Hove Museum - a place that inspires us to make art and stories...

...an ideal opportunity for Fabula!

In case you didn't see our first post - thanks to The Royal Pavilion & Museums this is where we are having our residency and producing work towards a family friendly exhibition and events to be held at the museum in December - we will be posting regularly about it all here.

Next Monday 18th July we will be at the museum again - we are a very friendly bunch and we'd love for you to come and talk to us and see what we are doing.

Here is a taster of what happened last time Fabula artists met to 'make' together at the Museum. 

This is Richard Clarke's work - these are explorations of ideas for a landscape towards a collaborative piece we are all working on. Richard Clarke is a multi-award winning Filmmaker and Designer. His works are considered to be a humorous and magical exploration of the human psyche. 

Here you can see the materials that Dagmara Rudkin has bought to the museum to work from. Dagmara's usual practice crosses the boundaries of Fine Art, Design and Craft. In her recently completed MA she used animations, paintings, illustrations and puppetry performance to tell a cautionary tale for children.

 

Katie Perret is working out some ideas here.  Katie is a photographer who uses analogue photography and her work is concerned with the quiet act of looking and perceiving.

Each artist uses their preferred working method - drawing, writing, photographs, prints or constructing maquettes to build upon their ideas towards finished pieces. 

Here you can see that we are using photographs that we have taken of artefacts from the museum's permanent collection to work from for inspiration. Louise Wishart is using her sketch book to develop her ideas. Lou uses a mixture of watercolour and dyes alongside hand printed tissue papers that she makes herself. She then scans them and manipulates them in Photoshop. Lou's work is concerned with capturing the interesting, everyday, quirky bits of ordinary life.  She is planning to illustrate the museums permanent collection in a short book to be exhibited in the December exhibition - we're looking forward to seeing that!

Dagmara uses delicate tissue paper here in her working process.

If you'd like more information about Fabula artists (we are a big group!) please go to  www.fabulacollective.com

It's very special to have the support of the local museums because, although we have many overseas members, we are a Brighton-based art collective, formed here in 2014. Having the time and space to work at Hove Museum, surrounded by so much to capture our imaginations is very timely for us as a collective.

We're excited by the chance to connect with the local public through the residency so do come and see us next Monday 18th July -  or on on selected Mondays (check this blog)  until December.

SILENCE - illustrated word by Juliette Rajak

Juliette has made this sensitive drawing of a sleeping child to illustrate SILENCE. She enjoys creating new ideas for narratives and likes to work with traditional processes, such as etching and aquatint, mixing them with collage and other media. www.julietterajak.com

A little look back - Fabula at Phoenix Gallery - exhibition wins an award

In May and June we were pleased to exhibit at The Phoenix Gallery in Brighton as part of the 'Press & Release 2016' bookarts exhibition. We were thrilled to hear that the exhibition, curated by Maddy Rosenberg and designed by Curious Space, was the
winner of the Brighton Fringe Visual Arts Award 2016. We'd like to thank Phoenix Gallery for inviting us to be part of this exciting exhibition and congratulate them on winning the award.

The north gallery had an amazing exhibition of international book artists curated by Maddy Rosenberg.  The work was displayed impressively on structures designed by Curious Space and built by Ben Thomson.

Our work was exhibited with Sussex Bookarts Collective in the South Gallery in a display called 'Stories about Stories' - definitely what we're about! Also we took part in the table top book event 'Connect and Collect' and Fabula members Vanessa Marr and Pip Carter ran a workshop making handmade books.

Photos below show a cabinet of examples of our work that gave a flavour of Fabula.  The cabinet contained picture books, small models and books made to show working process, single images in sequence, narrative textiles, handmade books and short stories. There was also a chance to see films made by the five film makers in Fabula who also had their films on show throughout the exhibition.

The images below show the workshop led by Vanessa Marr and Pip Carter and some examples of books made.  This was part of the 'Connect and Collect' event. It was a lively but relaxed space where members of the public had a chance to have a go at making handmade books.

We were part of a tabletop exhibition during the 'Connect and Collect' event and all of our books were on display.

Looking forward to the next exhibition, coming soon - watch this space!
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Fabula in Residency!

Here's some great news! - thanks to The Royal Pavilion & Museums we are having a Residency at Hove Museum and we started this week!

We will now be at Hove Museum on a regular basis in preparation for an exhibition at the museum in December. Fabula artists Dagmara Rudkin, Juliette Rajak and Katie Perret got stuck in straight away finding inspiration from the museum's collection of toys.

We are very excited to have this fantastic opportunity. On certain Mondays, up until the start of the exhibition in December, we will be creating work for the show - working on a collaborative project as well as our own individual work.  We'll let you know when we'll be there as we go along and we hope you'll come down and see what we're up to. We'll also tell you more about the residency and the forthcoming exhibition here over the next few months.  All we can say for now is  - there will be lots of variety, it will be story-based, we will be producing work influenced by the museum's collection and there will be something for the whole family to enjoy.

 

SILENCE - illustrated with analogue photography

Katie Perret has made this beautiful response to the word SILENCE using analogue photography. Fundamentally her work is about the quiet act of looking and perceiving, observing the usually unobserved spaces and capturing the light of this space on the negative and weaving these images together to form narratives. More of Katie's work can be seen at www.fabulacollective.com and at our our next exhibition in December - details to be announced soon!

SILENCE - the new word!

Here's Clara Weifu's illustration for SILENCE. See more of her work at www.claraweifu.com

We really like Clara's drawing style which worked brilliantly for her MA project. It's a story about a traveller who falls asleep and the dreams that he has - you can see this on her website too.

Paper cut outs and shadows

Carrying on with our illustrated words - this is Penelope Chongs response to the word REPEAT.

See more of Penelope's work at www.fabulacollective.com