Our next Art jamming event is Friday 30th May 2008 7-9pm Costing £5 each Bring a bottle of your favourite drink and come and have a fab evening creating using our weird and wonderful materials.
Colonel Badshot comes 3rd prize in Coventry's MAD UK design competition.
Junkart's creative team designed a costume for the MAD UK section "This Sporting Life" inspired by the Colonial figure of the 'great white hunter' not Captain Bagshot but Colonel Badshot. The Costume was made entirely from recycled materials and comprised of several animals that the colonel would miss as he tried to shoot them. Of course the animals always got the better of him. John Starkey modelled and preformed in the costume and the costume and idea was designed by Kate Morris, John Starkey and Shiam Wilcox.
Our First Art jamming
evening
Friday 25th April 7-9
Come and create with our
recycled materials
Meet other Artists in a
friendly environment
£
5 per person & Bring a bottle
of your favourite tipple
Limited places
RSVP
shiam@junkart.biz
In service training at reduced introductory rate!
We have the following training opportunities available
£ 10 per person
Friday 9th May 10-3
'Haute Couture scrap hats'
Make wearable sculptures to wow your friends and colleagues
Monday 12th May 10-3
'Changing rooms the Art of space transformation'
using our blank space create your own worlds, your imagination is the destination.
Wednesday 14th May 10-3
'Junkitecture'
Working together to build a large sculpture inspired by modern architecture
Ideal for team building and net working
All our workshop aim to promote recycling and waste management issues.
We advocate the use of inspiring ideas & techniques to use when back
in your own settings.
Limited places please respond to jean@junkart.biz
JUNKART Scrapstore
Recycling for Art
A new opportunity for Artists and creatives to access scrap materials has arisen
with the opening of a new scrap-store in Stretton-Under-Fosse, situated midway
between Coventry and Rugby.
The scrap-store intends to provide Artists/Makers with a wide variety of materials
that will aid them in their practice.
Anything from corks to cardboard, plastic bottles to beads, and lots of recycled
materials and unusual items will be available at a reasonable price.
The Scrap-store will be open to individual Artists, community groups and anyone
of a creative nature.
It will be part run by sculptress, Shiam Wilcox, Artist in residence alongside
Jean and Brian Cockayne who will act as Administrator and Resource manager, respectively.
Alongside the scrap-store the facility also offers studio space to rent for 3
Artists.
To encourage more people to think about waste, the intention is to continue to
develop community based projects to raise awareness of environmental issues through
art. As part of this there will be regular open studio and art project events.
Shiam, Jean and Brian hope that people will make use of this resource to develop
their art practice and add "We are here; Come and visit us".
For further information and membership details contact: Jean 07754787969
The scrapstore page is currently under construction and will be here shortly.
Arts Award
I am now a registered Arts award advisor for bronze and silver and can come
into schools to schools as an external advisor.
Play train bursary
This year I was lucky enough to receive a play train bursary to train to be a
creative consultant within schools. My residency involved working with newly
arrived young people in a senior school in Handsworth Birmingham to help the
school to find out how the school could help pupils arriving with little or
no English
language.
Recently finished residency at holy family school. click here
Residency at Wood Leigh school in May 07
Play Train creative consultation residency at St. John’s Wall secondary
school, Handsworth
Art in the park , Rugby find out more soon..............
Floating Cities Hidden Architecture - “A fascinating insight into the
hidden architecture of the canal systems of the Birmingham and Coventry Basins.
Following a series of workshops with young people, the artist Shiam Wilcox
will be showing the results at a special event on the Coventry Canal Basin
on 24th June Godiva carnival 07 - Coventry “ - www.architectureweek.org.uk
Art carnival 07 - Essex
JUNK ART to become an environmental arts organisation soon.....
I am currently working as an artist in residence at three Coventry schools as part of the 'What If?' project for Creative Partnerships. The project is inspired by and commissioned by the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. For more info visit www.ricohart.co.uk
Future projects include sculpture commissioned by Stafford gallery.
In Spring 2007 I will be starting the Arts award scheme with a group of local teenagers.