‘Shedding Skins’ begins on 17th October and is open until 18th November 2011.

The private view is on 21st October when the show will be formally opened by Eileen Adams. Eileen is the driving force behind The Big Draw and The Campaign for Drawing.

View the work and read more here:

Shedding Skins – my work

Drawing with Light – working with adults and young people

I hope you will be able to join us in Aberystwyth for the show, but if you can’t I hope you enjoy seeing some of the work here.

The Energy Gift Exchange is about presence, drawing and presents. You give me the gift of your presence, I will draw your movement and make a gift of the drawing to you. I have invited guests to come and participate, but there will be plenty of opportunities for you to participate should you wish to.

This Exchange is part of the Big Draw 2011 in collaboration with Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

The Energy Gift Exchange is an important event that runs throughout the show and I will keep you updated about how it goes. The current event timetable looks like this:

October:

17 Mon

Jane Chapman (yoga)

Lynne Denman (singing/storytelling)

Annie Suganami (flute)

19 Wed

21 Fri

2-4pm Annie Suganami (flute)

8pm-9pm (Private View)

Ben March and Will Mahon playing Bodhran and Flute

26 Wed

Dafydd Roberts (actor)

28 Fri

Dr Ditty Doktor (story in Dutch, then English)
Simon Harmer (Southern step dancing)

31 Mon

November

1 Tues

Esyllt Harker (singer/storyteller)

9 Wed

Julie Murphy and Ceri Owen Jones

Michael Harvey (storyteller)

11 Fri

Cath Little (storyteller)
Busnoys (jazz)

16 Wed

Jill Piercy (Qigong)

17 Thurs

John Harvey (Sonic improvisation)

18 Fri

 Amanda Rackstraw(writer/actor)

Annie Suganami (flute)

grimm_tales_a4_poster-final

A short production that explores the religious symbolism in the brothers Grimm’s versions of Cinderella, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood.

The stories (brilliantly adapted by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy) are read by Jeany Spark, who’s currently featuring as Kenneth Brannagh’s daughter in the BAFTA Award-winning TV series ‘Wallander’.

The production includes songs specially written by Nick Bicat and Philip Ridley, and recorded by (amongst others) Peter Knight of Steeleye Span and Maartin Allcock, formerly of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull.

Grimm Tales takes place at 2pm on Saturday 27 March in Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford, as part of the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.
Tickets are £10 and available in advance from the box office on 0870-343
1001 or www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com

Four of the seven for Martin Pynes album, 7 Pictures

The highlights of my education work in 2008/9 include:

• Making four Fairytale books with Foundation Phase children in the Swansea area. The books tell the stories entirely in images and are designed to encourage oracy. The work was exhibited at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea in October 2008. Another project is planned for June/July 2009.

• A residency on Tory Island (Donegal) in July 2008, in connection with my Selkie project. I worked with a group of young people (aged 6 – 28) from the island and we made an exhibition for the festival. The group threw themselves into the project and we made drawings on the rocks at the harbour and at Green Port (where the seals are). We then developed the work into Photoshop montages. The final exhibition had digital prints of the work made outside, prints of the montages and a DVD playing with the soundtrack made up of some of the children singing in Gaelic. Also, a senior member of the community told a native Tory Selkie story, again in Gaelic.

At the 6.00 pm Sunday services during Lent, Canon Edmund Newell will be joined by comedy writer and performer Andy Hamilton, actors Lynda Baron, Amanda Symonds and Anthony Newell to explore the spiritual dimension of four of the brothers Grimm’s classic fairy stories. During the series we shall be exploring Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood.

Illustration from Little Red Riding Hood, 2006 by Maria Hayes.

For more information please contact:
Mark McVay
Press Officer
020 7246 8321
mark@stpaulscathedral.org.uk

This new publication is a communication manual for Partnership Practitioners.

I was commissioned to draw at the International Conference in Cambridge 2006 and the drawings have been used to fully illustrate this document. I was also invited to write a “think piece”.

This publication is available at www.ThePartneringInitiative.org

ISBN: 1899159 14 2