Fairies, lanterns, young visions and getting it out!

fairies

I think I've spent too much time with the fairies. My feet haven't touched the ground! 
Last Autumn saw the culmination of the Fairy Path Project, commissioned by Shipping Brow Gallery, funded by Maryport Town Council. Artist, Jim Osborne and I worked across 7 schools in Maryport, revisiting the memoirs of local person Doris Riley, and her collection of stories and myths of the area. After the children had visited the legendary path, they worked on their responses to everything they had discovered. We hung the result down the path to re-animate it. I liked the final effect - little accents of colour dotted down the path, weird and wonderful faces and mobiles coming into view from each side.

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