blog-site

The correct address for this blogsite is

www.allotted2016.blogspot.co.uk

BOLTON FM

Carol Barlow and Margaret Jackson will be appearing on BOLTON FM's "Community Corner" (7.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.) on Wednesday 27th April.

They'll be talking about allotment matters and of course about the exhibition.

Exhibition Reports

We hope during the run of the exhibition to publish some writings based on the images in the show and our reactions to them. To give a flavour we include below a piece relating to a previous environmentally themed exhibition ' Take to the Trees'

"Raven" by Margaret Jackson

"As she goes through the exhibition, the visitor reaches the back wall of the gallery. She turns her head to look at the painting that takes the centre place. .

Her expression changes and she shudders as if caught by a sudden chill wind.

‘I hate it,’ she says. ‘It’s evil, I couldn’t have that in my house!’

I stand back and consider the painting; needless to say, there is no red spot next to it.

On the blank, white wall of the gallery, the painting seems to throb with life, dominating completely the works around it. The canvas is under-painted in a dense shiny black, creating the illusion of a ‘black hole’, sucking light and life from its surroundings.

The shape made by the grey rocks forming the background resembles giant bleached skulls, or the heads of pagan idols, making the hollow appear as the courtyard of an abandoned temple.

The black, spindly outline of the rowan looks like a skeleton, still wearing its ragged shroud, or perhaps a priestess, guardian of the temple, standing at the entrance; but is she beckoning me in or warning me off?

The circle of shocking, vivid red that dominates the central ground looks like a ring of fire, like a lava flow, or the fires of hell itself. Is this a lost entrance to the underworld?

And then, as my eyes focus on the two outsized black feathers lying in the middle of the ring, the ring becomes a sacred circle, and my mind turns to the ‘black cockerels’ of Lancashire witch-lore; to Satanism and sacrifice.

And I make a mental note to set all this down as soon as I’m out of the gallery."

Excerpt from Pictures at an Exhibition" by David Jackson

SUSAN SYDDALL

Susan Syddall who will be exhibiting at "Allotted" was featured today in the "Bolton News"

Susan is also exhibiting in the current exhibition at the neo:gallery27 "Structure"

Progress Update 14.04.2016

Some Notes from the Slug Soc meeting on Wednesday April 13th 

There were a number of decisions made

1. We selected an image by Kevin (Shipley) to use as the poster -There's a first draft idea for the poster done by David (Jackson) below but Ged Young (Neo) is improving the layout etc. and arranging to get it printed etc. 

2. We have established this 'blog-site' www.allotted2016.blogspot.com to record the development of the exhibition - 

3. We have decided on a layout for the 'catalogue' - it's A5 (based on the one from Dana's exhibition) and each of us gets three pages for images and / or text

4. Ged has agreed to do layout and editing of the catalogue for us - he will need any text ./ images for inclusion by May 8th (although April 30th is preferable) - printing will probably be through Gemini at Bryn (Wigan)

5. Margaret and Maggie are curating the exhibition with help from Janet and hopefully Jason.  – We’re hoping that everyone else will pitch in with the physical side of hanging.

6. We have a current budget of around £550 at present - we think £80 or so for the posters, £300 for the catalogue and the rest divided between setting up costs and the launch / preview.

I think that's everything

Margaret

Provisional Poster

Here's an idea as to how a poster for Allotted might look

It uses an image produced by KEVIN SHIPLEY - who's part of the team, and whose photographs will be featured in the exhibition.

Ged Young from Neo:artists will be improving the poster before it goes on walls, this version is just David playing with his Photoshop app.

Welcome to the Allotted Blogsite

Hello to everyone

This blog records the project by the Slug Society and others to put on the exhibition 'Allotted' at the neo:gallery in the Market Place, Bolton. The exhibition will run from June 30th to August 31st 2016.

The exhibition is being partly funded by a grant from the Bolton Arts Forum and other support is being sought.

We will be updating this blog on at least a weekly basis.

The next meeting of the Slug Society is on Wednesday April 13th - after which we'll post an update