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THe hungate Squash
The Hungate squash (September 2021) was
made for St Peter, ‘Hungate’ Church , Princes Street Norwich,
NR3 1AE. This project was part of The Edible East Art and Science trail, examining issues around the 'Future of Food' and sustainability.The project was a
combination of science and art in collaboration with Scientists from the UEA and Artists concerned about climate change and food production and security. Headed by the organiser
Jennie Pedley (an artist and health care worker), supported by SAW and the John Innes centre,
a series of talks surrounding these concerns took place via Zoom in the spring of 2021.
The sculpted and cast Squash, was produced using the same methods as my previous pieces,
using a traditional lime mortar casting method that I had developed during my master of arts course at Norwich University of the Arts. The work represents fecundity or a cornucopia, which seemed apt for this project, not just because of the material link to the fabric of the Heritage Building,
but also the link to the subject matter and the theme of 'Harvest' and the ideas
behind the Edible east project surrounding the future of food so crucial
in this time of Climate change and uncertainty.
The gold leaf reflects the past patronage to the arts evident in our ecclesiastical history. The intention was also and to offer a glimmer of hope to the viewer, stemming from the
state of emergency experienced during dark times of the recent pandemic.
Historically, gold represents financial security and luxury as well as
reflecting,uplifting and illuminating rooms in candlelight.
The Artwork still currently sits and shines in the
Alcove outside above the church porch.
made for St Peter, ‘Hungate’ Church , Princes Street Norwich,
NR3 1AE. This project was part of The Edible East Art and Science trail, examining issues around the 'Future of Food' and sustainability.The project was a
combination of science and art in collaboration with Scientists from the UEA and Artists concerned about climate change and food production and security. Headed by the organiser
Jennie Pedley (an artist and health care worker), supported by SAW and the John Innes centre,
a series of talks surrounding these concerns took place via Zoom in the spring of 2021.
The sculpted and cast Squash, was produced using the same methods as my previous pieces,
using a traditional lime mortar casting method that I had developed during my master of arts course at Norwich University of the Arts. The work represents fecundity or a cornucopia, which seemed apt for this project, not just because of the material link to the fabric of the Heritage Building,
but also the link to the subject matter and the theme of 'Harvest' and the ideas
behind the Edible east project surrounding the future of food so crucial
in this time of Climate change and uncertainty.
The gold leaf reflects the past patronage to the arts evident in our ecclesiastical history. The intention was also and to offer a glimmer of hope to the viewer, stemming from the
state of emergency experienced during dark times of the recent pandemic.
Historically, gold represents financial security and luxury as well as
reflecting,uplifting and illuminating rooms in candlelight.
The Artwork still currently sits and shines in the
Alcove outside above the church porch.
Entropy
Entropy consisting of 4 Spherical lime cast forms were exhibited in The Herb Garden, at Norwich Cathedral, Norfolk, Until the end of April 2022, as part of the Edible East Science & Art Trail.
Pandemic POSTPONED SCULPTURE IN THE VALLEY 2020 became SITV21
The Pandemic Postponed Sculpture in the Valley Exhibition in 2020 turned virtual...
My now 'IMAGINED SCULPTURES' adorned the empty car parks in Norwich's fair city (a city which historically like many, is no stranger to plague). The 'Entropy spheres' took up space where cars would normally have been...
Using photomontage combined with collage I created my own imagined 'Art trail' in this stricken city, focusing on the abandoned brutalist Architecture as part of it's back drop.
Follow the link below to see my work in Room 2, Sculpture in the Valley in the 'Virtually here Exhibition' in Lowestoft town Hall.
www.paper-works-projects.co.uk/
Past Exhibitions
instagram curated Exhibition by alison Holden-Standly
Covid 19 postponed Exhibition
'Time to Talk to Each other'
www.instagram.com/p/B_X4gF3nsRg/
My thanks to Alison Holden-Standly from NUA MA curation who has made this possible.
My new work is in its developmental stage and has come to a bit of a standstill due to the outbreak. However I am working away in the back ground to support my new thoughts and ideas that have stemed from what landscape means to me after loss/c;eansing and also retainment. I am also interested how that landscape will look in the present and future. I am also looking at what defines landscape and out reaction to 'Art' placed in the environment. I am currently developing a new sister site to reflect my journey: louisemaclaren.art
My new work is in its developmental stage and has come to a bit of a standstill due to the outbreak. However I am working away in the back ground to support my new thoughts and ideas that have stemed from what landscape means to me after loss/c;eansing and also retainment. I am also interested how that landscape will look in the present and future. I am also looking at what defines landscape and out reaction to 'Art' placed in the environment. I am currently developing a new sister site to reflect my journey: louisemaclaren.art
the 'Art Car boot Sale', kicked off
the Holt Festival for 2019
In 2018 I began An mA in Fine Art
at Norwich University of the Arts
I have relocated to Norwich. I am available to hire for printmaking courses, workshops and private art lessons.
Mini Print Exhibition
Two of my prints have been selected for this exhibition: 'Pipe Dream' etching & Aquatint and 'Puginistic Emboss' a blind embossing made by running a printing plate through a printing press with out the ink on it but still dampening your paper.
Connection: Open 18
Exhibition Showcasing the best of East Anglian Art.
Wells Maltings, Staithe Street, Wells-next-the-sea, NR23 1AN.
Wells Maltings, Staithe Street, Wells-next-the-sea, NR23 1AN.
'Once Bitten'
An Exhibition of Etching and Intaglio Work by Norfolk Based Artists organised by Print to the people. In association with the wonderful Hahnemuhle papers.
Have you ever made a Collagraph Print?
Collagraph comes from the Greek word Koll or Kolla meaning the glue and graph which means to draw.
It is like Collage in that you create an image by sticking on your chosen materials. The main difference between a Collagraph and a Collage is that you use the finished Collage as a Collagraph printing plate. You force ink into the texture on the plate, then Remove the excess. The final stage involves damp paper being 'lined up' or 'registered' with your collagraph plate and run through a traditional Roller Press or by working a Slama Hand Press over your paper & plate.
It is like Collage in that you create an image by sticking on your chosen materials. The main difference between a Collagraph and a Collage is that you use the finished Collage as a Collagraph printing plate. You force ink into the texture on the plate, then Remove the excess. The final stage involves damp paper being 'lined up' or 'registered' with your collagraph plate and run through a traditional Roller Press or by working a Slama Hand Press over your paper & plate.
Central Taster Exhibition at the Forum, MILLENNIUM plane, Norwich.
Free Printmaking Demo:
WITH LOCAL ARTIST: LOUISE MACLAREN
On Saturday the 18th of February
10.00am- 12.30pm
On Saturday the 18th of February
10.00am- 12.30pm
At St Michael's Hall (Main Hall), Reepham, Norwich; where Louise will be demonstrating how to print limited edition intaglio & relief prints using:
The Slama Hand Press.
The Slama Hand Press.
Winter Events & Exhibitions 2016
Free Taster Printmaking Day in Diss, suffolk
Exhibitions Spring & Summer 2016
Louise Maclaren's 3 Block linocut prints from Cley 15 Contempory Art Exhibition's 'Marvelous in Ordinary' are to be shown in Cromer in May.
Louise presented one of her limited edition linocut prints to the Sheringham Shantymen during August 2015. It now hangs in the home of the Shantymen; Oddfellows Hall, Sheringham, Norfolk, UK.
'And with Music they bring light' a limited edition linocut by Louise Maclaren, June 2015.
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'And with Music they bring light' a limited edition
linocut by Louise Maclaren, June 2015
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The art house cafe
10 High Street, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9HG. Tel: 01263 649856 www.arthouse-cafe.co.uk
2nd May - 12th June 2016
Monday - Saturday 10.00 am - 5.00 pm, Sunday 11.00 am - 4.00 pm
2nd May - 12th June 2016
Monday - Saturday 10.00 am - 5.00 pm, Sunday 11.00 am - 4.00 pm
The Rushlight Gallery
'Still life in Shadow' by Louise Maclaren 2014. Limited edition Drypoint Print.
Open 10.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Saturday
Rushlight Gallery
Market Place
Reepham
NR10 4JJ
Tel: 01603 871266
www.rushlightgallery.com
Weekend Collagraph printmaking workshop
I will be doing more workshops on printmaking during 2016 at various venues throughout Norfolk. Please feel free to contact me about future dates or check my events on the website news page.
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Inspirations for work and Collagraph plates with final intaglio prints 2013. Pressed leaves, flowers, string, fabrics wall papers and most soft textured materials can be used on a plate, provided it is not likely to damage the press.
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Highlights from:
How to turn waste into intaglio prints
19th-20th of September 2015.
Venue : Greyfriars Art space, 43 St James Street, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 5BZ
www.greyfriarsartspace.co.uk
How to turn waste into intaglio prints
19th-20th of September 2015.
Venue : Greyfriars Art space, 43 St James Street, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 5BZ
www.greyfriarsartspace.co.uk
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Printing plates were made by from card and a variety of collage materials.
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They are then inked up and 'wiped off.
Paper is also soaked before printing. |
Plates are layered on felt blankets and paper and then run through the press.
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Collagraph plates look beautiful and produce some interesting prints without much outlay provided you have access to a press. There are many art centers, schools and even printmakers who allow people to use their facilities. See my links for information.
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Feedback:
Hi Louise
Thank you so much for last weekend – it seemed to go so quickly...
I’m delighted with my first attempts – I don’t think they’ll win any prizes but I do feel I’ve learned loads :-)
Good Luck with your move & your future life together!
Best Wishes,
Karen x
Hi Louise
Thank you so much for last weekend – it seemed to go so quickly...
I’m delighted with my first attempts – I don’t think they’ll win any prizes but I do feel I’ve learned loads :-)
Good Luck with your move & your future life together!
Best Wishes,
Karen x
Babylon summer Exhibition
Babylon gallery Ely
adec
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Venue:
The Babylon Gallery, Waterside, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4AU 11th July-16th of August 2015 http://www.adec.org.uk/index.php?adec/whats_on/2015/07 Two of my works were chosen to be in this exhibition; The Chair and Still life in shadow. limited edition Drypoint prints. |
CLEY 15: CLEY CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
'Marvellous in Ordinary'
Cley 15's Contemporary Art Exhibition: Marvellous in Ordinary.
I exhibited three of my twenty seven, three block, caustic etched, Limited edition Linocut relief prints on scrolls of hand embossed paper exhibited in the church during July 2015.
The work is called 'And with music, they bring light'. Inspired by a photograph I took of a local sea shanty band from Norfolk: 'The Sheringham Shantymen'. On one of our coastal walks into Sheringham we came across them on a slipway standing around a fishing boat, some of them dispersing. In my work they represent some of the lost and dying industries here in Norfolk such as; the fishing industry.
Clearly the shantymen have a strong connection to their immediate locality, the sea and the fishing industry; they are almost lovingingly standing around that boat. I was so warmed by that sense of community and place they exuded, coupled with the extraordinary scene of them standing on the slipway on a bright september day contrasted with long shadows, that I immediately wanted to immortalize it a series of handmade prints.
The Idea of the paper came from trying to source authentic local materials as much a s humanly possible. Seeing that the paper making industry here in Norfolk had become extinct like the printing industry here near Fakenham, I did some research. I found that Taverham had been a very productive Papermill after it had had several types of milling industries in it before the paper took over and was first recorded to be in existence in 1701.
It has quite a history and was used in Producing the University Press at Cambridge, The Oxford English Dictionary, Bank of England Banknotes and the Times News paper. Two other extinct paper mills are also represented in the work: Lyng which was closely associated with Taverham and also Thetford Paper Mill for its famous Pulpware.
I decided to try and use other English made papers to represent the mills. I chose Somerset Paper from St Cuthbert's Mill, Somerset: Wookey Hole Cotton Rag Paper, from Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset and lastly an Italian paper; Fabriano because of its wonderful qualities for embossing and also the fact that no more surviving British Paper Mills came to light.
I hand carved the Stamps in linocut from images associated with these Mills. I then used them to emboss the paper, which was then rolled to display the prints and represent the Mills.
Cited from:
http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Watermills/taverham.html
http://users.aber.ac.uk/das/texts/paper.htm
I exhibited three of my twenty seven, three block, caustic etched, Limited edition Linocut relief prints on scrolls of hand embossed paper exhibited in the church during July 2015.
The work is called 'And with music, they bring light'. Inspired by a photograph I took of a local sea shanty band from Norfolk: 'The Sheringham Shantymen'. On one of our coastal walks into Sheringham we came across them on a slipway standing around a fishing boat, some of them dispersing. In my work they represent some of the lost and dying industries here in Norfolk such as; the fishing industry.
Clearly the shantymen have a strong connection to their immediate locality, the sea and the fishing industry; they are almost lovingingly standing around that boat. I was so warmed by that sense of community and place they exuded, coupled with the extraordinary scene of them standing on the slipway on a bright september day contrasted with long shadows, that I immediately wanted to immortalize it a series of handmade prints.
The Idea of the paper came from trying to source authentic local materials as much a s humanly possible. Seeing that the paper making industry here in Norfolk had become extinct like the printing industry here near Fakenham, I did some research. I found that Taverham had been a very productive Papermill after it had had several types of milling industries in it before the paper took over and was first recorded to be in existence in 1701.
It has quite a history and was used in Producing the University Press at Cambridge, The Oxford English Dictionary, Bank of England Banknotes and the Times News paper. Two other extinct paper mills are also represented in the work: Lyng which was closely associated with Taverham and also Thetford Paper Mill for its famous Pulpware.
I decided to try and use other English made papers to represent the mills. I chose Somerset Paper from St Cuthbert's Mill, Somerset: Wookey Hole Cotton Rag Paper, from Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset and lastly an Italian paper; Fabriano because of its wonderful qualities for embossing and also the fact that no more surviving British Paper Mills came to light.
I hand carved the Stamps in linocut from images associated with these Mills. I then used them to emboss the paper, which was then rolled to display the prints and represent the Mills.
Cited from:
http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Watermills/taverham.html
http://users.aber.ac.uk/das/texts/paper.htm
