(Slightly late now) Festive Greetings from Jenny and Pete
Happy New Year!
Firstly we’d like to say a big Thank You to all of those who have supported us this year, from being part of the Kickstarter campaign in late 2014 which allowed us to actually build the new camera in 2015, to those of you who visited us at events, took an interest, who spread the word, hired us for an event, applied to our artist callout or attended a workshop (and the rest). And also to Arts Council England for funding our next phase!
We hope you all had a good festive break. Here’s to 2016 being just as exciting.
2015 in summary:
January – March
We started the year with moving into BOM after successfully raising enough money through our Kicktstarter campaign to build a new camera. Tim at Pinhole Solutions then kindly donated the lens housing to us and we started talking to Matt Moore about building the wooden structure of the camera. In March we held a workshop for Flatpack and had a window installation of mini camera obscuras at Home Deli.
April-June
In late April we received the finished wooden sections from Carpenter Matt. In May we posted a callout to artists to get involved with the camera obscura and were delighted with the response. In June we took the camera out to Digbeth First Friday and setup by the canal. This was a test run as it wasn’t quite finished, but great to get out in public again.
July-Sept
Outings outings outings.
July 4th: CoCoMad
July 3-12th: Moseley Festival. Installation of two miniature camera obscuras in the garden at Maison Mayci for the duration of the festival.
July 18th: Jewellery Quarter Festival.
Aug 18th & 19th: Kirkby workshops
Aug 29th: Moseley Bog with Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust
September 1st: Stirchley Community Market
Oct-Dec
October 10th: Winterbourne House and Gardens
October 17th: Highbury Harvest
In October we made our first official school visit, to Lyndon in Solihull, and it was ace. Speaking of ace, we also received confirmation of Arts Council funding in October, supporting a 6 month R&D process over the winter months with our 5 chosen artists.
So what does 2016 hold?
- Workshops and other collaborations with Winterbourne House and Gardens
- The artistic outcomes of the artist R&D with our famous five.
- Workshops and an exhibition of the artists’ process at Bom
- Workshop and involvement with Warwick Arts Centre
- Capture Birmingham
See you next year!
Jenny and Pete