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cover image: Colin Glen Scribble 11 closeup design template: Chris J Bailey ©2008 design: SVA ©2009
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a festival of ar tist led projects
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festival programme
 welcome to site09
This site festival now in its13th year, presents the work of over 300 local artists in 83 sites across the Stroud Valleys during the
whole month of June. The site festival creates a platform for artists and artist collectives to show new work, to initiate new
projects, and work collaboratively with other artists. Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA), the festival host organisation, will be
opening its doors to invite you to a month long programme of exhibitions, open studios, film screenings, talks and performance.
site09 is working in partnership with Alias, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary to a programme of activities.
This years site09darbyshire award exhibition at the Museum in the Park has been selected by Tom Trevor, director of the
Arnolfini and will feature contemporary artists from across the UK. Another highlight of the festival is the film screening
programme, 'Figuring Landscapes' which is a remarkable collection of moving-image works by 58 Australian and UK artists.
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The screening, presented by Mezzanine, focuses on landscape to address questions of ecological survival, post-industrialism,
gender, the touristic gaze, and uniquely in Australia, the status of indigenous people in a post-colonial society.
site09 makes international connections as we welcome Jamila Lamrani, a Moroccan-based artist to SVA’s studios as part of the
Arts Council England ‘ Inhabit’ artist residency scheme. Sally Hampson will be showing 'The Seven Poets' Coats' project, inspired
by pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, an ongoing site-specific project, previously shown in Qatar, Egypt and Morocco.
This year SVA is working with local businesses by making creative use of empty shops in Stroud for exhibitions and workshops.
Amongst these will be ‘Seven’ an exhibition by Unit 4 Studio group, at Stroud House and ‘Tray’ a shop window exhibition trail,
starting from SVA, John Street, of South West based artists work. An intriguing connection will be engendered between two
contrasting places; a gallery space in a busy residential part of Stroud and a woodland glade in the Forest of Dean Sculpture
Park, through Colin Glen’s project ‘The Clearing’.
One of the best things about the festival is the opportunity to meet artists living and working in the Stroud Valleys and get to
know their work. There will be two weekends of Open Studios with 116 artists inviting you to see their work within their
working environment, buy directly from them and to talk about their practice. Pick up the Open Studios Directory for all the
information you need to plan your studio visits. SVA is linked to Alias, a network of South West based artist-led groups, many of
whom will be opening their doors to the public as part of a regional 24hr open studios event.
site09 also brings you an eclectic mix of performance nights ranging from experimental music with Sarah Kenchington and
Daniel Padden, performance poetry from festival favorite John Hegley and punk jazz from The Blessing whose debut album
'All is Yes' won the coveted BBC Jazz Album of the Year last year.

We hope you enjoy the festival and will let us know that by coming back again next year.

editorial
logistics Jo Leahy, Neil Walker
design SVA ©
design template Chris Bailey ©
cover image Colin Glen
www.sva.org.uk publisher SVA ©2009

www.sitefestival.org.uk Figuring Landscapes Stroud Valleys Artspace:

Image by Shaun Gladwell

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contents
introductory essay p06
exhibitions p08
exhibitions and events p10
film screenings p12
talks and discussion p13
performance p14
alias events p16
exhibition and events adverts p18
maps p24
calendar p26
further information p27
 Open Studios Henri Kyriacou drawing; Open Studios Exhibition Angela Findlay photograph; John Street Open Studios Jamila Lamrani, installation;

'Painting relates to both art and life… (I try to work in that gap between the two)' (Rauschenberg, 1959, p58)
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When I first moved to Stroud three years ago I was aware that there were a lot of artists here and that the area had historical
associations with the Arts and Crafts Movement. I have subsequently come to recognise that the town is, at least partly, defined
by its artists. Certainly, art plays a considerable role in the life of the town: there is an unusual amount of activity, the exhibitions,
screenings etc. that run throughout the year, with SVA as a vital focus and the site09 festival as a celebratory high point. But there
is something else that is perhaps more significant, which is the role that artists play in the life of the town. I seem to encounter
artists everywhere, at the school gates, in the local shops, generally going about their everyday business, but also actively
participating in the community, contributing, lending a hand in one way or another.
Art theorists have long sanctioned a dialogue between art and the everyday. In the 60's Arthur Danto looked at Warhol’s
'Brillo Boxes' and concerned himself with identifying the difference between art and other kinds of things and the ‘transfiguration of
the commonplace’ through art. More recently, Nicolas Bourriaud has proposed a ‘Relational Aesthetics’, an aesthetic theory in
which artworks are judged ‘in terms of the inter-human relations which they show, produce, or give rise to’ (Bourriaud 1998, p117).
However, in all these theories art and the everyday remain conceived as a polarized duality.
Living here in Stroud, amongst so many artists, it becomes easier to see art not only as a specialized set of activities and a
category of objects that stand outside of normal experience, but as a mode of being. For many artists a sense of integration, in
which their practice does not take place in Rauschenburg’s gap, or even Kaplow’s fluid line, but is rather continuous with all other
aspects of their selves, is a central issue. Talking about her practice as a potter Carla Needleman said “A craft is not its objects; a
craft is how I am when I am making them (and eventually, one would dearly hope, how I am the rest of the time, as a result of what has
been transformed in me through craftsmanship). The objects of the craft are by-products, very essential by-products, of the way I work.”
(Needleman, 1979, p.123)
This reframes Danto’s notion of ‘transfiguration’ and suggests that creative work, leading to a transformation in the artist, has
a positive effect beyond the artist themselves. It suggests a continuity of experience in which art becomes “prefigured in the very
processes of living” (Dewey, 1934, p.24). This is an idea that has a powerful resonance with Stroud’s links with the Arts and Crafts
movement, and it is one that has recently been reiterated by Richard Sennett in his book 'The Craftsman', where he argues that
‘the capacities our bodies have to shape physical things are the same capacities we draw on in social relations.' (Sennett, 2008)
site09 reflects this vital context. It is often the case that exhibitions, concerned with selling or with curating artefacts, detach
the work from the practice and emphasise qualities that make more sense within the gallery culture. It is a common criticism of
open studios events that participating artists feel compelled to use the occasion to give their studios a good clear out and to
‘curate' or present their work in a pristine, gallery-like setting, whilst visitors come to gain some insight through access to the
04 working space, to make some more intimate connection with the work through access to the experience of the maker. The
organisers of the site festival encourage participating artists to explore this potential. Open Studios, by pulling the object back in
Seven, John Street Open Studios Matt Curtis painting, photograph by Nigel Noyes; Helen Kincaid painting; Ralph Macartney Installation; John Street Open Studios Jamila Lamrani, installation;

'The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible' (Kaprow, 1966, p188)

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to the context of it’s making, makes explicit the way that the practice becomes part of the content of the work and opens up a
dialogue about meaning. The studios, shaped by distinctive practices and reflecting something of the occupants personalities, are
all different, and yet they are all familiar, human spaces, animated by the presence of the artist. They have evolved on a human
scale, everything within reach. They each have tools in common, and a kind of order, linked to action and purpose. There are
models, experiments, waste materials, all the detritus of making. There are images and objects that represent reference points for
the work, and, always, a radio. But more than these things, they share a sense of intimate introspection. The artists have gathered
this space around themselves to facilitate reverie as well as production.
The artist-led nature of the exhibitions and events compound this model. They seem close to home, connected in some way to
their source. Many artists will talk about the integration of art into their lives, so that their experience is not compartmentalised.
However, they often feel a disjunction at the point when the work leaves them and takes its place in the gallery. For some artists
exhibiting means simply handing over the work. Not only do they lose control of its presentation, but the work becomes
detached from the context that was essential to its invention. Without a dialogue with their audience there seems to be a void.
Exhibiting, communicating and selling the work, so vital to artists, can actually sit outside of the ongoing process in which they are
engaged. It is easy, in the void described above, to underestimate the ability of the audience to trace something of the process in
the work, to feel vicariously through the work something of the artists experience. Surely some part of the thinking and dreaming,
the looking, the drawing and the careful making, some part of the workshop and actually, of the lived experience of the artist
adheres to the work. Surely this all becomes the secret content of the work, and perhaps it is this, beyond any other quality that
lies behind the powerful and enduring appeal of things made by an individual hand, out of an individual imagination.
The site festival, crucially, facilitates a dialogue, between artists, between artists and audience, between the work and its
location. The ‘work’, seen in the site festival context, is recognised as a mere resting point in an endless process of making that is
indivisible from the maker, the making space and the wider world of it’s making.
by Paul Harper, writer and researcher

Bourriaud, N. (1998) Esthétique Relationnelle (Dijon, Presses du reel) Translation by Simon Pleasance and Fronza Woods
Danto, A. (1981) The Transformation of the Commonplace: a philosophy of art (Cambridge MA and London, Harvard University Press)
Dewey, J. (1934) Art as Experience (New York, Pedigree Books)
Needleman, C. (1979) The Work of Craft: an inquiry into craft and the nature of craftsmanship
Raushenburg, R. (1959) ‘Untitled Statement’ in Dorothy C. Miller (ed) Sixteen Americans (New York, Moma)
Kaprow, A. (1966) Assemblages, Environments and Happenings (New York, Harry N. Abrahams) 05
Sennett, R. (2008) The Craftsman (London, Allan Lane)
 Site09 Darbyshire Award: Emily Smith Installation, photograph by Nigel Noyes; The Clearing, Colin Glen Installation; Seven, Matt Curtis painting; Open Studios exhibition Alison Cockcroft, sculpture
exhibitions
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6th-30th June
Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm
■ The Museum in the Park
Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
■ tel: 01453 763394
■ www.stroud.gov.uk/museum
The site09 darbyshire award exhibition
will present selected work from an open
submission by UK based contemporary
artists shortlisted by Tom Trevor, director
of the Arnolfini in Bristol. At the heart of
Bristol's harbourside, Arnolfini is one of
Europe's leading centres for the
contemporary arts.
Tom Trevor will select one of the exhibiting
artists for the darbyshire award. Darbyshire
Framers are offering a prize of framing
services to the winner and SVA will also host
a solo exhibition of the selected artist at John
Street, Stroud in the following spring.
Darbyshire Framers is a leading framer
and art fabricator in the contemporary art
world and has attracted a range of high-
profile artists to commercial and public
galleries such as Gagosian and White Cube
Galleries
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The Clearing
3rd-27th June
Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm
■ No.1 Middle Street, Stroud, GL5 1DZ
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust
Beechenhurst Lodge, Coleford
■ www.jelf.com
■ www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk
Colin Glen’s new work for Jelf Projects will
engender an intriguing connection
between two contrasting places; a gallery
space in a busy residential part of Stroud -
the ultimate symbol of the cultured, built
environment - and the eerie stillness of a
woodland glade in the Forest of Dean
Sculpture Park. A skeletal construction in
whitened timber framework, recreating
the internal dimensions of the gallery
space, will be placed in a clearing in the
Forest whilst on the walls of the space will
hang photographs of views from the
sculpture out into the surrounding
woodland. The work is intended to act as
the starting point for a series of discussion
events as part of Glen’s ongoing ‘in
negotiation’ project which encourages
opinion, conversation and conflict as an
essential element of critical process.
Seven
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1st-30th June
Wed - Sat 11am to 5pm
or by appointment
■ Stroud House, Station Road,
Stroud, GL5 2HH
■ www.unit4studio.com
This year Unit 4 Studio artists create a
show of individual and collaborative
artworks in the recently vacated Stroud
House Gallery space. The Unit 4 artists
are Helen Kinkaid (Painter), Matt Curtis
(Painter), Ralph Macartney (Sound, video
and drawing), Mat Moran (Mixed media
graphics), Dan Sparkes (Mixed media
graphics), Nadine Faye James (Illustrator)
and Genevieve Frosch (Photographer/
Painter).
The new home of the Unit 4 Studio is
in the front building of Stroud Valleys
Artspace.The studio environment is a
fertile creative hub, which allows the
coming together of a diverse range of
studio practices encouraging unique and
exciting collaborations.
Supported in kind by Griffiths Clark.
 Open Studios exhibition Kate Loveday Painting; Site09 Contemporary Drawing exhibition Fionna Hesketh drawing; The Seven Coats Project Sally Hampson textiles

Open Studios exhibition Site09 Contemporary Drawing The Seven Poets' Coats' Project

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1st-30th June exhibition 1st-30th June

Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm
Sundays 14th and 21st June 12-4pm
■ The Subscription Rooms,
George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE
■ tel: 01453 760999
■ www.stroud.gov.uk
The Open Studios exhibition brings
together the artists inviting you into their
homes, studios and workshops around
Stroud giving an overview of the exciting
art on offer. It is the perfect opportunity
to plan a route around the valleys so you
don’t have to miss a thing. New for this
year is the public vote where you can
support your favourite artists and show
your support for the art in Stroud. A
perfect way to start and end your tour of
Stroud’s varied and inspired art
community.
30th May-14th June
Daily 10am-5pm
■ Ruskin Mill
Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 OLA
■ tel: 01453 837537
■ www.rmet.co.uk
This year’s site09 contemporary drawing
show is curated by Noela Bewry, Sue Rae
and Maggie Shaw.
In keeping with an emerging tradition
within the festival, the show provides an
opportunity to see the drawing practice of
a group of artists who work in various
disciplines such as sculpture, jewellery,
ceramics, textiles and painting
Fridays and Saturdays 10am-6pm
Sundays 14th and 21st June 12-4pm
■ 33 High Street, Stroud
International artist Sally Hampson will be
showing 'The Seven Poets' Coats' project,
an ongoing site-specific project, previously
shown in Qatar, Egypt and Morocco.
Inspired by pre-Islamic Arabic poetry of
the sixth and seventh centuries, this
project explores a collection of poems
known as the Mu'allaqat, or 'suspended
poems'. Through colour, texture and
fragments of script, the poets and their
poems are brought back from the desert
for a brief glimpse, summoning them into
the present. Sally has worked on projects
in Egypt and Sinai with Bedouin women,
which has taken her out into remote parts
of the desert and more recently to
Ethiopia and Kenya. The richness of these
cultures continues to inspire and influence
her work. Combining these journeys with
research and collaboration with the
anthropologist and explorer Kitty Lake,
the resulting collections have previously
been shown at both the Pitt Rivers and
Horniman Museums.
Supported in kind by Trevor Barnes 07

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 Sketching in the Air artNucleus photograph; Quercus: Aimee Lax sculpture; Anna Usbourne drawing; Ann-Margreth Bohl stonecarving

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Sketching in the Air Quercus: Beyond the Verge. Tray
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Saturday 13th-Sunday 14th June
Saturday 20th-Sunday 21st June
11am-6pm
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace,
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
■ www.artnucleus.org
A chance to look behind the scenes of a
two-year (2008–10) residency by
artNucleus (aka Reinhild Beuther & Simon
Ryder) as they work in the Academic &
Pathology departments of the North
Bristol NHS Trust. 'Sketching in the Air' is
a work-in-progress exhibition, including
sketchbooks, proposals and photos that
focus on such diverse subjects as French
soldiers from the Napoleonic wars, DNA
analysis, deep freezing horsetail ferns and
a massive koy carp. The artists will be
present on all four days to answer any
questions.
■ used as a gallery / project space / shop for
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Saturday 13th-Sunday 14th June
Saturday 20th-Sunday 21st June
11am-6pm
■ The Courtyard
Stroud Valleys Artspace,
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
A collaborative response to the rural and
urban margins.
"The verge is both the vertical measure
and the horizontal measure, the boundary
marker and the greensward within, both
spindle of time and stretch of space; both
woman and man; paper and pen; hesitation
and wickedness."
(Of Memory, Reminiscence and Writing: On
the Verge. D. Farell Krell.)
Quercus is Ann-Margreth Bohl, Alison
Cockroft, Aimee Lax, Emily Smith and
Anna Usborne.
30th May-30th June
Stroud Valleys Artspace,
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
■ Shop windows in Stroud town centre
■ www.jackgibbon.co.uk/tray
Tray is a month long exhibition of works
by 15 Southwest based artists. All the
works in the show incorporate in some
way a 72cm x 86cm x 3cm large old
wooden paper tray. These trays came into
the artists' hands as the result of a recent
local business premises clearance. The
trays, made suddenly redundant have been
rethought and adapted by the artists and
are now presented in shop window spaces
left empty in the streets of Stroud.
As well as Tray works suspended and
exhibited in the shop window frontages,
the show also includes a space hidden
behind the Trays and boards in the SVA
John street shop space. This space will be
small artworks using ready-mades and
found objects and will be open during the
Saturdays of the festival and for the Open
Studio weekends. The exhibition will host
a readymade related event on 13th June.
For more details and map visit website.
Supported in kind by Andrew Wattons

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 Tray Rebecca Hiscocks painting; Kevin Storrar painting; Stroud College Arts Academy, On View; Live and Dead Art Rapunzel painting
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Stroud College Arts Academy
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6th-12th June
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday 10am-4pm
24th-26th June
Wednesday-Friday 9am-5pm
■ Stroud College in Gloucestershire
Stratford Road, Stroud GL5 4AH
■ Tel: 01453 763424
■ www.stroud.ac.uk
Stroud College has a highly successful Art
Academy that has been recognised in the
last three successive inspections as being
“grade 1” outstanding. It has a diverse
range of courses from single days to two
years; from fine art, to design, music
technology, multimedia and more. The
element that unites this whole variety is
the quality of the teaching. The staff in the
Arts Academy are passionate about their
own varied subjects, and totally committed
to the idea of Arts education.
The students have access to the wide
range of facilities and workshops at the
college, including; photography darkroom,
3D workshop, Mac and PC computer
suites, print workshop, crafts workshop,
music and video production suites,
extensive Arts library and purpose built
studios.
Stroud College Arts Academy in
association with 'On View'
■ 1st-30th June
Daily
■ Old Woolworths
1-2 Kings Street, Stroud, GL5 3BU
■ email: on_view@btinternet.com
On View is an artist led initiative that
recognises the creative opportunities of
vacant shop premises. Its aim is twofold,
to aid regeneration and provide a high
street location for artists to create and
show work.
The work on view for the whole of June
is from the Foundation Degree in Creative
Practice Year 1, at Stroud College. The
course gives students two years of
exploring a range of art and craft
disciplines with the opportunity to go on
to a final third year at the University of
the West of England to make it up to a full
honours degree. These students are on
their way to developing a sustainable
personal practice rooted in intellectual
and practical creativity.
Live and Dead Art
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13th-21st June
Daily 1pm-6pm
Tower House
■ South Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5NZ
The Rapunzels are a group of 10 artists
based in Woodchester. They live and work
together in an old tumbledown mansion
with a tower. They share meals and
materials as well as thoughts and
inspiration.
They have all gravitated to this place,
some arriving and others returning. They
want to live communally and work
alongside other creative people.
This is the first time they will be letting
down their long hair and inviting you to
see what they’ve been up to.
The exhibition 'Live and Dead Art',
includes interactive installation,
performance, jewellery, illustration, fashion
textiles, photography, fine art and writing.
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 Thinking about...food Kel Portman photograph; John Street Open Studios Jamila Lamrani installation;
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Thinking About…Food
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1st-29th June
from 11.00am (closed Mondays)
Old Passage Inn, Arlingham, GL2 7JR
■ tel: 01452 740547
■ www.walkingtheland.org.uk
Artists have a long history of interest in
food’s visual qualities, but other subjects
arise as they examine its progress from
sea, river, garden, allotment or farm
through to the plate. Organised jointly by
Sally Pearce and ‘Walking the Land’, this
exhibition includes works by painters,
printmakers, poets, photographers and
sculptors who examine food’s visual,
cultural and ecological impact. Take part in
voting for the winner of The Old Passage
Art Award, the publics' favourite artwork,
from the collection.
■ River Severn ArtWalk
6th, 13th, 27th June 9am-12:45pm
Old Passage Inn, Arlingham, GL2 7JR
■ This ArtWalk of around 5 Km alongside
the River starts from The Old Passage Inn
at Arlingham. Participants will be invited
to make their own artwork and examine
‘the walk’ and the River as their subject.
£7.50 Booking essential
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Roving Studio presents…The Art
of Westley Farming
Saturday 20th-Sunday 21st June
10am until Sundown
■ Westley Farm, Cowcombe Hill,
Chalford, GL6 8HP.
www.rovingstudio.co.uk
www.westleyfarm.co.uk/site09.htm
A collective cross-pollination celebrating
ecological and creative diversity. Westley
Farm has been a haven for artists,
performers and craftspeople since 1972,
encouraging the growth of endangered
species from butterflies to boat-builders.
This year’s collaboration for site09 will
celebrate that legacy. A rich diversity of
thoughtful artisans - seeds gathered by
Roving Studio and nurtured in the creative
compost of the farm - will bloom for you
in a mid-summer weekend. Weaving
together threads from Geo-Archaeology;
Anthropology; Ecology, Arts and Crafts,
Land Art and Contemporary Multi-Media
we explore stories from the land in times
of Transition.
Park in the layby to walk down the
Timeline Track; disabled parking only at
the farm. Terrace and Treehouse Teas
available, in the company of Julian
Usborne, host and walking archive.
Global Bee project
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1st-30th June
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday 10am-4pm
■ 4 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AA
www.theglobalbeeproject.com
■ The worldwide decline in bees is effecting
■ all species of bee not just honeybees. In
the UK alone there are more than 250
species. Bees are essential for the
pollination of the plants that feed us. With
support from the Princes Trust and
UnLTD Millenium Awards, Carlo
Montesanti and Jessie Jowers have recently
set up The Global Bee Project as a “Not
for Profit” organisation to tackle this
global problem on a very local level.
An empty shop in Stroud will be
transformed into a magical and informative
world of bees and plants. Jessie and Carlo
will use the space to design and build bee
houses, created for a non aggressive
variety of bee, Osmia Rufa. These bees
can be looked after by anyone without the
complications of disease, expensive
equipment or the fear of being stung.
These bees are incredible pollinators, a
single bee pollinates the equivalent to 120
honeybees.
 John Street Open Studios Maggie Shaw painting; The Art of Westley Farming Kate Raggett installation Thinking about trees Richard Keating photograph; The End Barney and Lucy Heywood photograph

John Street Open Studios Thinking About…Trees The End

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Saturday 13th-Sunday 14th June
Saturday 20th-Sunday 21st June
■ 11am-6pm
Stroud Valleys Artspace,
■ 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
SVA studio members will be opening their
spaces to the public. Visitors will be
encouraged to fully explore the studio
working environment and to engage with
artists in conversation.
The studios provide a collaborative
working environment and home for artist
groups including Quercus, artNucleus,
Studio Seven and Unit 4.
Jamila Lamrani, a Moroccan-based artist
will in be residence at SVA during the
festival. This project is part of the Inhabit
International Artists Residency Scheme
funded by the Arts Council. Jamila Lamrani
makes installations and sculptures which
explore the tensions and textures of
materials to reveal relationships between
symmetry and dissymmetry, balance and
imbalance, the laws of gravitation and
upward attraction.
This is a great opportunity to see what
takes place at SVA and find out more
about the future plans.
■ Stratford Park, Stroud
Saturday 20th June
10am-12.30pm, 2pm-4.30pm
w: walkingtheland.org.uk
■ Walking the Land artists invite you to join
them in making art work that celebrates,
reflects and responds to the trees in the
tree collection in Stratford Park. As part
of an ongoing study and observation of
how artists and non-artists value trees,
Walking the Land offer support in studying
the trees, considering their biology,
aesthetics and cultural significance and in
identifying what it is about them that
resonates with us.
Using these studies you will be
encouraged to complete a piece of work
on the day that can be incorporated into
a temporary ‘Tree Gallery in the Park’.
In addition, a selection of the resulting
artworks will form an exhibition to be
arranged later in the year and also feature
on Walking the Land’s website eGallery
Participants will need to bring their
own choice of materials, cameras and
equipment.
Free
For booking tel: 01452 812224 &
01453 756064
Friday June 12th 8pm
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace,
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
A short film by Barney and Lucy Heywood
shot in a single static take in an entirely
fabricated set. With photographs from the
shoot by Sam Hofman.
"I live my whole life in this place. I know
this town and the forest better than the
veins on the back of my hand, and yet I am
feeling, here, I don't belong."
Ernest Samson is trapped by a rare
condition that causes him to speak in a
foreign accent. Alienated by his fellow
elderly residents, he finds the familiar
landscape of home has been altered and
his precious memories corrupted.
His saviour comes in the unlikely form
of Amir, a young Muslim care worker who
reveals an unexpected affinity with
Ernest’s situation and offers him a key to
the peace he so desires.
The End is about home, limbo and
self discovery.
£4.00
For booking tel: 01453 751440
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 Figuring Landscapes: Patricia Piccinini; Shaun Gladwell; Sofia Dahlgren; Andrew Kötting
film screenings
Figuring Landscapes
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Tuesdays throughout June 7.30pm
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace,
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Figuring Landscapes is a remarkable
1a collection of moving-image works by 58 1a 02 Encounter (60 mins)
Australian and UK artists. The screenings
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focus on landscape to address questions of
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ecological survival, post-industrialism,
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gender, the touristic gaze, and uniquely in
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Australia, the status of indigenous people
in a post-colonial society.
Recently shown at Tate Modern, the
first screening in the series will be
introduced by Figuring Landscapes curator
Steven Ball (British Artists' Film and Video
Study Collection).
This is the first in a series of events to
be presented by Mezzanine
www.mezz.info
01 Engagement (65 mins)
Tue 2nd June 7.30pm
A selection of films in which landscape is
experienced as a spatial encounter with
specific places, journeying across distance
and memory, custom and industry, on land,
on water and through the air. Amongst the
artists featured is Andrew Kötting who,
12 with his folklorist's ear for the humour of
film screenings
the vernacular, takes a boat upstream in
Jaunt; while in Petrolia Emily Richardson
uses time lapse techniques to look at the
oil industry on the Scottish coast.
1a human presence. In Margaret Tait’s Portrait
Tue 9th June 7.30pm
The political and cultural engagement with
place and being on the land are unpacked
and imaginatively reinvigorated in this
screening. The programme includes Ann
Donnelly’s Political Landscape, a video
interpreting Northern Ireland’s conflicted
landscape from the perspective of personal
family history, and Vernon Ah Kee’s Cant
Cant (Wegrewhere) in which the iconic
surfing beach of white mythology is
reappropriated by Aborginal surfers.
03 Surroundings (70 mins)
Tue 16th June 7.30pm
This programme explores the ambiance of
place as it resonates from the broad scope
of the horizon to the intimacy of the
closely observed. In Shaun Gladwell’s
Approach to Mundi Mundi, the sublime
immensity of the Outback acts as the
backdrop to a black-leather-clad biker. In
contrast Mike Marshall’s Days Like These is
about the space of an English garden.
04 Enactment (70 mins)
Tue 23rd June 7.30pm
Figures in the landscape: human presence
writes and performs the landscape as
much as the landscape inscribes and enacts
■of Ga, the fragmented impressions of her
■mother (an elderly Orcadian) form a "film
■poem". Australian artist Patricia Piccinini
■makes immersive computer-generated
environments which, in her film Sandman,
creates a sense of terror as a girl drifts in
a tempestous ocean.
05 Anti-Terrain (120 mins)
Tue 30th June 7.30pm
Landscape is shaped by our relationship to
it. Custodianship of the land and its
efficacy transcends a human lifetime. Esther
Johnson's Hinterland plays as a poem to
the people who inhabit Europe’s fastest
eroding coastline. In Semiconductor’s All
the Time in the World, the siesmic activity
beneath Northumbria is reanimated to
sculpt and bring to life the constantly
shifting geography.
£3.00 or £12.00 for all five screenings
£12 full colour catalogue
For booking tel: 01453 751440
 Thinking Landscape Paul Caffell photography; In the Mind's Eye Carolyn White painting; Joseph Beuys photograph by Cliff Gorman
talks and discussion
Thinking Landscape
■ ■
Tuesday 23rd June 2am-5.30pm
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
■ 01453 751440
1a www.sva.org.uk
■ 1a Carolyn White and herbalist and healer,
■ The landscape genre, in the visual arts,
■ performance and writing, continues to
■ reinvent and extend itself conceptually
■ into agendas around space, place and
identity. It is developing ever-more
complex, cross-disciplinary methodologies,
in the wider context of sustainability and
climate change. This seminar will explore
some of the emerging contours, layers and
boundaries of the field, focusing on the
thinking, approaches and work of local
artists, writers and arts groups, in advance
of a major symposium on landscape
planned for Stroud, in October. A
collaboration between PhotoStroud, SVA
and Stroud College in Gloucestershire, the
seminar builds on new initatives in the
Stroud Valleys and precedes one of the
‘Figuring Landscapes’ evening screenings
presented by Mezzanine for site09
£6/£4 (c) limited places.
Includes light refreshments
For bookings tel: 01453 824212
email: info@photostroud.co.uk
In the Mind's Eye Joseph Beuys: the man, his art
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Sunday 7th June 11am and his world view
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace* Wednesday 17th June 8pm
An exploration into the process of healing ■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
lies at the heart of this talk by artist Cliff Gorman will explore Joseph Beuys’
1a influences and influence. Beuys was one of
Nathan Hughes. A series of paintings and
■ ■the most important artists in the
pastels from 'visualisations' arising out of
■ ■1970/80's. His solo exhibition, 30 years
Nathan's treatment at Ruskin Mill
■ ■ago, at the Guggenheim Museum in New
Apothecary heralds a new creative
■ ■York, created such a furore that patrons
landscape for Carolyn White. swarmed the sales desk demanding their
£3 For bookings tel: 01453 751440 money back, after seeing what they
considered fraudulent art. At the same
time in Germany 'Der Spiegel’s' cover was
devoted to a picture of Beuys (a rare
occurrence for a living artist) that led with
the question: "Beuys, charlatan or genius?"
Today his ideas still have the power to
create waves. Beuys was a founder
member of the German Green Party, an
environmental artist and campaigner. His
statement 'Everyone is an Artist'
encapsulates the importance he gave to
art. He wanted to expand the very notion
of art and considered his teaching as his
most important art. Beuys studied the
works of Rudolf Steiner. Some argue that
all his art was influenced by Steiner.
£3 For bookings tel: 01453 751440
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 Daniel Padden and Sarah Kenchington; Site Festival Carnival;
performance
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■ Daniel Padden and Sarah
Kenchington
Sunday 31st May 8pm
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
■ 01453 751440
■ www.sva.org.uk
Daniel Padden is a multi-instrumentalist
and member of the cult experimental
band 'Volcano The Bear'. He also forms
with 'The One Ensemble', an avant-
chamber-folk group based in Scotland.
As well as recording and performing as a
solo artist, he creates music for film and
theatre.
Sarah Kenchington plays her own
invented, pedal driven, music machine, it
has horns, a hurdy gurdy-banjo and a giant
mbira. Her music can sound orchestral,
animal, mechanical, uncomfortable or
dainty. She performs solo (Shy Showoff )
and with the Book Of Beasts.
Daniel Padden and Sarah Kenchington
will be coming to Stroud from the
Serpentine Gallery in London, where they
are launching their new album, 'The Bellow
Switch' (Shadazz records)
£5.00/£4.00 (c)
Tickets are available from Kanes records
14 or on the door
performance
■ Site Festival Carnival
Saturday 6th June 1pm
■ Bank Gardens, Stroud
Schools and community groups have been
working over the spring on a exotic flower
theme and the results can be witnessed on
the streets of Stroud when 500
participants take root in a vibrant and
colourful procession. The masquerade will
wind, hustle and shake its way through
town until it finally comes to rest in a
colourfuly transformed Bank Gardens.
Here the festivities will continue
throughout the day culminating in a
spontaneous night of latin music and
dance.
■ In a latin groove
Saturday 6th June 9pm - 3am
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
A vibrant and colourful night of Samba,
Latin and Brazillian music
£5.00/£4.00 (c)
Tickets are available from Kanes records
or on the door
■ John Hegley
Saturday 13th June 7.30pm
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
John Hegley, a Site festival favourite and
a scandalously talented national treasure
with his funny, moving, musical & of
course, poetic performances. Comedy,
tragedy and more.
Over 7's welcome for much mirth, one
mandolin and some melancholy. No
hamsters. Includes communal dog
development, fig rolls of the imagination
and the tortoise enigma.
£8.00/£6.50 (c)
Tickets are available from Kanes records
or on the door
■ John Hegley and The Blessing
A special two gig ticket is available for an
exceptional mix of poetry and punk jazz
£12.50/£10.50 (c)
Tickets are available from Kanes records
or tel: 01453 751440
 John Hegley; The Blessing; Johnny Quiz; Jade Hamzelou
The Blessing
■ ■
Saturday 13th June 10pm
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
Punk-jazz in the Acoustic Ladyland vein
from musicians who have played with
Portishead, Super Furry Animals and Roni
Size. Their debut album 'All is Yes' won the
coveted BBC Jazz Album of the Year last
year and they went on to perform
triumphant sets at Glastonbury and the
Big Chill.
Mixing hard edged bass riffs, blasting
horns, electronic trickery with massive
drumming. An explosion of jazz from
musicians of inarguable rock pedigree, all
wrapped up in a rather unusual sense of
humour. Their amazing new album ‘Bugs in
the Amber’ has just been released and
available to buy at the festival.
'The grooves make your spine tingle'
Guardian
£8.00/£6.50 (c)
Tickets are available from Kanes records
or tel: 01453 751440
Jade Hamzelou
Thursday 11th June 8pm
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
Jade has a sublime collection of songs,
both written and peformed by her. She
feels the harp is so much more than a
lyrical instrument; using mediaeval
techniques with fingernails she transforms
the harp into a rhythmic and percussive
instrument. Jade started working with
Graeme Owen, on double bass which has
proved to be a very good match, both of
instruments and styles. Working with
double bass gives a strong groove to
the harp.
£3.50
Tickets are available on the door
■ Johnny Quiz
Thursday 18th June 8pm
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
Question one: "what do you get when you
mix a variety show with daytime TV and
get to fight with all the useless knowledge
you can muster?" With adult themes, hand
puppets, live music and homemade special
effects, Jonny Quiz and a host of
characters redefine the pub quiz.
£1.00
Tickets are available on the door
Roots Reggae and Dub night
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Saturday 20th June 9pm-3am
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
Real life weight sound system with DJ
presenters Jah Messengers from
Gloucester. Spiritual music with a reggae
and stepper dub warrior. Featuring djs:
Kulchalee Slector and Mic Chanter, Slector
Mighty BT and Ras head Slector and Mic
Chanter. £4.00 or £3.00 before 10pm
Tickets are available on the door entry
■ Disco Sucks
Saturday 27th June 9pm-3am
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace*
The Disco Sucks crew return, having
scoured the region's charity shops and
car boot sales for any records with
spaceships, muscular bearded men,
stonewash denim on the cover.
Uninhibited by notions of good taste,
they'll be playing disco, funk, early house
and other strange delights on the
legendary Black Box sound system.
Deejays on the night to include Tim
Telling, Stroud Disco Council and DJ Dino.
Heavy facial hair is optional but
encouraged.
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 The Cholmondeley Ladies circa 1600-10 Hut; Alias seminar art radio 2007 Vernon and Burns;
10 years of Alias
This year Alias celabrates it's 10 year
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aniversary and to mark this event it
is inviting artists to participate in a
series of programmed activities.
The Artist Led Initiative Advisory
Service is run by artists for artists.
Alias has worked with over 130 groups
from across the South West region during
the past 10 years. Groups advised by Alias
vary widely in the nature of their practice
and structure. The process by which a
group describes itself can help the group
to define achievable objectives.
Alias advisory service draws upon a pool
of knowledge and experience already
existing in the community of artists in the
South West. It is vital that Alias contacts
are also artists, as, whatever the needs of
a group are, the emphasis is always on the
development of a creative practice, in
terms of quality and integrity. Alias is
unique in providing a flexible, open-ended
and bespoke relationship lasting for
sustained lengths of time.
Alias contacts work with a group not
in order to achieve predetermined
outcomes, but so that they might enter
into a dialogue with other artists. This
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information and giving advice. opening up
the possibility of generating reciprocal
projects, promoting collaborations and
cross-fertilisation of artists practice across
the county and creating further
opportunities to network.
Alias seminars are at the heart of it's
activities providing opportunities for
networking and collaboration. The
programme of seminars is organised each
year by artists involved in the scheme in
direct response to the needs of artists.
There have been over 40 Alias seminars
which have taken place over the last 10
years across the South West region. Two
examples of these seminars are Creative
Footprints and Shed Summit.
SVA in Stroud, worked with many
artists groups to host some of these
events. Creative Footprints, which was
organised in 2008 in partnership with the
Last Gallery. With ecology increasingly
taking central stage in all areas of life this
seminar focussed on re-examining the arts
‘footprint'.The discussions outlined areas
of research and practice with speakers,
including Shelley Sacks from the Social
Sculpture Research Unit, providing artistic
and theoretical perspectives on this
burgeoning area of interest.
The 2003 Shed Summit, organised by
Annabel Other, took place at Welcombe
Barton, home of the Yarner Trust, a
medieval farmhouse in Devon. This three-
day event celebrated the shed in all its
forms with experts from the length and
breadth of the country and examples of
shed building from across the globe. There
was expert building advice for shed virgins
and the ribboned silver cup up for grabs
for shed excellence.
■ Alias Celebratory Events
w Alias 24 hour studio
19th June 8pm-20th June 8pm
24 hour studio is a an inclusive event,
intended to allow contributions from all
kinds of artists and groups whatever their
practice. 24 hour studio will take place in
various locations across the South West
region. The programme might include a
conventional gallery or studio space or it
might be a virtual space, a website,
fictional space, front room, bus stop,
potting shed or pub. The invitation to
contribute to 24 hour studio has been
extended to everyone who has worked
within Alias, as a collective celebration of
it's diversity and depth.
 ALIAS
Alias seminar 2003 Shed Summit Tommy Angel; Mothshadowmovie Louise Short; Mona Lisa Annabel Other; Alias Art Camp Westley Farm; 145Collectiveatwindows204 bristol
Alias Art Camp
■
Friday 26th - Sunday 28th June
■ Westley Farm Chalford GL6 8HP
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace,
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
To mark the 10 year aniversary of Alias a
celabration has been planned. Coordinated
by Annabel Other, Louise Short, Neil
Walker, SVA and Art Quercus,. The
residential weekend will take in a breadth
of activity including walks, interventions,
presentations and club nights. The art
camp will be based at Westley Farm, an 80
acre hill farm set in a rich tapestry of
green rolling hills in the Cotswolds and
classified as "an area of outstanding natural
beauty".
The weekend programme of activities is
split over two sites and kicks off with
an Art Quiz at SVA.
■ The Cabinet of Curosities Pub Quiz
Friday 26th June
■ Stroud Valleys Artspace,
Join us for the ultimate pub quiz! After the
tour of the contemporary pub quiz
compere Louis Short has devised a weird
and wonderful quiz especially for Alias.
This event is for everyone with an interest
in mystifying curios, kitsch artefacts,
improbable propositions, the scultural
object and the mechanics of an unknown
purpose. Teams should be a maximum of
eight people. Fantastic prizes. The evening
will be interdispersed with refreshment
1a and light musical entertainment.
■ ■informed by practice. This year we will be
■ Alias Art Camp
■ Saturday 27th June
■ Westley Farm
This days programme will include:
Culturalnental Breakfast
Art Quercus walk
Carrot Carving competition, judged by
resident donkeys Teddy and Chester
Tin can pinhole camera photo doc
Halcyon Cafe running buffet
Trial Pit Cinema movie house featuring
'reconstruction artwork'
Combovertoes Cocktail Bar
Practice and Reflection presentation and
group discussion.
Mothshadowmovie
Disco Sucks club night, SVA john Street
■ Practice and Reflection
Saturday 27th June
■ Westley Farm
The Alias practice and reflection seminar
series has been running since 2003. The
aim of the series has been to foster a
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supportive critical community of makers,
to develop a positive forum for
practitioners to engage with current
debates in the crafts and to explore ways
1a in which theory could be more closely
■building on the foundations laid by the
■series so far and expand the dialogue
■beyond the forum. With this aspiration in
mind practice and reflection will be
holding a pub discussion, with real ale, in
Hega's Hut, Westley Farm. Led by Russell
Martin, Helen Carnac
■ Culturalnental Breakfast
Sunday 28th June
■ Westley Farm
Continental breakfast, Sunday morning
artspeak and prize giving.
Price £15.00 per person includes
two nights camping and breakfast.
For more information on posh
camping and holiday cottages visit:
www.westleyfarm.co.uk
Booking essential as places are limited.
email: admin@aliasarts.org
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 Tray
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Tray Windows - 30/05/09 - 30/06/09

Shop window spaces around Stroud
10 Year Celebratory Events Shop - 10am - 6pm weekends
Festival Launch 30/05/09
Tray Event 13/06/09
SVA John Street project space
Alias Art Camp
Friday 26th - Sunday 28th June 07780503180 / 07779264269
at Westley Farm and Stroud Valleys Artspace, Stroud Gloucestershire
tray.art.tray@googlemail.com
A weekend of camping, art, culture, activities, debate, food and donkeys including:
www.jackgibbon.co.uk/tray
The Cabinet of Curosities Pub Quiz • Culturalnental Breakfast•Art Quercus walk•
Carrot Carving competition, judged by resident donkeys Teddy and Chester•Tin can pinhole Tray is an exhibition by a group of
camera photo doc•Halcyon Cafe running buffet•Trial Pit Cinema movie house featuring Southwest artists. All works
'reconstruction artwork'•Combovertoes Cocktail Bar•Practice and Reflection presentation incorporate a large wooden
and group discussion.•Mothshadowmovie•Disco Sucks club night•and more..., paper tray which came into the
Price £15.00 per person includes two nights camping and breakfast. Booking essential as artists’ hands as the result of a
places are limited. For booking and more information email: admin@aliasarts.org local business’ recent closure.

24 Hour Studio The function & aesthetic of the trays

have been changed by the artists
Friday 19th June 8pm to Saturday 20th June 8pm
& are now presented in empty
24 hour studio is a unique regional event in which all kinds of ar tists and groups will be shops in Stroud.
staging events, from the vir tual to the real, in all kinds of places in various locations across
the South West check out web site for details. The SVA John Street project space
will be used as a gallery/ shop
showing different ‘ready-made’ and
w w w. a l i a s a r t s . o r g alias is a platform built by ar tists for ar tists found object works. An event on
for the development of ar tist led groups in the South West of England
13/06/09 will also be hosted here.
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Horsley Woods, Paul Caffell

Thinking Landscape
Tuesday 23rd June,
2.00-5.30pm
Stroud Valleys Artspace
4 John Street, Stroud. GL5 2HA
t: 01453 824212
e: info@photostroud.co.uk

A half-day seminar to explore the contours

and boundaries of landscape, in advance
Judy McKenna
of a major, multi-disciplinary symposium
planned for Stroud in October.
Participants will draw on the thinking,
approaches and practices of local artists,
writers and arts groups to develop ideas
around an enduring genre that is setting new
agendas around space, place and identity. Atmosphere 2
A collaboration between PhotoStroud,
an exhibition of work reflecting
Stroud College in Gloucestershire and
SVA, the seminar builds on new projects our emotional response to the
in the Stroud Valleys and links with one light, weather and seasons
of the ‘Figuring Landscapes’ screenings
presented by Mezzanine (www.mezz.info)
as part of the site09 festival. The Space
£6/£4 (student concession) Lansdown, Stroud, GL5 1BN
including light refreshments
limited places, booking advisable. June 13 - 18 10 to 4.30
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 Kingshill Lane, Dursley
Gloucestershire, GL11 4BZ

01453 549133
admin@kingshillhouse.org.uk
www.kingshillhouse.org.uk
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BEE INSPIRED
The Global Bee Project
A new figure
has been created in Stroud
THE BEE GUARDIAN

Come along and discover how

you can make a difference to
the future of a disappearing
species upon whom we all depend

An empty shop will be

transformed
into a world of bees and flowers
Art & Craft Exhibition
Design your own bee house Showcasing
Become a bee guardian Kingshill House Artists p14

Help us gather all bee

inspired art 1st – 30th June
Monday – Friday
10am - 4pm wednesday to saturday 10am – 4pm
every week for the month of june*
Admission Free
4 Kendrick St, Stroud, Glos, GL5 1AA
Registered Charity No.1055651
Tel. 07915055818
generalsupport@theglobalbeeproject.com Kingshill House acknowledges
Website. www.theglobalbeeproject.com
the support of
*except saturday 20th June when
we will be Participating in
the art of westley farming
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Walking the Land are facilitators of landscape
events and exhibitions, organisers of creative
workshops, art courses and walks in the
Gloucestershire countryside.
t: 01452 812224 & 01453 756064
e: info@walkingtheland.org.uk
w: walkingtheland.org.uk
our ’site09’ events include:

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thinking of Trees...
Stratford Park, Stroud
20th June from 10:00-12:30 & 14:00-16:30
Join with Walking the Land artists to make art-
work that celebrates and responds to the trees
in our local landscape and greenspaces.
thinking of Food...
The Old Passage Inn, Arlingham
1st - 30th June. from 11:00 (closed Mondays)
t: 01452 740547
e: oldpassage@ukonline.co.uk
Walking the Land join with The Old Passage
to select works by painters, printmakers,
sculptors and photographers whose artwork
examines and celebrates the delight of food.
• Special Old Passsage ‘Artists’ menu available
River Severn ArtWalk
guided, creative walks with Walking the Land
6th, 13th & 27th June
These morning ‘ArtWalks’ of around 5 Km
along the magnificent River Severn start from
The Old Passage Inn. As you photograph and
sketch, our artists will offer creative guidance
about subject choice, technique and process.
£7:50 per person. Booking essential

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 CIDER WITH ROSIE
Rupert Aker
Preview evening
Friday 5 June 6.30 - 8.30pm

Saturday 6 - Sunday 7 June

10.30am - 5.00pm

Painswick Town Hall,

Victoria Square, Painswick
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This exhibition celebrates the 50th

anniversary of the publication of Laurie
Lee's childhood memoirs, Cider with Rosie.
The book, first published in 1959, remains
one of the 20th century's best-loved
autobiographies. Mainly working in oil with
palette knife, local artist Rupert Aker aims
to capture the places in and around the Slad
valley that are so vividly described in the
book - from Laurie's childhood home down
its steep bank to Painswick that 'sprawls
white in the other valley, like the skeleton of a
foundered mammoth'.
07702 097457
paintings@rupertaker.co.uk
www.rupertaker.co.uk
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SEE US PA I N S W I C K
group show
13th-21st JUNE 10am-5pm
art inside and out
9 PAINSWICK ARTISTS
PAINSWICK TOWN HALL

ADELE LAMBERT
ANDY LOVELL
ANGELA CASH
C L A I R E N AY E G O N
JANE GARBETT
JENNIFER SHONK

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JOANNE CASLING
opening night
Friday 12 June 5-7pm JOHANNES STEUCK
June 13 & 14, 20 & 21 MARK KELLAND
11am–6pm
PRINTMAKING/PAINTING
Springhill Cohousing (ABSTRACTION/LANDSCAPE)
Uplands Stroud S TA I N E D G L A S S / T E X T I L E S
GL5 1TN
01453 758731 t 07900 606234
www.springhillart.com www.artinpainswick.com
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30th May-14th June site09 Contemporary Drawing exhibition exhibition Ruskin Mill 12
31st May Daniel Padden and Sarah Kenchington performance SVA 1
30th May-30th June Tray exhibition SVA and shop windows 1
1st-30th June Open Studios exhibition exhibition Subscription Rooms 4
Seven exhibition Stroud House 7
The Seven Coats Project exhibition 33 High Street 8
Tray exhibition SVA and shop windows 1
Stroud College Arts Academy exhibition 1-2 Kings Street 3
Global Bee Project exhibition 4 Kendrick Street 9
Art and Craft exhibition exhibition Kingshill House 13
Special members exhibition exhibition Guild Gallery 15
Yola Quinn exhibition Kendrick Street Gallery 5
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1st-29th June Thinking...about Food exhibition Old Passage Inn 14

Tuesday 2nd June Figuring Landscapes film SVA 1
3rd-27th June The Clearing exhibition No.1 Middle Street 6
Saturday 6th June Site Festival Carnival performance Bank Gardens 10
In a Latin style performance SVA 1
6th-7th June Cider with Rosie exhibition Painswick Town Hall 16
6th-12th June Stroud College Arts Academy exhibition Stroud College 3
6th-30th June site09 darbyshire award exhibition Museum in the Park 2
Sunday 7th June In the Mind's Eye talk SVA 1
Tuesday 9th June Figuring Landscapes film SVA 1
Thursday 11th June Jade Hamzelou performance SVA 1
Friday 12th June The End film SVA 1
Saturday 13th June John Hegley performance SVA 1
The Blessing performance SVA 1
13th-14th June Open Studios open studios various locations *
Now You See Us exhibition Springhill Co-housing 11
Sketching in the Air exhibition SVA 1
Quercus: Beyond the Verge exhibition SVA 1
13th-18th June Atmosphere 2 exhibition The Space 10
13th-21st June Site Painswick exhibition Painswick Town Hall 16
13th-21st June Live and Dead Art exhibition Tower House 18
Tuesday 16th June Figuring Landscapes film SVA 1
Wednesday 17th June Joseph Beuys talk SVA 1
Thursday 18th June Johnny Quiz quiz SVA 1
Saturday 20th June Roots Reggae & Dub Night performance SVA 1
Thinking...about Trees workshop Stratford Park 2
20th-21st June Open Studios open studios various locations *
Now You See Us exhibition Springhill Co-housing 11
Sketching in the Air exhibition SVA 1
Quercus: Beyond the Verge exhibition SVA 1
The Art of Westley Farming exhibition Westley Farm 17
Tuesday 23rd June Thinking Landscapes talk SVA 1
Figuring Landscapes film SVA 1
24th-26th June Stroud College Arts Academy exhibition Stroud College 3
26th-27th June Alias Networking weekend event various locations 1
27th June-9th July Fifty small paintings exhibition The Space 10
26 Tuesday 30th June Figuring Landscapes film SVA 1

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site09
1s t - 3 0 t h j u n e
site09 festival artist’s open studios*
weekend one: 13th-14th june 11.00am - 6.00pm
weekend two: 20st-21st june 11.00am - 6.00pm

free guide artists studios are also open at other times in the week: please ring artists
s t ro u d v a l l ey s o p e n s t u d i o s d i rec to r y
weekend one: 1 3 t h - 1 4 t h j u n e weekend two: 2 0 t h - 2 1 s t j u n e directly to check individual opening times

* pick up the separate site09 open studios directory for further site festival information