Programme

wirksworth festival 2009visual arts performance architecture sculpture fi lm workshops drama comedy music dance craft poetry

11th - 26th September 2009www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk

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art & architecture trail

The Trail | 2

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Market Place

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Main Venue

Makers Market

Bus Stop

Town Hall

St Mary’s Church

Parish Rooms

Moot Hall

Willow Bath Mill Studios

Station

Memorial Hall & Gardens

Anthony GellSchool

St Teresa’s

Memorial

Station House

National Stone Centre

Coldwell St Wash Green

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Water Lane

Gorsey Bank

Oakerthorpe Road

Nan Gell’s Hill

Bolehill Road

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The Trail

FOOD & DRINK Le Mistral 23 Market Place Meals, coffee, wine, baguettes to eat in or take away

Peli Deli 2 St John’s Street Deli, coffee shop and gallery

The Bakehouse 5 St Mary’s Gate Pizza, sandwiches, cakes, tea and coffee to take out

The Blacks Head Pub 1 Market Place Real ales, pub food, cobs and outside bar

The Red Lion Pub Market Place B&B, beers and wines, beer garden

The Royal Oak Pub North End CAMRA recommended, real ales, cobs & a warm welcome

The Wheatsheaf Pub 67 St John’s Street B&B, beers and wines, pub food, 2 meals for £9, Sunday lunch £5

The Hope & Anchor Pub Market Place Beer festival, real ales and food

3 | Around the Town

www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk | Around the Town

Around the Town

The SHRUG Ladies Look out for this glamorous troop as they hit the streets of Wirksworth, engaging with all whom they meet. Will you stand and watch or will you come closer to join in this world of surreal glamour with an unnerving edge, the choice is yours!!! SHRUG Ladies are a Performance Company making Street Art, involving mime, improvisation and audience interaction. www.shrugladies.com

First MovementDrawn In Live projected drawing on, and in response to, live art performers. Spiral Performance Company are the performers. Caroline Bagnall is the lead artist. All takes place in the Level Mobile Studio - a studio on wheels specifically designed for projection and performance work by First Movement.Operating at intervals throughout the trail weekend at times to be arranged.

Wirksworth Windows New work specifically for shop windows throughout the town, illuminating and animating the streets through the day and into the evening. Hemingway & Anderson

Weston’s, St. John’s Street Andrew Brookfield

Top Ken’s Haze Burnham

Post Office David Booth

Ken’s Supermarket Jo Berry

Wirksworth Brewery Jenny Wilkinson

Cats Protection League Denise Stanton

Traidlinks Deborah Beesley

Wirksworth Fish Bar Keith Dorn

Marsden’s Lisa Donovan

Stones Sallyann Carlin

15 St. John’s Street Rachelle Mabboire

The DIY Shop (Summer Country Kitchen)

Music & PerformanceMain music stages around town: Memorial Gardens Library corner Market place Babington House The Stable Block

Look out for music and performance throughout the weekend.

Saturday 12thDale Diva 4:45pm, Anthony Gell school. £3 Beate Toyka 7:30pm, St Marys Church. £11 Comedy Night 9:00pm, Red Lion. £12

Sunday 13thClypping the Church 3:00pm, St Marys Church Jonathan Priestly & Derek Taylor 4:00pm, St Marys Church I Misti 4:30pm, 15 St Johns Street Courtyard Gig On The Roof 4:00pm till late, Market place Apollodorus Ensemble 7:30pm, St Marys Church. £11

Trail Guide and entry to all venues £4.00 under 16s free. Wear the badge!

Credits:Art and Architecture trail selection panel: Carol Maude, Veronica West, Andrew Dunlop, Jayne Falconer, Louise Dinning and David Gilbert. Makers market selection panel: John Wheeldon, Heather Lounds, Jenny Hoon and Stuart Hodgkinson.

The festival continues to showcase a selection of the finest designer makers in the region. This year we will be showing their work in the Memorial Hall and the Town Hall.

Makers’ Market

Peter Cosentino GC01234 567890

Sue Crossfield GC01234 567890

Paolo Cummins GC01234 567890

Clare Gage GC01234 567890

Mary Johnson

Heather Lawson TX01234 567890

Lucy Palmer JW01234 567890

Mark Smith GC01234 567890

Stolen Thunder JW01234 567890

Sara Taylor PP01234 567890

Becca Williams JW01234 567890

Deiniol Williams GC01234 567890

Karen Woods TX01234 567890

Memorial Hall 55

4 | Makers’ Market

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Town Hall | 5

Town Hall 13

Bruce Aitken OT01234 567890

Chris Ball CC01234 567890

R. Binner & R. Pleissnig TX01234 567890

Antonia Booker JW01234 567890

Joanna Bunbury CC01234 567890

Nicola Cheers TX01234 567890

Ella Doran TX01234 567890

Marge Elliott TX01234 567890

Ali French FW01234 567890

Anna French TX01234 567890

Wendy Johnson GC01234 567890

Rachel Lunn TX01234 567890

Anne Menary TX01234 567890

Roger Morgan TX01234 567890

Guy Routledge GC01234 567890

4 | Makers’ Market

6 | Main Galleries

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St. MARY’S CHURCH Ghislaine Howard –Stations of the Cross: The Captive Figure. A nationally acclaimed artist whose paintings deal with the human figure, charting and recording our shared human experience.

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PARISH ROOM Ben Cove – Trained in Fine Art and Architecture, his recent work deals with Modernist architecture, ranging through sculpture & painting to video installation.

NTU Decorative Arts Graduates - A stimulating selected exhibition from Decorative Arts graduates including millinery, glass, porcelain, ceramics, fabrics and wall coverings.

Ironwork - a selected metalwork show featuring Bethan Griffiths, Ian Moran, Dave Turner and David Tucker.

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HERITAGE CENTRE Kate Genever – Commissioned as part of re:place – site specific contemporary art in Derbyshire, Kate is creating a new body of work revealing and celebrating the unique homemade tools and technologies of Derbyshire farmers.

52 NEWBRIDGE WORKS Matthew Houlding will be exhibiting architectural models of imaginary Modernist Utopian buildings. Houlding was selected for The British Art Show 6 and has shown nationally and internationally. Courtesy of Ceri Hand Gallery.

Emerging new artists The best new work by Fine Art graduates from universities in the region, - Anwyl Cooper-Willis, Dave Mullany, Libby Pearce, Lorraine Ashley & Peter Stapleton.

Peter Hoon - A Retrospective The Wirksworth-based artist Peter Hoon, who died in March 2008, was a printmaker of outstanding skill and achievement. A popular and loved figure, Peter worked tirelessly for the Wirksworth community.

53 CARPET SHOP GALLERY Alec Finlay - dark peak | white peak | wordrawings Finlay will show work from his ongoing project word-mapping the Peak District, commissioned as part of re:place.

Maxine Hall – Maxine’s photographic images taken at last year’s Festival wittily depict local businesspeople, and fittingly will be shown in a shop in the town.

54 MARKET PLACE Charles Monkhouse - makes spectacular lightworks, and his Market Square Horizon installation consists of 360 lights fixed to buildings surrounding the square.

Martyn Blundell/Lorenzo Madge – spectacular Spatial Weaves video will be projected onto a gable end in Wirksworth Market Place, alternating with video work by Lorenzo Madge.

56 THE MEMORIAL GARDENS Nottingham based artist Raphael Daden works with light and his spectacular illuminated shed of lightworks will occupy the Memorial Gardens.

57 STONE CTR- FIELD BARN Michael Branthwaite’s installation is a radical Modernist intervention in a vernacular building – a field barn at the National Stone Centre. Attaching high gloss aluminium ducting, Branthwaite will restore the appearance of function to a previously functional building.

Main Galleries

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Red Pepper Pictures 14Ben Pollard PF01629 822453

10 & 75 The Dale 15Mary Wardle PP07734 214995

Suzannah Doxey GC01629 825718

78 The Dale 16Sara Craig PP01629 826972

51 Greenhill 17Paul Khosla FW01803 732989

48/49 Greenhill 18Sue Allanson SC01629 826446

Lyn Hodnett PP07854 808832

53 Greenhill 19John Hermansen GC01335 370161

Ewan Mathers PF07941 548214

40 Greenhill 20Rachel Grigor PP0115 9254529

78 Greenhill 21Evan Rutherford GC/SC07969 404935

Michael Stewart PP01335 360632

Church View 22Roger Allen PP07816 434949

Babington House 23Carol Mansell SC07936 193163

16a Greenhill 24Heather Dewick PP0114 3463053

8/9 Greenhill 25Wanda Brookes PP01629 825970

6 Greenhill 26Dermott Punnett PP01629 824945

1 Greenhill 27Derek Trowell AR01629 825491

????? 28Peter Cousins PP/SC/FW01629 822968

The Antique Shoppe 29Owen Cunningham SC01629 820077

Glenorchy Centre 30Louise Garland PP/SC07790 936383

Moot Hall 31David Booth PP/SC07813 674831

Silvia Champion IN0114 2966835

Denise Stanton SC/IN07950 594322

8 | Art & Architecture Trail

www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk | Trail Venues

9 Chapel Lane 32Philip Plumb PF01629 823288

23 Cromford Road 33Diane Gill PP01773 852355

Peter Gill PP01773 852355

12 Cromford Road 34Niall Young PP01332 609552

Scout Hut 35Alasdair Ambrose PP/SC01629 823426

33 North End 36Sharon Beardsley PF07761 610320

Hatfield Farm 37Graeme Reed PP07970 928352

Ian Talbot SC01283 562163

17 North End 38Anne Brooke-Smith TX01782 515942

30 North End 39Susan Botting GC01629 825938

Estelle Brightwell PP01332 590748

Sofie Dobbelaere PP0115 8412218

Jessica Smith PP0115 960

Julia Vaughan PP01629 825260

C of E Infant School 40

Children’s Art PP

Bruce Aitken FW01629 580622

Jacob Butler FW01629 822170

17 Coldwell Street 41Goh Ideta SC01629 823538

Wirksworth Library 42Mark Crowfoot PP01335 370494

Baptist Church 43Anne Bradley TX01629 823132

Diane Briggs TX/PP01629 822210

Alex Shimwell GC07985 553711

George House 44Val Carman PP01629 820256

Rectory Gardens 45Sara Machej SC07946 539545

9 | Trail Venues 12-13 September

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St Mary’s Church 1

Ghislaine Howard PP

Parish Room 2

Ben Cove IN

NTU Graduates TX

Ironwork SC

13 St. Mary’s Gate 3Jan Leybourne PF01629 760217

Mehodist Chapel 4Adam Jordan TX01455 292929

David Wadsworth GC07976 506739

61 St. John’s Street 5Katie Brooks JW01629 824601

Tanya Logan JW01179 298540

Country Kitchen 6Liz Salter PP01977 620198

Peter York PP0114 2580110

Waltham House 7Graham Pigott PP01433 639641

7 Hammonds Court 8Amy Chapman PP01509 557538

1 The Gate House 9Paul Smith SC01663 719100

Fosman’s Opticians 10Yoko Sekiguchi PP01773 748203

Heritage Centre 11

Kate Genever IN

Maurice Ingham TX01234 567890

Nicky Ward PP07775 876899

The Stables, Crown Yard 11aRoger Davies SC07799 641292

Buena Vista 12Martin Decent PP07900 127252

Charlie Downes PP0114 2016382

Town Hall 13

Makers Market

Key: PP Painting & Prints, GC Glass & Ceramics, PF Photography & Film, AR Architecture, MM Mixed Media, OT Other, FW Furniture & Wood, IN Installation, SC Sculpture, TX Textiles

Trail Venues 12-13 September

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Old Grammar School 46Helen Brown GC01234 567890

Brian Holland GC01909 724781

Sarah Millward PP01629 822344

The Stable Block 47Lewis Noble PP07949 269007

37 Coldwell Street 48Joanne Berry IN01629 540476

Richard Bett JW01522 537396

Tracey Keeping PP01629 826453

39 Coldwell Street 49Roger Davies SC07799 641292

Pat Shenstone PP01628 671613

5 Wirks. Hall Gardens 50Linda Taylor-Fry PP01629 822997

The Old Stable Block 51Deb Allitt PP07903 965090

Rick Barks PF01335 345187

Dan Marsh PP/SC/IN01629 826808

Newbridge Works 52

Matthew Houlding AR

Emerging Artists PP

Peter Hoon PP

Carpet Shop Gallery 53

Maxine Hall PF

Alec Finlay PP

Market Place 54

Charles Monkhouse IN

Martyn Blundell IN

Lorenzo Madge IN

Memorial Hall 55

Makers Market

Memorial Hall Gardens 56

Raphael Daden

Stone Ctr Field Barn 57

Michael Branthwaite