Knitting of Epic Proportions

Here’s a film I shot while hosting a Knitting workshop. We created a giant knitted wall hanging in the gallery space, learned to crochet and all with recycled fabrics.. have a look, its fun!!

Under ONE Sky

I am soooo excited about this!! it looks awesome AND “it’s happening in Harrow?” AND I’m going to be there with fellow Usurp Artists doing my favourite of favourite things – Making giant dream catchers with the community. First of all heres the details:

Sunday 27 June 2010

12pm – 8pm

Kodak Sports Ground, Zoom Leisure, Harrow View, HA2 6QQ

“Under One Sky – Harrow’s largest festival of celebration and your chance to see the combined communities of Harrow at their best. With an overflowing programme of dance, world music, a wide variety of sports activity, youth music, spoken word, free children’s participatory activity, a huge parade, information and stalls, health promotion, a world food zone, outside radio broadcast and much more. We have something for everyone!”

If I wasnt working the festival you’d definatly see me getting my face painted, dancing to African Drumming and eating ice cream, as it stands ill be doing all of the above while running arts workshops in the Community & Healthy Living Zone, right next to the children’s Zone!! Come along and support the ever-growing sence of community and harrow, celebrate the diversity and enjoy a local day in the sun… pop in and see Usurp too!!

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Dream Brighter

Usurp spent it’s Sunday at the hugely sucessfull UnderOneSky Festival in Harrow last weekend. Despite the sweltering heat and England Finale at the World Cup, Families from all over the borough swarmed to the event. The Community Living tent was ripe with young artistic talent as we painted a comminty portrait like none seen before. My hand crafted Dream Catchers captured the imagination of adults and children alike, who all delighted in taking part to make harorws dreams that little bit brighter and sunnier this year.  It was messy and busy, just the way community art should be. My Dream Catcher took on a new life as the wind caught its hundreds of customised paper feathers and spread a little colour over everyones day.

The Dream Catcher signifies a strong cultural identity of native America, but has also connotations of its own in Europe. It has come to represent peace, nature and care. Using bright recycled fabrics to make the Dream Catcher gives an earthy feel without being subdued, and gives the piece a sence of history. I have been experimenting with size and dimensions and find them to be eye catching and intriguing. The extra long strings of torn fabric create a space of their own to be enjoyed by the public passing through, getting up close and personal to recycled fabrics.