Staff at The Ropewalk in Barton upon Humber will once again be turning up to work later this month wearing the most out-of-places trousers imaginable.
For the second time, those working at the Maltkiln Road art centre will be taking a leaf out of Wallace and Gromit’s book and coming to work in the most wrong pair of trousers they can find to raise money for children’s hospices and hospitals around the country through the Wallace & Gromit Children’s Foundation.
The Ropewalk’s Managing Director, Liz Bennet, explained that the staff first supported the event in 2009 and by popular demand was supporting it again on Friday, June 24.
“Once again are really looking forward to supporting this very worthy cause,” she said.
“Until Wrong Trousers Day no-one knows what weird or wonderful trousers staff will be turning up in but we hope we will once again make our patrons smile as well as raise money for this deserving charity,” Ms Bennet went on.
“We particularly wanted to support the Wallace & Gromit Foundation which organises the event as money raised will fund a broad range of initiatives including art, music and play therapy as well as sensory facilities for children with life-limiting illnesses in hospices and hospitals throughout the country.”
“We hope that our customers will support us on the day and if they too would like to leave a donation for the Foundation then there will be a collecting bowl on the counter of the Coffee Shop,” Ms Bennet said.
Since 2003, Wrong Trousers’ Day has been an outstanding success and raised over £1.3 million for sick children in children’s hospitals and hospices throughout the UK and helped build two new children’s hospitals and a new children’s hospice; provide state of the art equipment; create landscape garden and family accommodation facilities and fund specialist art, play and music therapy projects.
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…)
