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Jo Leverett

Bill Jackson

12th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

“When the lights go out And the darkness surrounds you Open your eyes

to the Wonderment” 

Bill Jackson is a multi award winning photographer, filmmaker and sound artist. The concept of time is crucial to his ideas, exchanging the classic definition of photography as a series of instant glimpses of the world in which we live, to a personal definition of ‘space-time’. 

A conceptualist arts education in the early 70’s at Coventry School Of Art continues to inform my thinking and work practice. Drawing or mark making in its widest interpretation is integral to his work. The mark, either as an engineering drawing or a mathematical notation, is the beginning of the journey to new ideas.  

As a young art student, he was  influenced by Pollock’s approach to random mark making and the artist’s’ intervention in that process.  He creates stages for these interventions  to unfold; with the knowledge of these stages in daylight, the ‘performance’ is transformed by night. 

As a nocturnal photographer and filmmaker, he works with specially constructed drawing tools in the darkness of night to engage with natural elements including the sea and the wind to map out spaces and environments, tapping into the natural energies to trace and draw, and document unique, live, site specific performances. The reality of the captured image is fundamental to all his work, particularly with long exposure photography. 

In 1986 he transitioned from photography and ventured into cyberspace, initially experimenting with early digital formats, combining them with analogue photography. Through this period major electronic mapping works included ‘Iconoclast’ and ‘The Journey of The Skin Man’. These were later used to illustrate the current concerns about photography at a symposium at The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in 1991. 

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John Harrold

12th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

I don’t paint or draw but am a keen photographer and have dabbled in writing poetry.

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IBBAS, Call for exhibitors

7th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

For the exhibition of contemporary art responding to the work of Harry Becker, running August 13 to 16, 2021.

The ‘Inspired by Becker Art Society’ has run their annual exhibition since 2013, and once again will be returning to Holy Trinity Blythburgh this August. The theme for the main exhibition is “Freedom”. In addition, the Mike Holtom Award will be given for the best abstract interpretation of this theme.

Artists are invited to apply to exhibit up to 5 hung works via email or Direct Message on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages. Full details will then be supplied to your email address.

NB Artists who paid to exhibit in 2020 should just email us to confirm that you would like to enter work this year.

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An invitation, The Bank Eye

7th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

An invitation

Members of W&BA are invited to collaborate in creating an exhibition at The Bank  arts centre in Eye. The theme is Changing environment and it will run from mid-July for 4 to 6 weeks.

If you are interested in joining the collaboration and/or exhibiting, please contact me  on peterbrookeassoc@btconnect.com. The deadline for registering your interest is 23 April.

Peter Brooke

www.thebankeye.org

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Circle 67 Updates

7th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

At the beginning of March 2020 rehearsals for a spring production of Nell Gwynn were well underway for Circle 67, the Bramfield based drama group, but with news that the Coronavirus was spreading in the UK a decision was made to suspend rehearsals several weeks before the national lockdown started. However, as a very social group and keen to keep everyone together, group Chair, Steve Chadwick, took the first tentative steps of meeting via Zoom. What started out as around ten members meeting once a week to simply read through a play has a year later grown and transformed into a weekly “Lockdown Theatre” gathering of 40 to 50 members, friends and guests from all around the globe to enjoy a chat before a couple of rehearsed short plays are usually performed for everyone to enjoy. And as the expertise with Zoom has increased, sound effects, costumes, backdrops and spot-lighting have all been employed to create a more immersive experience for those watching. Most of the plays performed have been written/adapted by group members and friends especially for Zoom and it has been a wonderful way to keep everyone busy, engaged and socialising during such uncertain times.

If you would like to join Circle 67 online then they would be delighted to see you, it really is great fun. Please do contact them via their website or email info@circle67.co.uk and they will send you the link for Zoom. It is intended that the online meetings will continue until the end of April, after which it is hoped that rehearsals (via Zoom and in person when allowed) will start for their usual outdoor Shorter Shakespeare Summer Tour, which this year will be Much Ado About Nothing. This will hopefully tour local pub gardens during from Tuesday 27th July to Sunday 1st August.

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Lowestoft Museum, new development

7th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

Lowestoft Museum is a small independent organisation located in Oulton Broad. The museum houses an important collection of Lowestoft Porcelain alongside many other treasured artefacts which tell the story of the region’s rich heritage. The volunteer-led team welcomes community groups into the museum and has enjoyed working with several local arts and heritage groups including Common Ground, Dance East and Suffolk ArtLink.

The Lowestoft Team has been presented with an exciting possibility to expand into a vacant area within Broad House. The new space could be used to hold family activities, talks or craft classes and to accommodate education/community groups and temporary exhibitions. The museum would very much like to hear your thoughts on how you and your colleagues and friends might use the museum in the future. The survey will take around five minutes to complete and is anonymous. Thank you for your support. The link can be found here: Lowestoft Museum Community Learning Space Development

 

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Shields for Addenbrooke’s, Surinder Warboys

7th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

The shields were a gesture of thanks and a metaphor for the life risking work being done by others – in particular our National Health Service.

It was pointed out to me at the time the irony of using fragile glass for a shield. But these shields are shields of light. The light interacting with them has travelled ninety-three million miles and is continually being renewed. Due to certain properties in the ‘antique’ glass known as metal oxides, only the colour we see is transmitted, all the other colours are absorbed by the shield or that particular part of the shield. For example in the orange section, all the colours of the spectrum remain captured by that section except for the orange which is allowed to pass through and so we experience that section as orange.

It is the first time my work will be displayed in the open air.

On completion of the glass shields I happened to photograph them on Mellis Common, against the open sky and saw that the sky, clouds and landscape transformed and became integral to the work itself. So, it is serendipitous that they are now being displayed outdoors at Addenbrooke’s.

You can see more on Facebook

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New booklets for the forthcoming season from Poppyland

7th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

Another season is almost upon us and we’ve been working hard preparing new material for sale in 2021!

First off the blocks are two new additions, and a revision, to our popular short histories of regions, towns and villages in Norfolk and Suffolk. The following are all priced at £3.95 and available from our website before shops re-open.

Holt: Georgian Market Town, written by Peter Brooks, was first published in 1972 and revised over the years. This latest edition has been updated by Elizabeth Larby, the archivist at Gresham’s, and is an ideal buy.

King’s Lynn: A Port for 1000 Years, is a booklet we have intended to produce for years. We’re so pleased that Dr. Paul Richards, with his thorough knowledge of the town took this on. It’s a cracking addition to the series.

The Norfolk Coast: Living on the Edge adds to our new editions covering the regions of Norfolk (see Poppyland and Broadland). Written by well-known local historian, David Stannard, it provides a fascinating overview of the history of the coast and places for locals and visitors.

Get your copies today:

https://poppyland.co.uk/products/LATEST

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All of Them Witches

7th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

US publisher Visible Ink Press is to publish All of Them Witches, a new non-fiction book by Denton-based writer, editor and podcaster Charles Christian. All of Them Witches is an almanac of real witches and sorcerers, along with other practitioners of magic and witchcraft, from earliest times through until the present day, combining both a historical and thematic context, along with relevant biographical entries. Aleister Crowley, yes. Harry Potter, no. The deal was brokered by Christian’s agent, Virginia-based Lisa Hagan of Lisa Hagan Literary Agency and the book is due to be published in 2022.

Christian also has another book coming out later this year (2021) – a heavily delayed by lockdown guide to the Waveney Valley called Haunted Landscapes: The Waveney Valley – Folklore, Ghosts, History, Legends & Other Weirdness. Not just Black Shuck but plenty of Bigods, mistletoe brides, ancient ruins, ley-lines and ghostly airmen. The book is being published by the Heart of Albion Press.

 

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Looking Out

7th April 2021 By Jo Leverett

Looking Out April 2021 by Melinda Appleby

The Fattening of the Buds

Gradually as spring nears the trees change. I call it the ‘fattening of the buds’ when flowers
and leaves begin to swell and break from the winter skeletons and there is less sky between
the branches. With the sudden warm weather at the end of March it seemed as though the
pulse of the land was quickening. Shirt-buttons and goose-grass sent up their spirals of leaves
through the drying mud. Now cow parsley inches up visibly in the lane. Everywhere life is
returning and with it hope.
Chiffchaffs arrived on 19 th March, tentatively tuning up in the buffeted trees. Blackcaps
followed with a short song on 29 March but now all is busy and the song is building from
wood, garden and hedge. April is a month of firsts. Our summer migrants gradually arrive –
swallows, house martin, willow warbler, whitethroat and cuckoo. The first Brimstones have
brought a splash of yellow – like daffodils in flight. Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell are
warming up and even the bats are busy in the dusk, click-clicking along the hedge and over
the pond.

The long cold winter kept toads in hibernation so our toad patrol is still out as. Just before
March ended I sat by the village pond watching stars rise and mallard paddling in pink rippled water. It was the night of the Wolf Moon. By 8pm toads were emerging purposefully
from their day-time rest. I have read that toads co-ordinate their emergence during the waxing and full moon so they arrive at their courtship sites together. Now warm days echo with their squeaky song and the deeper call of frogs. But they are in decline. Our toad patrol regularly collected 600 in a night but this year we have only found around 140 since collecting began.

April brings with it such a bounty of song. The dunnock is the first up warbling its little trill
from the top of the hedge, then blackbirds join in and a faraway thrush. Even the chaffinch
cascades its song down from the cherry whose blossom is beginning to break.

The National Trust is hoping to catch people’s imagination with an emphasis on blossom this
spring. Taking inspiration from the Japanese celebrations (Hanami), the Trust has launched a
website for people to record their first sight of blossom. And blossom circles are being
planted to create green spaces in towns and provide uplifting sights and smells. The Trust
quotes Professor Richardson from Derby University who said that ‘spending a few moments
looking at and enjoying blossom can have a surprising impact on feelings of wellbeing.’

Blossom provides a lifeline for bees and butterflies as they emerge and we have had queen
bumblebees of several different species already out foraging – early bumblebee, buff-tailed
bumble bee and red tailed bumblebee like little drones humming into sight over early flowers:

Look, look, a bee, big as my thumb
see her work the lavender flowers,
a buzz so deep it’s your teddy bear’s
growl. She’s striped black and yellow
with her buff bottom. And here small
black bears, bees with red bottoms…
From Looking at Bees by Melinda Appleby

April is a month to look forward, to see detail as it changes daily, to take hope and creativity
from the arrival of colour and song in our environment. Perhaps one of the most loved and
joyful April poems sums it up: – Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning

Oh, to be in England
Now that April’s there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England – now!

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