In 2010-11 we ran a large-scale gallery-based exhibition project taking inspiration from the Cambrian Railway in Oswestry. We called this project The Way.
We began in the autumn 2010 with sketching days in the Cambrian Railway yard in Oswestry and brainstorming sessions in Studio A1 in the Cambrian Studios Building. As the year progressed, we continued to share ideas and plans, collaborating and working together on several pieces. In July 2011 thirty Inside Out artists exhibited in: Studio A1, Oswestry Library, Oswestry Heritage Gallery, The Dunbabin Gallery at The Willow Gallery, and St. Oswald’s Church. It was the largest single exhibition event in Oswestry this year, and Inside Out’s largest exhibition event since our outdoor exhibition in Llanarmon D.C. in 2009.
Artists working in every media – traditional, non-traditional, 2/3D, sound, vision, installation, painting, sculpture, drawing, illustration – took part in the project. The focus was on themes connected with the railway and its wider impact/importance – transport, travel, heritage, landscape, history, change, movement, etc. Work ranged from representational to abstract, across all points in between.
…next project: 2011 – Art Works >
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Hi John and Diana,
I’d be really interested in taking part in The Way – things connected with sites and movement get me quite excited! I’ve just seen Diana’s email about the meet this Weds too. See you then,
Tracy
Hi Tracy
We look forward to seeing you whenever you can make it.
John is there this coming Weds (29th) 10.0-4.0 and I shall get there midday ish.
We had a great time last week – lots of artists, great photographs – and the project seems just the right thing to do – within a year the work to get the railway up and running again will mean lots of this lovely old rusty mechanical stuff could well have disappeared. Have managed to secure several exhibition venues for next summer. Speak soon. Diana
Hi Diana,
Andrew Tullow told me about you and your group after a recent OS21 meeting. I’m Steve Haworth and I have been working with the Footfall group in town. You may have se3en some of our shop window decorations to hopefully improve the look of the town until the shops are sold on.
We are working on another project to get large murals painted on walls or bricked up windows in the town to brighten it up as both a tourist attraction and to make it look better for local people using the town centre.
Currently we have an artist who has designed a picture (a CHR train pulling carriages – by total coincidence) for the wall of Home Bargains opposite the Wilkinsons entrance. However, we hope this will be just one of many similar murals in and around town in the future. Would you and your group be interested in this medium? – Can we meet and discuss? Steve
Hi John & Diana
I was at the last meeting of the chambers and must say that I’m thilled of the events that you are encouraging! I have opened a Local art & craft shop above Earthlink in Oswestry (Leg street)
generating the interest & advertising has been very hardwork – not alot of people know that the shop exists! I know it’s early days for me yet! I am very interested in project, also one of the artists that displays his water paintings Mr.Edwin Lambert is very much an expert in that field of locomotives and would really like more of how?when?
Many Thanks !
Shelly