poetry # film #creativewriting

Jewels in the Dark, June '22

Film screening at @andyhowlett88 's Magic Cinema, Artefact, Stirchley.

Jewels in the Dark is a video poem, commissioned by @durhampsychology in relation to the #athenaswan charter, recognising gender equality in the workplace.

Jewels in the Dark’ begins and ends with a central message:

‘If we exclude a person’s gaze we view the world with one less heart; an equal betrayed for more jewels in the dark’

This message takes the form of poetry arranged as a pangrammatic window: across the three lines, each letter of the English language is used. The content of the message asks the audience to consider the nature of exclusion; what is lost when a single view is removed from consideration? The answer is then developed through a series of eight narrated poetry vignettes.

Using visual imagery, audio soundscapes and psychological techniques, each vignette develops into a multi-sensory poem devised from words selected from the piece’s central message.The layering of imagery, and the placement and animation of text, references visual perception techniques, illusions, image processing, subliminal messages and colour associations, to both purposefully contradict and enhance the meaning of the text.

The visual, audio and lexical readability is obscured, intended to disorientate, with increasing deconstruction of the screen, challenging the viewer to question the content and their understanding of it. The truth of multiple perspectives are presented, in order to elicit the questioning of preconceived ideas and stereotypes, highlighting the consequences of exclusion.

By combining figurative footage with that of the natural world, and more abstract imagery, there is an implied ambiguity of scale, leading us to notions of unity and connectivity from the microcosm to the macrocosm.

The accompanying soundscape leads the mind via the body: breathing, beating, speaking and finally, dreaming towards the piece’s climax: an immersive love song dedicated to Earth, its workers and the many jewels in the dark still waiting to be seen.

Visuals - @studioalexandracarr
Sounds - @lnrs87
Poetry - me!

Watch in full here: https://youtu.be/nPagRf_JV2o

Jewels in the Dark, June '22

Film screening at @andyhowlett88 's Magic Cinema, Artefact, Stirchley.

Jewels in the Dark is a video poem, commissioned by @durhampsychology in relation to the #athenaswan charter, recognising gender equality in the workplace.

Jewels in the Dark’ begins and ends with a central message:

‘If we exclude a person’s gaze we view the world with one less heart; an equal betrayed for more jewels in the dark’

This message takes the form of poetry arranged as a pangrammatic window: across the three lines, each letter of the English language is used. The content of the message asks the audience to consider the nature of exclusion; what is lost when a single view is removed from consideration? The answer is then developed through a series of eight narrated poetry vignettes.

Using visual imagery, audio soundscapes and psychological techniques, each vignette develops into a multi-sensory poem devised from words selected from the piece’s central message.The layering of imagery, and the placement and animation of text, references visual perception techniques, illusions, image processing, subliminal messages and colour associations, to both purposefully contradict and enhance the meaning of the text.

The visual, audio and lexical readability is obscured, intended to disorientate, with increasing deconstruction of the screen, challenging the viewer to question the content and their understanding of it. The truth of multiple perspectives are presented, in order to elicit the questioning of preconceived ideas and stereotypes, highlighting the consequences of exclusion.

By combining figurative footage with that of the natural world, and more abstract imagery, there is an implied ambiguity of scale, leading us to notions of unity and connectivity from the microcosm to the macrocosm.

The accompanying soundscape leads the mind via the body: breathing, beating, speaking and finally, dreaming towards the piece’s climax: an immersive love song dedicated to Earth, its workers and the many jewels in the dark still waiting to be seen.

Visuals - @studioalexandracarr
Sounds - @lnrs87
Poetry - me!

Watch in full here: https://youtu.be/nPagRf_JV2o

Interested?

https://form.jotform.com/221382809215050

Do you have any memories of Netherton, Dudley? Or any thoughts as to its future? The 'Netherton Creative Map' would love to hear from you.

Please fill out the form (linked above)!

'The Netherton Creative Map is an interactive digital artwork that focuses on the past, present and future of Netherton. It celebrates the area's green spaces, waterways, people and stories through workshops and a collaborative digital artwork.'

The project is being led by Lee Mackenzie and Lauren Hatchard, and funded by @dudleymbc and supported by @creativeblackcountry, as part of @aceagrams Creative People and Places scheme, and @colabdudley.

#arts #artstagram #poetry #poetrymaps #videopoem #digitalmapping #photography #netherton #dudley #bumblehole #westmidlands #memories #workshops #cutedogs #nethertoncreativemap #mapping #drawing #penandink #interactive #interactiveart #communities #poetrywalks #filmphotography #film

Interested?

https://form.jotform.com/221382809215050

Do you have any memories of Netherton, Dudley? Or any thoughts as to its future? The 'Netherton Creative Map' would love to hear from you.

Please fill out the form (linked above)!

'The Netherton Creative Map is an interactive digital artwork that focuses on the past, present and future of Netherton. It celebrates the area's green spaces, waterways, people and stories through workshops and a collaborative digital artwork.'

The project is being led by Lee Mackenzie and Lauren Hatchard, and funded by @dudleymbc and supported by @creativeblackcountry, as part of @aceagrams Creative People and Places scheme, and @colabdudley.

#arts #artstagram #poetry #poetrymaps #videopoem #digitalmapping #photography #netherton #dudley #bumblehole #westmidlands #memories #workshops #cutedogs #nethertoncreativemap #mapping #drawing #penandink #interactive #interactiveart #communities #poetrywalks #filmphotography #film

Neon Issue 53 (The Cities Issue) Editorial Map, Nov 2021.

#pen #penandink #artistsoninstagram #artist #art #poetrymaps #poetry #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #newyank #chi-cack-o #losangelos #dycp

@neon_books_uk

Neon Issue 53 (The Cities Issue) Editorial Map, Nov 2021.

#pen #penandink #artistsoninstagram #artist #art #poetrymaps #poetry #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #newyank #chi-cack-o #losangelos #dycp

@neon_books_uk

'You Are the Fresh Breeze' Commission for @writerznscribez & @nationaltrust, July 2021.

#poetrymaps #poetrycommunity #artistsoninstagram #visualart #penandink #artofinstagram #575wandsworthroad #khadambiasalache #poetry #mapping #cartography #routethroughmap #artwork

'You Are the Fresh Breeze' Commission for @writerznscribez & @nationaltrust, July 2021.

#poetrymaps #poetrycommunity #artistsoninstagram #visualart #penandink #artofinstagram #575wandsworthroad #khadambiasalache #poetry #mapping #cartography #routethroughmap #artwork

Scratching, May 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #artistsoninstagram #sketching #visualart #poems #graphite #charcoaldrawing #scratch #scalpel #rudimentary #artofinstagram #artwork #drafting #learning

Scratching, May 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #artistsoninstagram #sketching #visualart #poems #graphite #charcoaldrawing #scratch #scalpel #rudimentary #artofinstagram #artwork #drafting #learning

Woven Maps #2(prep), May 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram #pastels #illustration #penandink #weaving #themapisnottheterritory

Woven Maps #2(prep), May 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram #pastels #illustration #penandink #weaving #themapisnottheterritory

Woven Maps (trial), May 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram #pastels #illustration #penandink #weaving #chequered #layers #colour #landscape #place

Woven Maps (trial), May 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram #pastels #illustration #penandink #weaving #chequered #layers #colour #landscape #place

The Triangle, Crystal Palace, May 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram #pastels #triangle #crystalpalace #londonskyline #westowhouse #library #westowhill #shard #illustration #penandink

The Triangle, Crystal Palace, May 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram #pastels #triangle #crystalpalace #londonskyline #westowhouse #library #westowhill #shard #illustration #penandink

Crystal Palace, April 2021

#poetrymaps #poetrywalks #poetrycommunity #poetry #videopoem #filming #triangle #crystalpalace #london #psychogeographyart #mapping #danteandtheyewtree

Crystal Palace, April 2021

#poetrymaps #poetrywalks #poetrycommunity #poetry #videopoem #filming #triangle #crystalpalace #london #psychogeographyart #mapping #danteandtheyewtree

Bentley Poetry Walk, Mar 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrywalks #writingprompts #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram #pastels #ink #sketching #visualart #redditch #swansbrook

Bentley Poetry Walk, Mar 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrywalks #writingprompts #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram #pastels #ink #sketching #visualart #redditch #swansbrook

Pastels Generic Attempt, Mar 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram @aceagrams #oilpastels #visualart #attempt #blending #sorefingers #france

Pastels Generic Attempt, Mar 2021

#poetrymaps #poetry #poetrycommunity #art #mapping #cartography #artistsoninstagram @aceagrams #oilpastels #visualart #attempt #blending #sorefingers #france

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Poem: Lee Mackenzie

Visuals: Adam Tyers

Sound: Leighton Rees

Redditch, Worcs

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Thanks to: Huw Rowlands; Katy Hawkins; Mark Dennis

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Netherton Creative Map
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Words: Lee Mackenzie

Visuals: Lauren Hatchard

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