A Barton upon Humber coffee shop is supporting international World Water Day on Tuesday. (March 22)
The popular Ropery Coffee Shop, part of The Ropewalk arts complex, is happy to provide tap water for their customers without any charge.
But on Tuesday it will be asking customers to make a voluntary donation for their tap water which will go towards fighting the global sanitation and water crisis.
This year World Water Day takes as its theme Water for Cities to encourage everyone, from governments to individuals, to address the challenges of urban water management.
“We have always had a strong commitment to WaterAid, which supports World Water Day, and this is just another way of raising money for this very worthwhile cause,” said The Ropewalk’s managing director, Liz Bennet.
“For some years now we have supported the work of WaterAid through various fundraising ideas and asking for voluntary donations for tap water on this day seemed a natural progression,” said The Ropewalk’s managing director, Liz Bennet.
About four years ago The Ropewalk organised knit-in for knitters from all over the area who gathered to knit blue squares which were then sent off down to WaterAid in London to be sewn into what was the world’s first ever knitted petition.
Since then The Ropewalk has supported the charity by channelling money raised from its Book Swap shelves in the Coffee Shop and knitters who sold cushion covers and hot water bottle covers in the Craft Gallery.
“In January this year we were delighted to send to WaterAid £421 which paid for a school sanitation block and a puppet show to teach good hygiene practice,” said Liz. “And we are continuing our support through the Book Swap scheme.”
In a further development, the Coffee Shop has been registered as a refilling station for tap water joining more than 500 pubs, cafes and shops throughout the country who offer the facility.
“We always try to be as green as possible and at the moment we are the only facility within a 40 mile radius to offer this resource to members of the public,” Liz continued.
A refilling station is a cafe, shop or pub which provides tap water for free. A member of the public can come in to any refilling station and get a re-useable bottle filled with tap water at no charge. Details of all refilling stations can be found on www.tapwater.org
The annual exhibition by The Ropewalk Studio artists. Featuring work by:
David Alcock
Sally Beaumont
Emily Connor
Debbie Grice
Richard Hatfield
Gill Hobson
Judith Land
Darren Langton
Tim Needham
Julie Oxenforth
Michael Scrimshaw
Shirley Trumble
Keith Woodcock
The Ropewalk’s popular Christmas Art Market will showcase the work of more than 40 makers and artists.
Taking place over the weekend of Saturday December 7 and Sunday December 8 those makers and artists selected to take part will be selling original handmade gifts, cards and artwork (more…)
Helen Martino would describe her work as being ‘sometimes serious and sometimes playful’. For many years Helen worked as a functional potter, making batches of domestic pots on a wheel. Now she sees herself as more of a maker in clay, hand building each piece individually by using soft and flexible sheets of clay. These sheets of clay are freely cut, curved and sometimes twisted, this is how Helen is able to create different perspectives and distortion within her work. The surface is painted with slip, underglaze pigment and resists. Depending on the piece silver and gold lustre may also be incorporated.
Helen is fascinated by body language and how this can be communicated. She observes Mogul and Persian miniatures and admires how they are able to tell a story within one image. These artworks often show a significant event within the life span of a person or family. Helen’s sculptures are also intimate like the miniature and show a single event that can be applied to the past, future and present, allowing the viewer to determine the story of each artwork.
Working in Cambridge, Helen exhibits widely across the UK and is the founder member of Cambridge Open Studios. She will be exhibiting in the Box Gallery in November.
Yorkshire born and bred, Eleanor Tomlinson is a traditional artist and illustrator based in East Yorkshire. Inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire countryside she has grown up amongst, Eleanor predominantly works in ink and watercolour to specialise in capturing and celebrating UK wildlife and the local countryside. Eleanor’s distinctive style using ink and watercolour, combines traditional, well-loved subjects with a contemporary, illustrative twist. Her use and composition of contrasting white space brings a narrative and sense of movement and energy to her pieces. Eleanor’s artworks have also been developed into a wide range of cards, stationery, limited edition prints and homeware collections alongside her original pieces which are being sold in an array of independent shops and galleries across the UK.
LAND, SEA AND SKY
The theme for this exhibition ‘Land, Sea, and Sky’ was chosen because its wide-ranging associations might be interpreted in many different ways, and in part because the theme was seen to have some relevance to the location of The Ropewalk Gallery. No size limit was imposed and artists were invited to respond to the theme in as wide a way as possible, to be as traditional or as innovative as they wished both in process and format. The final selection includes three dimensional and large format pieces as well as more conventional prints.
Printmakers Council was founded in 1965 by a group of prominent printmakers to raise the profile of printmaking as an art form and to provide an exhibition society for members. For over fifty years PmC has continued to pursue these aims through a rolling programme of exhibitions, lectures and practical workshops.
Two new exhibitions with links to northern Lincolnshire are opening this Saturday (Sept 14) at The Ropewalk arts centre in Barton upon Humber.
In the Artspace is Re-Tellings, a solo exhibition by Grimsby based artist Sue Stone whose work is inspired by people, place and time. (more…)
