Tangled Wood

A big Welldone from the Quay Arts team to both the students and gallery educators who worked together to create Tangled wood, an installation by medina High students, Tim Johnson and Chris Jenkins.

The magical wood was created using willow. The students created drawing and Ideas inspired by their visit to East Weaves West, our current exhibition in the Rope Store.

The Students are returning for a second workshop with artist Chris Jenkins, and will be exploring experiamental drawing.

If you have already visited tangled wood come back and see the results of the second workshop, exhibition runs till Saturday 29 September!!!

Free Quay at White Air

We took part in White Air as part of a programme of activities which took us to other places and events over the summer. We did this project as "Free Quay" in partnership with SCAN City Eye and John Cattle, all of whom did some excellent filming of tricks and extreme sports action. These were then edited into short clips, previewed on our plasma screen in the marquee and downloaded by request into people's phones via bluetooth.

Meanwhile Andy Jones of Emusport helped people create music tracks and play DJ on laptops in the marquee. All this frenzied multimedia action, as well as the wonderful chill out area, created by Lyndsay Meyer and Jo Hummel-Newell was made possible by the financial and in-kind support of White Air and Collonade Holdings , thanks guys, you really helped to make this happen.









And about those video clips... here's a taster, more to come soon

SUMMER OUTINGS AND SCHOOLS

SUMMER OUTINGS AND SCHOOLS

It already seems so far away, but we had a great summer, with outings to Art on the lawns at Northwood House in Cowes (a great event) as well as marquees at both White Air and the Bestival. These last two deserve separate posts, so that's what I'll do.

Also worth a mention is the Summer School activity, which has been happening throughout the summer. As well as our regular Arts and Crafts Summer School, this year saw the first Digital Arts, Music and Film Summer School programme which took place between July and the end of August. Please let us know what else you would like to see, as this was a first for us and something which we would like to develop more over the next year.

Also worth a post of it's own, but also a mention here, is the Wight Words season, celebrating writers and writing of all kinds. This is still on until 15th October, with a range of events and courses, see the Wight Words website for more details.

That's all for now, don't forget to post comments about any of the above, or any other aspect of Quay Arts