motif for printed napkins Making Moves Residency
trees+branches+routes+ roads+ migration
Paper napkins will be printed and distributed to cafes in Leamington Spa.
Paper napkins will be printed and distributed to cafes in Leamington Spa.
Modern languages curated by Katy West opens 14th July at the Barony Centre West Kilbride
'Modern Languages offers the perspective of five international artists
and designers with an interest in craft, its history and meaning. These
artists seek to re-interpret the sometimes familiar, sometimes forgotten
skills of Ireland’s craft tradition. In doing so they uncover fresh
significance and meaning, offering new insights into the Irish
vernacular.' Katy West
Aran 0.5 is one of four 'authentic' products I have created for the exhibition in 2011. Work developed from Aran 0.5 will become part of an Exhibition curated by Sebastian Bergne as part of St Etienne Design Bienalle in 2013. The theme of the Bienalle is Empathy
Empathy, or “experiencing the other”
In the face of ecological threats, and long awaited economic revival, philosophers, sociologists and intellectuals now consider that it is necessary to rethink our society, and to imagine a new social contract based on a heightened respect for mankind. One of the notions explored is the foundation of a new society based on empathy – the mechanism whereby an individual can understand and share the fellow feelings and emotions of others.
Empathy, or “experiencing the other”, is the principal theme of this new 2013 edition of the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial. A theme which invites a broad reflection involving all spheres of society but which is also directly linked to design as an activity of conception. Empathy has been at the heart of the discipline since its origins, intrinsic to the process of putting oneself in the place of the user to understand and anticipate his needs, or accompanying new forms of social rapport.
Throughout the 2013 Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial, we will be exploring the different issues that an empathetic society generates, and its capacity to reconstruct the world: what it proposes, but also what are the risks involved.'
Elsa Francès, Director and General Commissioner of the
Biennial.
In the face of ecological threats, and long awaited economic revival, philosophers, sociologists and intellectuals now consider that it is necessary to rethink our society, and to imagine a new social contract based on a heightened respect for mankind. One of the notions explored is the foundation of a new society based on empathy – the mechanism whereby an individual can understand and share the fellow feelings and emotions of others.
Empathy, or “experiencing the other”, is the principal theme of this new 2013 edition of the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial. A theme which invites a broad reflection involving all spheres of society but which is also directly linked to design as an activity of conception. Empathy has been at the heart of the discipline since its origins, intrinsic to the process of putting oneself in the place of the user to understand and anticipate his needs, or accompanying new forms of social rapport.
Throughout the 2013 Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial, we will be exploring the different issues that an empathetic society generates, and its capacity to reconstruct the world: what it proposes, but also what are the risks involved.'
Elsa Francès, Director and General Commissioner of the
Biennial.
Things have been very busy with a few projects on the go . I have just returned from The Isle of Mull and Tiree where I have begun my residency with An Tobar. I had a wonderful inspiring time meeting alot of interesting people. I am researching contemporary communities on Mull and Tiree and meeting all sorts of people from locals to incomers .
I am also completing work for my making moves residency with CraftSpace and heading off to Leamington Spa again soon to celebrate the completion of the project and 'mantel mas grande' ( the biggest tablecloth in Leaminton ). We intend to have an international party to celebrate the project.
Bird Yarns project with Capefarewell is coming along with birds being knitted in preparation for their nesting on Tobermory Pier in June
love and the motorway via The M1 appreciation course
'And, mingling with the heavy smell of fried food, there may also be just a whiff of romance.
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| portugese love hankie |
"That unhappiness, far from being off-putting, can actually be a peg on which your feelings of love can hang," he says.
Altar to speed
Love has often blossomed in venues on the edges of motorways. In the 1960s, for example, the Ace Cafe - with its prime spot at the centre of a knot of motorways - gave teenagers a place to meet, listen to music, and, crucially, flirt.'
Service stations: my secret love affair
Run down and overpriced, motorway services can be the low point on a long journey. But look closer and you will find all of modern Britain here – good and bad. Fifty years after the first one opened, comedian Alex Horne confesses to a lifelong infatuation with our "airports of the road"
more HERE
'good food' at service stations
Beaconsfield Services M40
Where: J2 and from A355
County:
Postcode: HP9 2SE
Type: Single site, used by traffic in both directions
Operator: Extra MSA
Contact Phone: 01494 678876
Eat-In Food: McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Pasty Presto
Takeaway Food / General: M&S Simply Food
Other Non-Food Shops: WH Smith
Motel: Etap Hotel
“Lenços dos Namorados” (Sweetheart Handkerchiefs) are handkerchiefs made of linen or cotton and embroidered with several romantic and love-related motifs: flowers, birds, hearts, verses from love poems. Sweetheart Handkerchiefs have their origin in the 17th century, when they were used among the Portuguese nobility as “marriage proposal handkerchiefs,” but later became popularized as a way to start dating someone. This piece of handcraft is part of typical clothing from the Minho province (in Northwestern Portugal) and used by young women of marrying age. These young women would embroider a handkerchief and give it to their sweetheart as a sign of their love just before he would leave on a sea journey, normally to Portugal’s former colonial provinces. The men would then wear the handkerchief in public to show everyone they were in a committed relationship"
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+ Oxford +
+ Warwick +
+ Beaconsfield
journeys
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service station napkins
m40 migrants
I didnt think I would ever be blogging about service stations but here goes ... apparently the Portugese community made their way up to Leamington as a result of the M40 and work in the service stations along the route.
Beginning in 1997, the motorway was widened to dual four lane between junctions 1A and 3 (High Wycombe East) under a Private Finance Initiative. It was completed by a Carillion-John Laing joint venture in October 1998, less than the original plan which would have included widening the section between Junctions 3 and 4. Oxford services and Warwick Services opened in 1998.
In 2009 the Highways Agency extended the Active Traffic Management (ATM) system that was previously introduced on the M42 motorwayonto the northbound carriageway of the M40 from junction 16 through to the junction with the M42. Beaconsfield services (near the site of the original proposed service station almost 40 years earlier) opened in 2009.
Cherwell Valley + Oxford + Warwick + Beaconsfield
I didnt think I would ever be blogging about service stations but here goes ... apparently the Portugese community made their way up to Leamington as a result of the M40 and work in the service stations along the route.
M40's first service station opened as Cherwell Valley services in 1994 on the site of temporary toilet areas which had been created when the motorway was constructed.
The M40 had been expected to be the last major motorway constructed in the UK, but during the final stages of construction the Conservative government announced a major new road building scheme (Roads for Prosperity); much of which was later cancelled after major road protests.
Beginning in 1997, the motorway was widened to dual four lane between junctions 1A and 3 (High Wycombe East) under a Private Finance Initiative. It was completed by a Carillion-John Laing joint venture in October 1998, less than the original plan which would have included widening the section between Junctions 3 and 4. Oxford services and Warwick Services opened in 1998.
Work to separate local and long distance traffic at junction 4 was completed in 2007. The work included a new dedicated left turn slip lane between the A404 Marlow Bypass and the Oxford-bound M40; additional lanes to the M40 slip roads entering the roundabout; an additional lane between the A404 Marlow Hill and the London-bound M40; and a five lane cross link to assist traffic movements between the M40 and the A404(S).
In 2009 the Highways Agency extended the Active Traffic Management (ATM) system that was previously introduced on the M42 motorwayonto the northbound carriageway of the M40 from junction 16 through to the junction with the M42. Beaconsfield services (near the site of the original proposed service station almost 40 years earlier) opened in 2009.Cherwell Valley + Oxford + Warwick + Beaconsfield
Leamington : a multicultural town
"The town is diffuse and divided, but not in ways that are deep or bitter; yet the parts tend to come together over time and they share a discernible pride in the place. In this club, for example, it says Cead Mile Failte in large letters over the stage, but I haven't heard an Irish accent, let alone any Gaelic. Although the people look Irish and have parents or grandparents mainly from Cork they tell stories about visits to Ireland as if it were an exotic other, just as the Punjabis who are 20% of the town talk about India and the Sicilians talk about Italy. If we took demography seriously those notices would not say that we were twinned with Bruhl and Sceaux, but with Cork, Cimino and Amritsar. The Punjabis and Corkonians came mainly for the Ford foundry which now lies derelict at the other end of town, the Ciminese to run restaurants and hairdressers. The Poles came as refugees and in such numbers after 1939 that the old town hall became the Polish Club. There are now many Portuguese whose original focus of employment was the services on the M40" via The social affairs unit 'Portugal has a longer history of migration to the UK. Portuguese migrant
workers have been a substantial group in the UK labour market: one wave of
migration occurred in the mid-1970s and continued when the country joined the
European community in 1986. According to Rutter (2006), a more recent migration
wave started after 2000. Despite the lack of reliable data and official figures, one
study has estimated the number of Portuguese migrants in the UK to be at around
300,000 people (British Educational Research Association, 2008). The
geographical distribution of Portuguese migrants has become more fluid in recent
years. ' via policy studies institute
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