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SUMMARY:"A Natural Homecoming" exhibition at The Ropewalk
DESCRIPTION:Over 50 years ago an 18 year old Barton lad\, with an almost empty portfolio and “a head full of nonsense”\, left the town to go to art college. After a very varied career\, but in those fifty years never losing his artistic drive\, that lad has returned to his home town with an exhibition of his original prints at The Ropewalk opening on January 14 and running until March 19. \nProduced over the last 10 years or so and consisting mainly of linocuts and screenprints (and often a combination of these two methods) Colin’s prints are all hand made by him in genuinely original limited editions. The subjects are those of the countryside and its wildlife – the birds and animals that Colin spent a lot of his life working with and for. Several also incorporate words and extracts from the poetry he also writes about the same subjects. \nSome of his work from that period is in several private and public collections (including Manchester City Art Gallery and the Royal College of Art). He then worked as a master printer\, editioning original screen prints for some big name artists whilst teaching printmaking and graphic design and later as a graphic designer and commercial screen printer\, eventually becoming head of printmaking at Colchester School of Art. \nThough luck and a willingness to take on new challenges\, this aspect of Colin’s life eventually brought about a major career shift; as he then went on to work for over 25 years in education and training in game and wildlife management finally becoming Head of Land and Animal Management for the University of Cumbria. \nBut throughout that time he continued to illustrate and design publications and experiment with the rapidly changing technologies in graphic digital media; and it had always been his plan to one day go back to being a full time artist. So about 12 years ago\, along with his wife Heather (who was already a successful landscape painter)\, he took the opportunity of an offer of voluntary severance from the university to set up a full-time artist studio and print workshop at Craigshaw Barns in SW Scotland – and he has never looked back. \nColin is first and foremost a printmaker. He remembers enjoying enormously making linocuts and other prints with his teacher Wally Cook at the Grammar School\, but it was during his second year at art school\, when he discovered the amazing potential of then new and exciting techniques of things like photo-stencil screen printing\, that he began to develop an approach to image making that he has to this day. \nAlthough Colin’s focus is most often ‘traditional’ wildlife themes\, informed by his own direct experience and practical knowledge\, he hopes to bring a slightly different approach to the subjects – if possible going beyond the purely decorative. And\, like most other printmakers\, Colin is always keen to stress that his prints are never reproductions of other media\, but always truly originals – with qualities and in editions controlled by the very nature of their making. \nAn exciting development lately has seen Colin have published two Alphabet Books\,  one of British Wildlife and the other of British Birds\, each page of the books containing a small linocut image with its accompanying four-line verse for every letter of the alphabet. The idea being to identify\, if you can\, the species in the printed image; perhaps using the verse as a clue! \nAll 52 original mini prints produced for the books will be framed and on display as part of the exhibition\, along with all of their original lino printing blocks. And during two separate planned weeks of ‘residency’ at The Ropewalk\, when Colin will be working with some of his printmaking equipment actually in the gallery\, visitors of all ages will be encouraged to chose their favourite image from the books and with Colin’s help print their own free copy from the block to take home with them! \n
URL:https://www.barton-upon-humber.org.uk/event/a-natural-homecoming-exhibition-at-the-ropewalk/
LOCATION:Maltkiln Road\, Barton upon Humber\, North Lincolnshire\, DN18 5JT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Estuary - a photographic journey exhibiton at The Ropewalk
DESCRIPTION:Estuary is a photographic essay of the Humber and the challenges it faces. The beauty of the big skies\, the ever-changing light and the fluidity of water is a constant. However climate change\, brought about in part by some of the key industries on this huge estuary\, is threatening the environment and the human and wild life that are a part of it. The race is on to make changes and this photographic essay seeks  to show the beauty and challenges the Humber faces.\nBrough based Nigel Walker has featured in a number of group and solo exhibitions including\, more recently Lost; The Red Dress; Say Something; and Floral. He often works in collaboration with other photographers both locally (HUman Impact) and internationally \n
URL:https://www.barton-upon-humber.org.uk/event/estuary-a-photographic-journey-exhibiton-at-the-ropewalk/
LOCATION:Maltkiln Road\, Barton upon Humber\, North Lincolnshire\, DN18 5JT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Andreas Tophøj and Rune Barslund at Ropery Hall
DESCRIPTION:Andreas Tophøj and Rune Barslund are musical storytellers. Like the bearers of sagas in their own Scandinavian culture and the bards and seanachies of the Gaelic tradition\, this fiddle and accordion duo from Denmark record events in their melodies. The story behind their own journeys to becoming one of Denmark’s leading trad music units\, with honours including Track of the Year at the Danish Folk Awards 2012 for their The Danish Immigrant EP and Andreas’s nomination for Artist of the Year title at the same awards in 2015\,reveals quite different engagements with the music. While Rune grew up with Danish traditional music from early childhood and took up the accordion at the age of six\, Andreas didn’t become aware of folk music until his mid-teens. Andreas had begun playing classical violin at the age of nine and had just made the decision to take up guitar instead when he went along to a class Danish fiddler Harald Haugard was teaching. “I think the main reason I was attracted to the music was the social aspect\,” says Andreas. It was when Andreas was living in Odense that he and Rune first met. Soon afterwards\, Rune left to study Irish music for a year in Limerick\, where he came under the tutelage of Derek Hickey\, from De Dannan\, and took whistle lessons from Thomas Johnston\, says Andreas. “But he only attended the first semester\, after which he stayed on because he loved the music and spent the rest of the time in a freezing cold house and playing sessions in local pubs\, he added”. \nAt the same time Andreas was across the Atlantic\, playing old-time American music and bluegrass in Boston. Then a further period of first-hand study took Rune to Finland\, adding another influence to the music he and Andreas make as a duo. “Our travels have definitely had an impact on the way we play\,” says Rune. “It can be a challenge playing in a duo because you’re really quite exposed\, compared to say in a trio or quartet\, but it’s also easier to improvise\, be spontaneous. It certainly keeps us on our toes.” These days they tend to playdown the exact origins of the duo as too prosaic for their credentials as storytellers\, preferring the equally true angle of becoming friends through playing together in informal sessions. The music they play–mostly self-penned compositions\, and some traditional tunes too–may come from a variety of sources but there’s a unifying quality in everything they work into their repertoire. “It has to be a good tune\,” says Rune. “If you have a strong melody it’s easier to create a good arrangement but if the melody isn’t so strong\, the arrangement can become contrived as you try to compensate. \nSo\, the melody is all-important.” And the story? “The story is important\, too\,” says Andreas\, adding that ultimately he and Rune are entertainers and communicators–musically and verbally. “Sometimes it can be more entertaining to tell a lie\,” he says. “And just as the music will change subtly and spontaneously\, from performance to performance\, so will the story. I think the audience know when to trust us 100% and when to suspect we’re not being entirely truthful. And if not\, it gives them something to talk about in the car on the way home”. \nThis performance is part of our 241 Member’s Offer. Please ask for details. \n
URL:https://www.barton-upon-humber.org.uk/event/andreas-tophoj-and-rune-barslund-at-ropery-hall/
LOCATION:The Ropewalk\, Maltkiln Road\, Barton upon Humber\, North Lincolnshire\, DN18 5JT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Music
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