Graffiti signs with Laycock Gate Boyzie group.
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T-shirt workshop in Pilling April 2015
Visit to Sydenham Garden
A big thank you to everyone at Sydenham Garden.
We were made to feel so welcome and thank you for sharing your amazing experiences.
We came away feeling very inspired with loads to think about for future projects and community engagements in Blackpool
Fantastic views and all round
Thank you so much for showing us around and talking to us about all the groups that have access to these therapeutic spaces.
We had a such a lovely time and thank you for the communal lunch.
Graffiti signs in Pilling and Great Eccleston February 2015 with Club2Go
A small selection of work from the first workshop in Pilling.
A small selection from the first session at Great Eccleston
Thank you once again to POSCA pens for sponsoring us this year. We really appreciate your support.
Highfield Road Park graffiti workshop January 2015
Starting the New Year as we mean to go on. A fantastic graffiti workshop with Mr Dee and Boz Phillips thanks to Karen Pennington and her team at Friends of Highfield Road Park for all their hard work and for asking us to be involved with their centenary celebration of the park.
https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfHighfieldRoadParkBlackpool
Start of the workshop before starting to paint
Mr Dee talking to some of the participants
Karen straight in with the paint
We had a great day and met some lovely people.
Hope to work with you all again soon.
Hand Grown Un’s Art Installation Central Drive Blackpool
Just in time for the Christmas holidays we installed the ‘Fantasy Plant Shop’.
https://www.facebook.com/fantasyplantshop/?fref=ts
On Monday 23rd of December Last Legs Community Arts Organisation set up a ‘pop up’ art installation in a Central Drive Shop at Bethesda Square (previously Mickeys Carpets) in Blackpool the same shop where ‘Dr Evoes Pet Shop’ was previously housed as part of the Culture Shops initiative in 2013 and has been created by the same artists Boz Phillips and Lee Fitzgerald.
All the art on display has been the work of the local community including pupils at Revoe Learning Academy. Boz Phillips and Lee Fitzgerald set up workshops with the participants to support intergenerational community arts activities for the project.
‘Last Legs’ – Boz Phillips and Lee Fitzgerald approached LeftCoast earlier this year for funding to support the local community with publicising their community garden situated at the back of Lady Smith House, Ibbison Court.
The community have worked hard with GroundWork and the Council to set up the garden and are still seeking volunteers to get involved.
The installation will remain in the shop for one month from 23rd December – January
‘We have worked with the community of Central Drive and Revoe to create a ‘Fantasy Plant Shop’ art installation – Hand Grown Un’s.
After creating ‘Dr Evoes Pet Shop’ last year we received such positive feedback and requests to produce another art installation we decided to seek funding from LeftCoast to carry out this project. The children who designed the fantasy pets/ animals for the ‘fantasy pet shop’ last year really wanted to get involved making the work but we did not have enough funding or time to act on their request. This time thanks to funding from LeftCoast as part of the ‘Growing People – programme,designed to get local communities thinking differently about their green spaces’, we were able to involve school pupils, young people attending the Monday Club at Ibbison Community Center and more of the older community in making the art works. All the art works created for the shop were made using recycled materials.
We worked directly with at least 500 participants on the project with the aim of supporting the community gardeners and give their hard work a higher profile.
By installing more art in empty shop windows on Central Drive people can see there is a really strong sense of community in the area. People there are working very hard to improve the area and need positive creative ideas from everyone to reinforce this.
The community profile recently carried out in the area showed that local people really do want more opportunities for art and creativity there. We are currently in the early stages of setting up art workshops for older people in the area next year.
Working in the area is always a pleasure because the community are so enthusiastic and positive: we will continue to support them by creating opportunities for further arts activities’.
Thanks to
LeftCoast for funding the project
Blackpool Borough Council for the loan of the shop premises
The Revoe-Lution and The New Revoe Residents Association team based at Lady Smith House for their ongoing support and hard work
Revoe Learning Academy for their art works
Bugs to Butterflies for their art works
Susan Howarth and The New Life Church for their art works
The community of Revoe and Central Drive who participated
Shirley McCarten and the Tuesday luncheon club for their support and input
The community gardeners at Lady Smith House, Ibbison Court
Blackpool Family Hostel, Central Drive
GroundWork
Last Legs’ friends and artist colleagues for their help, support.
Printmaking workshop at Shabby2Chic December 2014
Foam printing blocks made by a participant
This was our final week with the young people working at Shabby2Chic.
More fantastic work by the participants
and finishing off the handmade books
Two designs inspired by henna hand designs plus book cover
Design on fabric in handmade book
And here using printing blocks and Posca pens
And because it is nearly Christmas some printed and drawn cards
Dont forget those special gift tags
Printing and bookmaking workshop at Shabby2Chic December 2014
This week in our workshop with young people at Shabby2Chic we added prints to handmade books
Printing block carved out of rubber and coloured with Posca pen
Prints signed by the artist
Adding prints to the handmade books
Carved printing block coloured using Posca pens
Next week we will be adding the handmade book covers.
Fantasy cactus workshop with Revoe Learning Academy
Fantasic fantasy cactus designed and made by pupils at Revoe Learning Academy for the Fantasy Plant Shop project.
Supported by the community and funded by LeftCoast as part of the ‘Growing People’ initiative in Blackpool.
Fantasy fruit and vegetables with Revoe Learning Academy
A small selection of fantasy fruit and vegetables. Made by pupils from Revoe Learning Academy during our ‘Fantasy plant shop’ workshops.
Young people picked out an unusual fruit or vegetable name from the ‘mystery bag’ then drew out a design based on how they thought they might look. At the end of the session there was an opportunity to research the origins of the fruit or vegetable.
All these items are made from recycled materials.
Can you guess what the fruit or vegetable name was? Or where they may have come from.
Nearly all fruit and vegetables that we eat originate from other parts of the world and are not native to the UK.
Our project Fantasy Plant Shop is funded by LeftCoast.
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