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"Psychogeographic multi-media exploration of mythical green spaces through the child’s-eye-view of the Kitchen Table Photo Club. This is what you get when you let the youth run free in Nightingale Valley: counterfactual map-making, haunted analogue photos and tactile art, reeling with uninhibited joy and mischief…."
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A event on Friday 6th December. The event starts at 12:00.
Join Kitchen Table Photo Club from 5 – 13 December at the Pulp Room gallery in St Anne’s House to experience 378,432,000,000 Seconds of Exposure, a photo & art show by Kitchen Table Photo Club (KTPC).
We invite you to rest, play and spend time gawping at the poetic and thrilling photos, maps and art works created by the kids and adults of KTPC during their residency at Nightingale Valley, St Anne’s as part of Mayfest 2024. Discover how, through the art of playful exploration, these Earthlings cultivated a collective sense of being in an ancient, enduring, and transformative place. Witness a photography art show that is at once deeply local and powerfully mystical.
Nestled in the St Anne’s area of Bristol, Nightingale Valley is an urban woodland, a pilgrimage route, and an industrial outpost — one of the city’s most intriguing spots, just a stone’s throw from Bricks.
Wander through images filled with mirth and mystery, where the natural world, imagination, and the energy of young people merge to create whimsical shapes and stories. Delve into rich histories of the Nightingale Valley and keep your hands busy by contributing to a large-scale photographic collage. On Thursday 5th December from 7.30pm, experience the sounds of Hypnagogia for Holocene; a long-form lullaby of foraged sounds and poems from within Nightingale Woods, created and presented by t l k.
This is a tactile and inventive show that encourages you to pause and reflect, take inspiration, strike a pose, doodle on images, time-travel back to the Ice Age, leap into the future, walk in waters once touched by dinosaurs — or even kiss a leaf. When you’re ready, rest on it all and take it in. These are some of the gifts offered by the compelling Black & White images created by the generous minds of the KTPC gang.
Led by artist Esther May Campbell and a cohort of 11 young people, this specially commissioned project also features creative contributions from Adam Hynes, Jessica Hynes, t l k, Daniel Morden, Ashley Peever, and Chiz Williams, along with an array of photographers, academics, and helpers — all of whom merged with the land and emerged favourably altered.
If photography (especially the analogue kind) sparks your curiosity, you won’t want to miss this. If the epic potential of ‘PLAY’ calls to you, make the trip. If wild places, community clubs, ancient history, modern times, make-believe, memories, and mystery make you giddy, come down and witness 378,432,000,000 Seconds of Exposure.
Three hundred and seventy-eight billion, four hundred and thirty-two million seconds is an epic timeframe. KTPC were only in the valley for a month but this was enough time to get deep into all kinds of mischief of one kind or another.
Kitchen Table Photo Club
Set up to be an affordable, fun-to-run club, KTPC is a community art group. Artist, Esther May Campbell, founded it in her home, in Easton Bristol, around her kitchen table.
The club gathers people to mess around, look at books, fiddle with analogue cameras, take photos, exhibit work all the while fostering friendship, connection and play. KTPC explores what it’s like being an artist and creates images along its way.
KTPC travels and, when it does, it adapts. It sets up in different places, engaging KTPC members to help out and forge new connections.
About Esther May Campbell: https://esthermaycampbell.com/
Esther May Campbell is an award winning artist working with film and photography. She explores the links between image-making, story & play while creating compelling images and films for public transmission. Intrigued by the potential to co-create via play, myth, ritual and old analogue photography, images emerge that are moving and alarming.
Recent work includes a set of art/photo prompts called Bewilderment Cards, a photo-book made at St Paul's Adventure Playground called Scrapbook, and book Water Salad on Monday that documents Elm Tree Farm.
About MAYK: https://www.mayk.org.uk/
MAYK is one of the UK’s leading live performance producing organisations, with a mission to make important, unexpected, revelatory work with visionary artists that changes our experience of the world and each other. Led by Kate Yedigaroff and Matthew Austin, MAYK was established in 2011. MAYK curates and produces Mayfest – Bristol’s international festival of theatre, and are based at St Anne’s House in Brislington.
MAYK is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation
Credits:
In residence: Betty Birch, Cassian Booth, Mavis Bowly, Esther May Campbell, Leila Dimond, Florence Dewey, Maxwell Dewey, Rory Graham, Luca Jones, Amelia Mason, Finley O’Reilly, Bram Turner and Chiz Williams.
Artists, Helpers & Techs: Ben Gaster, Evie Hall, Jo Hellier, David Hopkinson, Adam Hynes, Jessica Hynes, Sinead Gulless, t l k, Rod Maclachlan, Daniel Morden, Ashley Peever, Adam Roe, Maria Meco Sanchez, Abigail Tinnion, Dot Williams and Joel Williams.
With thanks to: The Valley and Brook, Mayfest, Andy Coogan and Friends of Brislington Brook, Baggles and Eastwinds Activity Center, all the adults and children that helped get the KTPC to the valley.
Supported by Jack's Lab & Grainger Plc. Commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for The Glassworks.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
We invite you to rest, play and spend time gawping at the poetic and thrilling photos, maps and art works created by the kids and adults of KTPC during their residency at Nightingale Valley, St Anne’s as part of Mayfest 2024. Discover how, through the art of playful exploration, these Earthlings cultivated a collective sense of being in an ancient, enduring, and transformative place. Witness a photography art show that is at once deeply local and powerfully mystical.
Nestled in the St Anne’s area of Bristol, Nightingale Valley is an urban woodland, a pilgrimage route, and an industrial outpost — one of the city’s most intriguing spots, just a stone’s throw from Bricks.
Wander through images filled with mirth and mystery, where the natural world, imagination, and the energy of young people merge to create whimsical shapes and stories. Delve into rich histories of the Nightingale Valley and keep your hands busy by contributing to a large-scale photographic collage. On Thursday 5th December from 7.30pm, experience the sounds of Hypnagogia for Holocene; a long-form lullaby of foraged sounds and poems from within Nightingale Woods, created and presented by t l k.
This is a tactile and inventive show that encourages you to pause and reflect, take inspiration, strike a pose, doodle on images, time-travel back to the Ice Age, leap into the future, walk in waters once touched by dinosaurs — or even kiss a leaf. When you’re ready, rest on it all and take it in. These are some of the gifts offered by the compelling Black & White images created by the generous minds of the KTPC gang.
Led by artist Esther May Campbell and a cohort of 11 young people, this specially commissioned project also features creative contributions from Adam Hynes, Jessica Hynes, t l k, Daniel Morden, Ashley Peever, and Chiz Williams, along with an array of photographers, academics, and helpers — all of whom merged with the land and emerged favourably altered.
If photography (especially the analogue kind) sparks your curiosity, you won’t want to miss this. If the epic potential of ‘PLAY’ calls to you, make the trip. If wild places, community clubs, ancient history, modern times, make-believe, memories, and mystery make you giddy, come down and witness 378,432,000,000 Seconds of Exposure.
Three hundred and seventy-eight billion, four hundred and thirty-two million seconds is an epic timeframe. KTPC were only in the valley for a month but this was enough time to get deep into all kinds of mischief of one kind or another.
Kitchen Table Photo Club
Set up to be an affordable, fun-to-run club, KTPC is a community art group. Artist, Esther May Campbell, founded it in her home, in Easton Bristol, around her kitchen table.
The club gathers people to mess around, look at books, fiddle with analogue cameras, take photos, exhibit work all the while fostering friendship, connection and play. KTPC explores what it’s like being an artist and creates images along its way.
KTPC travels and, when it does, it adapts. It sets up in different places, engaging KTPC members to help out and forge new connections.
About Esther May Campbell: https://esthermaycampbell.com/
Esther May Campbell is an award winning artist working with film and photography. She explores the links between image-making, story & play while creating compelling images and films for public transmission. Intrigued by the potential to co-create via play, myth, ritual and old analogue photography, images emerge that are moving and alarming.
Recent work includes a set of art/photo prompts called Bewilderment Cards, a photo-book made at St Paul's Adventure Playground called Scrapbook, and book Water Salad on Monday that documents Elm Tree Farm.
About MAYK: https://www.mayk.org.uk/
MAYK is one of the UK’s leading live performance producing organisations, with a mission to make important, unexpected, revelatory work with visionary artists that changes our experience of the world and each other. Led by Kate Yedigaroff and Matthew Austin, MAYK was established in 2011. MAYK curates and produces Mayfest – Bristol’s international festival of theatre, and are based at St Anne’s House in Brislington.
MAYK is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation
Credits:
In residence: Betty Birch, Cassian Booth, Mavis Bowly, Esther May Campbell, Leila Dimond, Florence Dewey, Maxwell Dewey, Rory Graham, Luca Jones, Amelia Mason, Finley O’Reilly, Bram Turner and Chiz Williams.
Artists, Helpers & Techs: Ben Gaster, Evie Hall, Jo Hellier, David Hopkinson, Adam Hynes, Jessica Hynes, Sinead Gulless, t l k, Rod Maclachlan, Daniel Morden, Ashley Peever, Adam Roe, Maria Meco Sanchez, Abigail Tinnion, Dot Williams and Joel Williams.
With thanks to: The Valley and Brook, Mayfest, Andy Coogan and Friends of Brislington Brook, Baggles and Eastwinds Activity Center, all the adults and children that helped get the KTPC to the valley.
Supported by Jack's Lab & Grainger Plc. Commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for The Glassworks.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions