R-ART @ The East Rooms with House Of Fairy Tales Creative Breakfasts

This is a series of creative experiences curated by The House Of Fairy Tales that will run on Sundays throughout the spring: 

RART DUO: ITA MAUDE WOOLLER AND ELLIOTT YOUNG

Through this series RART explore the creative process of artistic discovery and invite the viewers to contribute to it and play a vital role in the alchemic processes. This will manifest itself by drawing, conversing and interactive mind mapping. Working as a physical and literal demonstration of this process of communication -the development between that of an artist and their practice.

http://www.houseoffairytales.org

GREEN FOR A DAY, Whiston Rd Estate.

As part of the European Mobility Week, London Borough of Hackney in association with residents of Whiston Estate and This Is A Canvas Architecture is organizing a week end event on Whiston Estate car park the 19th and 20th of September.

During this weekend there will be a range of activities for families, children and inhabitants of all ages focus on the question of mobility in city. And also concerts, projections, food of the world, information’s stand, exhibitions…

 

R-ART
Provide a three dimensional blank canvas for local residence to project their concepts onto.

First the residences are inspired by props from RART’s found object installation.

Secondly they draw and design in 2d.

Thirdly the residence turn their 2d designs into 3d drawings and recreate them within the space.

Finally they physically inhabit their designs.

A lovely little review at Amelia’s Magazine…

The lovely ladies from Amelia’s magazine managed to grab us for ten minutes whilst we were at Glastonbury this year, there is a little extract below… but check out the whole article it is very much lush:

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/rart-piece/2009/07/06/

…Set up by Leanne and her friend Ita and developed with eco-entertainment company BASH Creations, they naturally play the big sister role to the kids, with a sole mandate to lighten the ecological footprint of the British entertainment industry and to teach them the heart behind the making of things with your own two hands. Given my own scribbling skills, I too belong at the children’s table, a bit like Jack out of that Robin Williams film (except not really, I do get ID’d a lot, so I don’t look that old. But I digress.)

One of their projects involved working with Nova Dando, constructing a couture gown out of old copies of the Financial Times, which again, in its trashionista spirit hammered home the process of recycling making and getting everyone involved - children doing couture! Great stuff…

Finsbury’s Art Festival

Everyone was invited to come along and get creative at Whitecross Street to mark the start of the Finsbury Arts Festival on Friday 26 February, the collaborative art-making experience set up by local artist duo, RART, with the help of the local community.

Between 11.00am and 3.00pm, traders, shoppers and visitors one and all were invited to make their mark on a huge 8ft by 8ft canvas.  RART sketched an outline of the street and the market as they viewed it and anyone who wished was welcome to add their own creative touch to this representation of one of London’s oldest street markets.

The aim was to build a collaborative image of the street, using not only traditional paint but also typical materials from the market, from flyers, flowers and scraps of fabric, to cabbage leaves and coffee cups. 

Say the RART duo, Ita Maude Wooller and Leanne Elliott: “Street residents and regulars were encouraged to pause, engage with their surroundings and respond visually to their role in this vibrant community.  RART and the Finsbury Arts Festival want you to come along, celebrate your market and be responsible for making the everyday into art.”

R-art @ Glastonbury