Held in Blyth and Ashington, Northumberland, Temporary Address was a yearlong project that culminated in a month long art event in October 2006. rednile worked as lead artists on the project and invited 3 artists to work alongside them to develop temporary public artworks in Blyth Town. Alongside this rednile developed a group exhibition in Blyth Drill Hall of rednile artists and two other chosen artists, the mentoring of one BA and one MA University student and 8 weeks of ‘master classes’ with Blyth Community College A-level students that culminated in an exhibition of the students work also in the Drill Hall.
The group exhibition at the Hub Site at Blyth Drill Hall featured new work by rednile members Michael Branthwaite, Janine Goldsworthy and Suzanne Hutton who collaborated with Paula Adams, (based in Newcastle working with photography and film) and Nichola Pemberton (based in Leeds and creates large-scale semi-abstract drawings).
Rednile also worked with post-16 Art students from Blyth Community College. The series of workshops for the students were designed to emulate the challenges and processes that a professional artist would experience when they are commissioned to create a piece of public artwork or prepare an exhibition.
‘rednile have been a thoroughly professional body to work alongside, they have provided our students with a real insight into professional artistic practice. Invaluable knowledge which will help shape their future artistic careers’
Paul Sutcliffe Curriculum Leader of Visual Arts, Blyth Community College.
‘This project has been successful in providing residents and visitors to Blyth with an opportunity to view high quality contemporary art in public spaces. The work has given Blyth a new dynamic, stimulating interest and intrigue whilst creating spirited relationships between young artists at different stages in their development’
Helen Moore, Arts Development, Blyth Valley Arts & Leisure.
Artists selected by rednile to participate:
Christina Harvey from Glasgow who created and installed a continuous line of text up to 2000 metres long which explored the unconscious relationship between text and the urban architectural landscape. The line of text (made from stencil and highways spraypaint) crossed the Keel Row shopping centre car park, being cut by cars in its path and as a result changing and editing the viewers’ understanding.
Claire Morgan, For Temporary Address Claire used her commissioning fee and converted it into pennies and built four free standing chimneys stacks inside Keel Row shopping centre.
James Wyness created an urban environmental sound walk with recorded sounds from Blyth including background sound, personal commentary and conversations. The finished piece was an amazing ‘sound map’ of the town and was presented on mp3 players with an accompanying booklet. You can listen and download his piece of work from www.wyness.org
TEMPORARY ADDRESS was initiated by INSPIRE and funded and supported by INSPIRE, Wansbeck District Council, Blyth Valley Borough Council and Arts Council England.