foreground.org.uk: website for artist Richard Tomlinson


2011 projects


A partnership project between: Reveal, SPAEDA, Somerset Film and IAC (Ilminster Arts Centre)
 
This project was designed to encourage community engagement with their local arts centre through the provision of fun and creative workshops.
Participants were given an opportunity to work alongside a professional visual artist to create tangible artworks using a range of materials. A filmmaker also worked with participants to create a short documentary film.
Participants worked to the general theme: ‘experiments with light’. Families worked together to create sun prints, light scribbles and lanterns. Initially participants approached the theme in a very literal way, however, over the course of the project they became evermore experimental and adventurous with their ideas. Project participants also developed creative confidence in their filmmaking. What started as a simple exercise in camera techniques developed into experiments with lens distortion, unusual composition, colour and atmosphere.
" Fantastic, creative and calming atmosphere"
 
 
parent
"I learnt that children don’t have to be the same age as you to be a friend"
 
 
participant
"Kindness and creativity are alive and kicking here"
 
 
volunteer

 

© 2012 foreground/Richard Tomlinson

Richard Tomlinson is Associate Artist with Take Art Ltd, a Somerset based Arts Development Agency