Fiona Campbell, Community work
Possessions I
2019
Collaborative adult community group working alongside Fiona Campbell
Recycled materials and objects
Fiona Campbell engaged 2 local adult community groups in collaborative making and the resulting artworks were exhibited in a cell as part of B-Wing.
Participants contributed materials and objects that were no longer wanted, but once held value. These possessions were transformed through a process of binding, wrapping and weaving, focussing on themes of identity, bodies, bound up, incarceration, marking time, time as value. Working together at The Art Bank, participants valued the experience, and through the social activity ‘conversations became the threads that made our connections.’ Rachel Leach.
Participants involved: Rachel Leach, Gill Oldaker, Myrna Mitchell, Shelley & Sam Catley, Liz Spurgeon, Dawn & Callum Handy, Sue Green, Val Sherring, Lucy Smith
2019
Collaborative adult community group working alongside Fiona Campbell
Recycled materials and objects
Fiona Campbell engaged 2 local adult community groups in collaborative making and the resulting artworks were exhibited in a cell as part of B-Wing.
Participants contributed materials and objects that were no longer wanted, but once held value. These possessions were transformed through a process of binding, wrapping and weaving, focussing on themes of identity, bodies, bound up, incarceration, marking time, time as value. Working together at The Art Bank, participants valued the experience, and through the social activity ‘conversations became the threads that made our connections.’ Rachel Leach.
Participants involved: Rachel Leach, Gill Oldaker, Myrna Mitchell, Shelley & Sam Catley, Liz Spurgeon, Dawn & Callum Handy, Sue Green, Val Sherring, Lucy Smith
Possessions II
2019
Collaborative work by year 10s from Whitstone School & Home Educated children, led by Fiona Campbell and Luminara Star
Recycled and found materials
Fiona Campbell and Luminara Star engaged young people in free workshops making small hand-sized artworks, to be featured as part of the B-Wing exhibition. Based around the theme ‘Possessions’, Year 10s from Whitstone School and local Home Ed families worked with Fiona and Luminara, focussing on identity, marking time, time as value, bound, binding. The use of recycled materials made them ‘think more about everyday objects’, which they found ‘inspiring and surprising’.
The objects mimic ‘precious’ objects created by prisoners as currency to trade, as a way to mark time and re-create a sense of identity.
'The number of hours an inmate takes to make an artwork contributes to its value... the greater the number of hours the more valuable... objects of love, affection and power… Artists who work from found objects are considered most creative… most art will fit comfortably in one’s hand’. Tom Skelly, On the Yard
Family Sculpture Workshop
Fiona ran a family sculpture workshop as part of Somerset Art Weeks Festival’s Family Friendly weekend. B Wing was transformed for a morning into a hive of activity. Families spilled out into the main atrium of the prison wing, working together on abstract sculptures made from recycled materials.
Lovely comments from participants include:
“I’ve never mixed materials with wire before - I love doing it”.. “loved the freedom to explore creatively and spend time with my son”.. “I really enjoyed it but if there was one thing I would change it would be the heating” (Marley, age 6)
Fiona ran a family sculpture workshop as part of Somerset Art Weeks Festival’s Family Friendly weekend. B Wing was transformed for a morning into a hive of activity. Families spilled out into the main atrium of the prison wing, working together on abstract sculptures made from recycled materials.
Lovely comments from participants include:
“I’ve never mixed materials with wire before - I love doing it”.. “loved the freedom to explore creatively and spend time with my son”.. “I really enjoyed it but if there was one thing I would change it would be the heating” (Marley, age 6)
Youth Group Tours and Workshops
Fiona led youth groups in workshops and artist tours
Strode College Art Students
Young Theatre Group visit