MANDURAH STRETCH FESTIVAL at FALCON
The Falcon community worked with artist Graham Hay to create
- roll up thousands of sheets of newspapers to create a large, hanging open air paper kiln
- over 800 small paper clay sculptures
- fire the work at Falcon Bay Beach on Sunday 26 April (see photos on Facebook)
- install a "cloud" sculpture/installation made from the 600+ sculptures in the ceiling of the Falcon Library, corner of Flavia St and Cobblers Road, Falcon, Mandurah, April 27 - May 11 2009.
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Early Planning in 2008
After the highly success 2008 Brain Sell 5000 book project, I was invited to plan a community built paper clay sculpture for the 2009 Mandurah Stretch Festival.
I meet with Leigh Angilley: Falcon Library Team Leader, Alasdair Wardle: Manager of Libraries, Learning Arts and Culture and Carolyn Marks: Stretch Festival Coordinator on 27 November 2008 to plan the project.
I proposed involving the fire station (next to the library), and so we planed a paper kiln on the nearby Falcon Bay Beach, to fire parts for the final paper clay "cloud sculpture" to be installed in the library.
This was inspired by a woven paper kiln had seen at the Paper clay Plus Conference, at the Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews in Scotland (November 2000), and a suspended paper kiln at the 2001 International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales.
A series of community workshops at the Mandurah Pottery Place, local schools and the library created the paper kiln, paperclay parts, leading up to the firing of the work and final installation at the Falcon eLibrary and Community Centre, at the corner Cobblers road and Flavia Street.
Individuals and interested groups were invited to take away some free paperclay and make lots and lots of small paperclay sculptures, with holes in them so they can be hung up.
Some of the first to do so were Glencoe Primary School, Peel Challenger TAFE: Access and Participation, Community First artists, the Impressit Printmakers, with artists, Mandjar Artisans artists and members of the general community also participating (see Thank You list below).
Completed work was displayed at the Falcon Library, before it was fired in the paper kiln.
The construction process for the Paper Kiln was developed during workshops at the Pottery Place in Mandurah.
Link to Falcon e-Library Wedsite
A big thank you to the Stretch Volunteers who have helped:
Carol Nicolson who helped on every day, asissted in the design of the paper kiln and cloud sculpture and provided an informal taxi service,
Also from the Pottery Place:
Alison Matthews,
Mr Leslie Hodgson,
Jeanette Mellor,
Joyce Hunwick,
Jean Hynd,
Kathy Finlay who all helped in may ways.
Thank you also to Community First,
Wider Opportunities (a TAFE group coordinated by Candice Burns),
Impressit Printmakers,
Mandjar Artisans (coordinated by Gary Aitkin),
'Brush with Art' art classes coordinated by Carmel Sayer and Jo Tomlinson),
Glencoe Primary School (coordinated by Carol Cole),
Individual artists have also contributed, including Sylvia Stonehouse, Angela Downing, Christie Lewis, Carolyn Thomas and Sheila ?.
Also community members (kids, parents and adults) at the workshops held by Carmel Sayer and Vynka Jinman over the school holidays at the Falcon E Library,
and a playgroup run by Lara Smith have also made pieces.
Plus a HUGE thank you to the very accommodationing staff at the Falcon library, especially Janine Stacey, Falcon Library Team Leader.
If there is any person, or you know of someone, whom I have not acknowledged (or miss spelt any name), please accept my apologies and do email me so I can correct it.
Without your valuable support This would not have happened so quickly, and I would still be rolling newspapers and paperclay for weeks to come!
Thank you.
Graham Hay
After the highly success 2008 Brain Sell 5000 book project, I was invited to plan a community built paper clay sculpture for the 2009 Mandurah Stretch Festival.
I meet with Leigh Angilley: Falcon Library Team Leader, Alasdair Wardle: Manager of Libraries, Learning Arts and Culture and Carolyn Marks: Stretch Festival Coordinator on 27 November 2008 to plan the project.
I proposed involving the fire station (next to the library), and so we planed a paper kiln on the nearby Falcon Bay Beach, to fire parts for the final paper clay "cloud sculpture" to be installed in the library.
This was inspired by a woven paper kiln had seen at the Paper clay Plus Conference, at the Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews in Scotland (November 2000), and a suspended paper kiln at the 2001 International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales.
A series of community workshops at the Mandurah Pottery Place, local schools and the library created the paper kiln, paperclay parts, leading up to the firing of the work and final installation at the Falcon eLibrary and Community Centre, at the corner Cobblers road and Flavia Street.
Individuals and interested groups were invited to take away some free paperclay and make lots and lots of small paperclay sculptures, with holes in them so they can be hung up.
Some of the first to do so were Glencoe Primary School, Peel Challenger TAFE: Access and Participation, Community First artists, the Impressit Printmakers, with artists, Mandjar Artisans artists and members of the general community also participating (see Thank You list below).
Completed work was displayed at the Falcon Library, before it was fired in the paper kiln.
The construction process for the Paper Kiln was developed during workshops at the Pottery Place in Mandurah.
Link to Falcon e-Library Wedsite
A big thank you to the Stretch Volunteers who have helped:
Carol Nicolson who helped on every day, asissted in the design of the paper kiln and cloud sculpture and provided an informal taxi service,
Also from the Pottery Place:
Alison Matthews,
Mr Leslie Hodgson,
Jeanette Mellor,
Joyce Hunwick,
Jean Hynd,
Kathy Finlay who all helped in may ways.
Thank you also to Community First,
Wider Opportunities (a TAFE group coordinated by Candice Burns),
Impressit Printmakers,
Mandjar Artisans (coordinated by Gary Aitkin),
'Brush with Art' art classes coordinated by Carmel Sayer and Jo Tomlinson),
Glencoe Primary School (coordinated by Carol Cole),
Individual artists have also contributed, including Sylvia Stonehouse, Angela Downing, Christie Lewis, Carolyn Thomas and Sheila ?.
Also community members (kids, parents and adults) at the workshops held by Carmel Sayer and Vynka Jinman over the school holidays at the Falcon E Library,
and a playgroup run by Lara Smith have also made pieces.
Plus a HUGE thank you to the very accommodationing staff at the Falcon library, especially Janine Stacey, Falcon Library Team Leader.
If there is any person, or you know of someone, whom I have not acknowledged (or miss spelt any name), please accept my apologies and do email me so I can correct it.
Without your valuable support This would not have happened so quickly, and I would still be rolling newspapers and paperclay for weeks to come!
Thank you.
Graham Hay
