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June 2007
InPrint's Busy Time
From May 3 to June 24 InPrint has been busy indeed: four exhibitions (two taster exhibitions for Norfolk Open Studios, Bally Factory Open Studios and the Welborne Festival), five poetry readings (two videos are being made of these and our artists' work) and we've run at least eight workshops/demonstrations (poetry and print, paper making, printing and box making).
Our Poetry Vending Machine has appeared at four different venues - from St. Giles Church font to the Bishop's Garden.
While artists have been creating paintings and prints of scale, an installation has also been built. Poets have been collaborating with artist and fellow poets. Our stalls have been laden with a colourful array of new collaborative cards, and Tim Lenton produced a booklet of poetry, 'Off The Map,' charting his collaborations during this hectic time.
While we're having a little rest - gathering ourselves for collaborations and opportunities to come - lots of images and other items will apear here over the coming days and weeks.
An afternoon with the Bishop
Well, not exactly with the Bishop of Norwich, but in his garden. Rupert, Lisa and Tonia transported the Poetry Vending Machine to the Bishop's Garden on the afternoon of Sunday, 24 June and set up an InPrint stall offering stunning cards and of course the famous vending machine boxes. They were joined later by Tim. Also present: Lisa's family, Tonia's daughter and Tim's wife - so a real family occasion. It was all part of an Afternoon of World Literature organised by the New Writing Partnership, based in Norwich. Other stalls were set up on the lawns, and there were readings in the main tent. A rather grey-weather day transformed by the usual InPrint excitement.
Collaborative poem
Collaboration is it. Here follows a collaborative poem, untitled, a stanza each by Lisa D'Onofrio, Tim Lenton, Caroline Gilfillan and Rupert Mallin. We followed each other but will not say who wrote what. Indeed, we're not entirely sure of our own authorship at all!
OUR COLLABORATIVE POEM
Rouge gills burn, gouge word of mouth:
Moon’s long veins pull the sinews
of the waves - open wounds
Wherein fish flash blades
The leaving left
a half-hearted wave,
its wake knowing
the heart works in sand and cliché
Sharp shoreline shells
a broken battlefield
fragile, soft-centred
lovers absent without leave
Creatures whose bones become sand,
become castles and moats
moulded by small hands
building fortresses again, again
in blaze of August sun
THE WELBORNE FESTIVAL, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 June
THE ANNUAL WELBORNE FESTIVAL is rightly considered the best village arts festival in the region. In this small and beautiful location, between Norwich and Dereham, there will be a packed festival of the arts across all mediums.
InPrint has a central Marquee in which our artists - Annette Rolston, Bronwen Edwards, Michael Fenton and Tonia Jillings - will be displaying a huge range of work, from paintings and large prints, to sculptural works. These are innovative works indeed, for they often weave the poetry from the group into their works, or vice versa.
Many of the artists new works will be featured here but the 'originals' feature in this exhibition first!
Alongside this diverse and exciting exhibition, the groundbreaking Poetry Vending Machine (PVM) will be vending small packages of poetry and art - for half the price of a packet of cigarettes! Where else can one buy an original work of art for the price of a glass of wine? Also on sale will be InPrint's new collaborative range of cards.
Each morning of the festival there will be arts/writing demonstrations and on both afternoons there will be lively readings by poets Lisa D'Onofrio, Caroline Gilfillan, Tim Lenton and Rupert Mallin.
We hope to see you there!
Factory Open Studios closes
From the closing little workshop, Tonia's daughter Erin sends flowers.