Priory Friendship – Sites in Sight

Friendship Gift Bags

Artist Residency

Sites in Sight is a community-based residency. The residencies are part of a wider programme of activity being delivered by The Art House, thanks to support from Wakefield Council’s Creative Partners Scheme.

The Art House, Wakefield has appointed two artists for its ‘Sites in Sight Artist in Residence’ opportunity. Karen Logan will be located in Warwick, Knottingley and Patrick Murphy in Priory, Featherstone. Each artist work with residents in these neighbourhoods in the development of their work, linking it to the theme of friendship. Delivered in conjunction with Wakefield District Housing, the two projects will launch with taster sessions on Monday 12 December.

Each artist will be taking on space within their neighbourhood, identified by Wakefield District Housing. They will work with communities through to explore friendship leading to the creation of new work.

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Today was my last community ‘activity’ workshop at the Hunswick Centre. The day was structured around making gifts for community members, the main activity was making and decorating cotton bags. These were then given to the community members for use in going to the shops etc, it provides another small reminder of my residency. The … Read more

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Friend Bracelets

More images of ‘gift’ bracelets made in recent workshops.

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Workshops 1 and 2

A busy period creating activities for my ‘drop in’ workshops at the Wentworth Road Centre. I have designed the workshops around the theme of gift giving, the main activity allows people to make their own clay tiles, these can be simple door number plaques or convey a personal message to a friend. Once designed the … Read more

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Friendship bracelet - made from text beads

Launch Day Workshops

Well today was a busy day. It was the launch of my Sights in Site residency at The Wentworth Road Centre in Featherstone. Since it is Christmas and I wanted to explore the theme of ‘friendship’ I wanted to get the local community making ‘GIFTS’ for each other and to give to friends and family. … Read more

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Launch Day Preparation!

A big part of ‘friendship’ seems to be giving, and what better way to provide a gesture of ‘friendship’ than sharing a cake and home baking! Below images show various stages of preparation. Working with colours that I have worked with for the past few years to create ice toppings for the buns. Hope we … Read more

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What is Friendship?

What is Friendship? I think this is a complicated question. As an artist I use colours, shapes, structures to convey emotions and ideas to the viewer. In my Sites in Sight residency I want to explore the meaning of ‘friendship’ with the Priory Community and also my own thoughts. To start with I typed ‘Friendship’ into … Read more

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