STOP PRESS - LAWSON PARK OPENING DAY JUNE 25th 1-5pm
Thursday June 25th @ Lawson Park, the new Grizedale Arts HQ, Coniston LA21 8AD - all welcome!
Guest Eric Robson's speech at at 2pm / Light refreshments served
IMPORTANT TRAVEL INFO: No visitor car access to site allowed - please walk or use our free shuttle bus from Machell's Coppice National Trust carpark on the East of Lake road past Brantwood.
MORE INFO TEL. 015394 41050
Hear the archive recording of Jonathan Meese: Gralsbaby d’Annunzioz live from Vittoriale Degli
Italiani on June 5th - Go to www.dannunzioz.org for more
information on the project
A special edition of painted photographs by the artist is available
from Grizedale Arts - contact us for info
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
Interns Matt Do (London-based artist) and Sophie Perry (artist & anthroplogy graduate) have been working very hard helping get Lawson Park shipshape. Artist Glenn Boulter also joins GA as an Intern on the Guestroom Library project. Glenn is a visual artist and musician based in Cumbria and is a member of performance group Aurelie. (see pic below).
Laura Gray, our new Lawson Park Collection intern also joins us this year. Laura is assistant curator at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery (Preston) and is a student at Liverpool School of Art researching innovative curatorial practice. Like ours :-)
NEW-ISH NEWS
The exquisitely bracing wit of the fifth edition of Son of Grizedale here (PDF)
Grizedale Arts places:
Grizedale Arts past projects:
Creamfields TV
Virtually Grizedale
Seven Samurai
We Are Seven
Romantic Detachment
Coniston Water Festival
Festival Of Lying
Grizedale Arts partner projects:
Guestroom (Maria Benjamin and Ruth Hoflich)
Erik van Lieshout
Jonathan Meese
myvillages.org (Kathrin Böhm, Antje Schiffers, Wapke Feenstra) - Read the Myvillages.org Residency Blog
Harold Offeh
Shifting Ground Collective (Suzanne Lacy, Fernando Garcia Dory, Djeribi and Dominic Stevens, Fiona Woods and Deirdre O’Mahony)
See Residencies section for further information
A YouTube Channel
Watch some miscellaneous short films from the Grizedale Arts archive, more added all the time....
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Sunday 28 June '09 (from Lawson Park Blog)
The hostel dining room at Lawson Park
Apologies for an extended blog hiatus due to various webby issues plus the distractions of a final massive push on finishing the Lawson Park buildings - but as if by magic (not) the new Grizedale Arts HQ at Lawson Park was opened to the public on June 25th 09, with an opening speech from broadcaster and Cumbria Tourism Chair Eric Robson.
Saturday 27 June '09 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Eric Robson's opening speech
The broadcaster & Cumbria Tourism chair launches the new HQ at Lawson Park June 25th 2009
Director Adam Sutherland with guest Eric Robson
Intern Matt tries the delicious nosh
What a day - many hands made light work! Great food c/o Alistair's mother-in-law, great flowers c/o Meg and a very good speech from Mr Robson, bringing together Ruskin, Grizedale and land use very neatly indeed.
And saying the gardens were "superb" too (!)
Phew - now onto the 10th and the art crowd....
Topics: 'celebration' 'launch' 'lawson park'
Thursday 25 June '09 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Matt wrestles with light
Meg, high on housework
Web guy Dorian in the library
The scene at Lawson Park as we ready it for its local launch today, many thanks to volunteer Meg Falconer who really put in the hours, as did web guru Dorian Moore and interns Sophie Perry and Matt Do...
Friday 19 June '09 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Escapism on Hackney's No.25 bus
Here's poor Dorian our web programmer in deep Grizedale Arts code on his London commute - no sleep till Coniston.
Wednesday 17 June '09 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Len and some of his work
Len is the grandfather of artist Matt Do (of Matt & Ross fame), he recently visited Lawson Park along with a goodly sector of the Matt clan - Matt is currently working (very hard) with us in the lead up to the opening on the 25th. Len who is 86, still works as a gardener not too mention maintaining his other interests, including wood turning. He brought a group of his turned bowls and other items as a gift for the collection. He also took a chunk of wood away with him to make into Lawson Park pens for us - now thats what I call a grandfather.
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