Haeream
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Experience the magic of this transitional installation
TAKING PLACE
20th/21st May 2021
Liquorice Park
Lincoln LN1 1LE
What is "Haeream?"
The importance of this word upon our work is immense as it embodies our ideas and hopes for the project. It gives the magical perspective on ordinary things, for who could be more enchanted by the world than us artists? We will use this word to inspire the artwork we produce and hope it lives within our project as we breathe life into the myths and folklores that surround this historic town. Haeream (pronounced Ha-ream) is the name of our project; full of fairy magic, zodiac power, mysterious imps, glowing vegetation and mystical lights, and we will infuse it’s power of enchantment into our work and we hope into the lives of those who view it.
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Meet our Artist's
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Emily Birch
I am a mixed media artist with the majority of my works being paintings and pencil tones. I also do small works in sculpting and some in crochet. My traditional choices of expression are due to my enjoyment of creating realism art, though my sketchbook is no stranger to experimentation. With a fondness of nature and people in my art, it is not surprising that most of my works are either portraits or natural landscapes. Despite this, I am very open to the new perspectives that alternative practices can give me. Often, I make pieces because of their meaning to me. I look to the things around me for inspiration and it is quite easy, in my opinion, to find them. You need only see the world in wonder. I believe that the different perspectives and experiences through working this way gives me the opportunity to constantly find out more about myself as an artist, my practice and the world around me. I consider myself as always learning, and by doing that I can adapt my works better to the meanings I want them to have. I even sometimes find they can help me understand things differently through not being how I expected them to be or through the opinion of someone else entirely. I find the awe of ordinary things a wonderful place to start and with that I am able to find meanings to my works and this, I think, is what brings them to life
Thai Atkin
I am a surrealist artist that plans to use reflective surfaces, lights and a magical portal. I want to create a piece that is transformative and looks like the entrance to the magical forest. I have created a centre piece that took inspiration from the stop motion film Coraline and also Doctor Who. Using lights and reflective surfaces I want to create a magical atmosphere that captures the views attention. I like the idea of this portal as it leaves so much up to the imagination and leaves a question of "what is on the other side?" lingering in the air.
This multi media piece is designed to be shown at night to get the full affect which is why our exhibition closes at 8:30pm, the darker it becomes the better it looks.
I really enjoyed stepping outside my comfort zone and experimenting with lights and reflections as this is something I've never done before.
It was really important to be that I didn't take anything away from the site and only added too it, its such a beautiful place I also didn't want to create anything that would scare the wild life away. Hopefully my piece highlights the natural beauty of the park.
Holly Louise Pettinger
As an artist I work with many different materials and medias. With many of my artworks and installations, I am always trying something new. Being out of my comfort zone and experimenting with new medias and styles continues to keep the fire lit within me for fine art. At the beginning I worked with pencil and graphite, sketching out portraits of people that were important to me. Then my love for photography grew throughout college, I spent my days there cutting up photographs and mixing the segments up into a new piece. I was also using other materials with my photographs including acrylic paint and different types of tape. My style is constantly changing and evolving. Maybe one day I will stick to one style, but I also never want my love for art to die.
For these two pieces I have stepped into the world of Witches, Wicca and Witchcraft. I have researched into the five elements and the five points of the pentacle. With our chosen site being a park, I wanted to focus one of the elements being the earth element. I also researched into the spirit element, and also into symbols and crystals surrounding Wicca and Witchcraft. To relate back to the site I also made sure that most of the materials used for these sculptures/pieces were natural or from the site itself. The symbols and crystals used are here to protect the park and also the people that walk through it.
Sasha Pullin
I’m a multimedia artist from Herefordshire. I have been sketching and painting for many years and have more recently been experimenting with sculpture and abstraction. I am hugely inspired by humans and their relationships with themselves, others and this earth.
A lot of my work looks at identity and mental health, with elements of surrealism and use of bold colour. My art is a projection of my own life experiences and thoughts combined with matters that affect all of society from feminism to capitalism, as examples.
In time, I hope to broaden my skills and confidence in my art, and whether it’s something to question or simply enjoy, I aim to create work that will promote a change in my audience.
I will be creating a series of goblin sculptures with inspiration from the Lincoln Imp as well as from films such as Labyrinth (1986) and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). I hope to use clay for the foundation of my sculptures, with moss and wire to add individual character; creating beards, hair and piercings. I plan to create a small family of goblins which I will position in amongst the trees of Liquorice park, for passersby to discover and enjoy.
Mary James
I am an artist that is heavily influence by multisensory art, the ability to communicate on a non-verbal level, a universal langue, drives me and my artwork. I’m inspired by the concept sensorium, as it’s a personal interest that I enjoy trying to incorporate into my ideas and outcomes, it fascinating the way every individual interprets everything differently, depending on their own social interactions. I draw on nature’s wonder and beauty to create, as there is still so much that we don’t fully understand, I like my work to echoing the significate and importance of this. I work with a wide variety of materials from the conventional ceramic, wood, paint to the more exciting natural elements and living organism. I have an experimental attitude with my processes and methods which I find could possibly never ending. My artwork for this current exhibition in a site-specific situation, will consist of natural living organism and echo the theme wonder and enchantment as a collaborate theme. I will create several hanging glass and plastic orbs that will be placed in liquorice Park on the trees near paths, so that the audience will be able to touch and interact with them, showing their full wonder after dust. And sparking people’s curiosity about how this nature reserve is important to the local community and the beautiful plants animal within. I’ll be using compost, moss, ghost oyster mushrooms and bioluminescent algae to create the hanging orbs.
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