Trinity Winchester The Big Sleep Out 2019

The Trinity Art Group with help and support of Daniel Cid (Professor of Design, Winchester School of Art) and Eria Nsubuga (PhD student, Winchester School of Art) made a shelter out of recycled cardboard and elements from the Tate Exchange event "Itinerant Objects". 

Vanessa showing hand-painted t-shirt for the Big Sleep Out

Waving Hello!

Side view

Side view 02

The Big Sleep Out 2019 at Winchester Cathedral

Back view of the shelter with inflatable flamingo 

Shelter replete with bunting made by the art group and sewed together by the brilliant artist and teacher Sue Hofman

Vanessa, Sandra and Mike

Professor Daniel Cid and Eria Nsubuga

Itinerant Objects event at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern

After many months of preparation in collaboration with Winchester School of Art, we finally make it to Tate Exchange, Tate Modern! 

TAG has been working on a series of wearable cardboard costumes that combine, screenprint typography, Dadaist humour and references to homeless makeshift shelters. 

This project was helped and supported by the Hampshire Primary Schools Teaching Conference organised by the brilliant Jayne Stillman (Art and Design County Advisor) - teachers contributed handmade costumes that they donned and paraded around Southampton City Art Gallery. 

With the help of WSA PhD students and Ladies of the Press*, the group donned their outfits and moved through Tate Modern as part intervention and part "flight of fancy" with the aim to make the invisible visible. 

The experience was uplifting and poignant, with many of TAG saying that for once they felt that they were noticed instead of always feeling like they don't matter and they don't exist. 

The movement through Tate Modern also acted as a signpost for the 10 min Tate Modern presentation which was delivered by Alastair Eales (Trinity Winchester art educator) and Pippa Newman (TAG member and artist). 

The talk focused on seeing a fresh perspective: bring together Pippa's journey (from vulnerably-housed to employment) with the seminal artwork "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp. The talk concluded that beauty is not just something experienced through the eyes, but also includes the heart. When a new truth is revealed, the once mundane object takes on a new immediacy - so too is true of people experiencing homelessness or mental health issues or social isolation, they feel invisible and unappreciated, but when their story is revealed their humanity shines through and they become visible - which is a beautiful thing. 

Marcel Duchamp "Fountain" 1964 replica

Trinity Winchester Summer Art Show 2018: "Modist Modernism"

Southampton City Art Gallery study visit

Southampton City Art Gallery

The catalyst for our visual art study visit to Southampton City Art Gallery was to see an oil painting held within it's excellent permanent collection -  a beautiful artwork by the artist John Singer Sargent, titled "Major E C Harrison as a Boy".  Painted in 1887.

The full length portrait shows the young E C Harrison standing proudly in a sailor suit, wistfully looking out into middle distance. The alizarin crimson and burnt umber ground interlaced with the deep shadows help contrast and push the pale glow of Harrison's determined countenance reinforcing his boyhood aspiration to one day serve his country as a soldier.

Harrison rose to the rank of Major during the First World War. Tragically losing his life in 1915.

John Singer Sargent, the celebrated portrait artist, who undertook the commission to paint the boy E C Harrison in 1887, later became an official war artist for the 1914 - 1918 conflict.

 

I love art!

The great 17th century art Caravaggio helped inspired the Trinity Art Group to create their own Medusas

Colourful trees, ugly clay gargoyles and mythical Medusa

I have posted up a small selection of artwork created by The Trinity Art Group. The gallery post explores themes such as the "Nature of trees", Gargoyles and Grotesques (the claywork featured are grotesques... gargoyles spout water, while grostesques do not) and "Interpretations of Medusa".

The Nature of trees

Conté Pastel on sugar paper

Watercolour, graphite on paper

water soluble pastel on paper

Watercolour on paper

Gouache on card
 

 Gargoyles and Grotesques

Stoneware clay

 

Stoneware clay

Stoneware clay

 

Stoneware clay

 

Stoneware clay

 

Interpretations of the mythical Medusa

 

Gouache on paper

Poster paint on paper

Acrylic on watercolour paper

Acrylic on watercolour paper

Wendy painting her Medusa (looking for all the world like the Medusa has been on a traumatic roller coaster ride).