Art from people’s garments – GET INVOLVED!

March 12, 2015 joy

FREE participatory workshop

Date: Monday 27th April 10am – 13:00pm and 14:00 – 17:00pm Where: Lace Market Gallery, 25 Stoney Street, Nottingham, NG1 1LP

Artist Joy Pitts turns thousands of unwanted clothing labels into works of art and is inviting 450 participants to stitch a label for inclusion in her next creation. The completed labels will be used for the background of a portrait that will be unveiled later in the year. Joy Pitts, a multiple award-winning contemporary artist is offering this rare opportunity to be involved in her work as part of the BBC Get Creative Campaign. Drop into The Lace Market Gallery for ten minutes to participate and become part of this significant artwork.

All materials provided.

Joy Pitts Exhibition, ‘30,000 Used labels’ will take place at Lace Market Gallery from 23rd April until 13 May 2015.

This event is being organised by Lace Market Gallery and Joy Pitts, as part of BBC Get Creative. This event has not been organised directly by the BBC.

Get Creative is a major celebration of the nation's arts, culture and creativity. Led by BBC ARTS and What Next? in collaboration with a huge range of arts, cultural and voluntary organisations, everyone is invited to get involved and share their creative talents.

Visit bbc.co.uk/getcreative to find out more.

BBC Radio Nottingham 23rd Feb 2015

February 20, 2015 joy

Follow this LINK to hear Joy Pitts chatting live to Verity Cowley on BBC Radio Nottingham on Mon 23 Feb 2015 about creating contemporary art from people and their garments.

Article Nottingham Evening Post January 2015

February 4, 2015 joy

Follow this link Military Boots at Bromley House Library

Follow me on Twitter @JoyPitts11

Solo Exhibition - Lace Market Gallery Nottingham

February 4, 2015 joy

Please join me for the private view Thursday 23 April 2015 from 5:00 - 7:00. Exhibition runs from 24th April - 14 May 2015 (closed at the weekends).

Please note the gallery is open Monday to Friday 10am - 4pm.

Direction note: Lace Market Gallery is in Hockley, 25 Stoney Street, Nottingham. It is on the same Street as The Old Angel Inn (7 Stoney Street). There is an NCP car park directly opposite the Gallery LINK TO NCP CAR PARK.

Lace Market Gallery
25 Stoney Street
The Lace Market
Nottingham
NG1 1LP

gallery@ncn.ac.uk
0115 838 0672
Open Monday to Friday 10am - 4pm
Term time only

Military Boots at Bromley House Library

January 24, 2015 joy

The exhibition at Bromley House Library was a huge success and by wednesday the remaining 20 blue name tapes had been given out. A big thank you to all the visitors, future updates about the project will be posted soon. Read Nottingham Evening Post article HERE.

Military Boots - Nottingham Evening Post Article

January 19, 2015 joy

Click HERE to read The Nottingham Evening Post article about Military Boots at Bromley House Library week commencing Monday 19th January 2015. Visit Military Boots project at The Centre for Hidden Histories website HERE if you wish to leave a comment about the project or include any details about your family history.

Visit Bromley House Library website HERE

Military Boots - Exhibition of work in progress

January 2, 2015 joy

Military Boots will be available to view as a work in progress on the GROUND FLOOR in the Gallery at Bromley House Library, Nottingham on the following dates:- Monday January 19th 2015, 10.30 - 4.00

Tuesday January 20th 2015, 10.30 - 4.00

Wednesday January 21st 2015, 10.30 - 4.00

Friday January 23rd 2015, 10.30 - 4.00

Saturday January 24th 2015, 9.30 - 12.30

Bromley House Gallery is housed in the imposing entrance hall of the Library on Angel Row, Nottingham, NG1 6HL. The single door entrance is four doors up from the Bell Inn and is between Barnardo's and Nottingham Post Newsagents. See photograph.

Bromley House Library are one of the partner organisations with TRENT-TO-TRENCHES. Their WWI commemorative exhibition has been made possible by the generosity and enthusiasm of the library’s members, who have offered to loan their precious photographs and mementos, and to tell the ‘stories’ behind their families’ experience of the Great War.

I look forward to seeing you at the Library on any of the above dates and times. I will be inviting members of Bromley House Library to participate in the project if previously issued name tapes have not been returned.

Visit Bromley House Library WEBSITE HERE

Visit The Centre for Hidden Histories WEBSITE HERE

WWI Project – Columba livia

December 15, 2014 joy

466 names of Ilkeston men who gave their lives in WWI have been machine woven onto individual name-tapes and pinned onto stretched canvas in the image of a pigeon. Thousands of homer pigeons also lost their lives during WWI. They were used to transfer important messages and were awarded medals of heroism for saving soldiers lives.

The work will be exhibited at Erewash Museum in September 2015.

Military Boots News Letter - 24 November 2014

November 24, 2014 joy

A big thank you to all those that have returned their completed name tapes. I am contacting possible exhibition spaces with a view to showing the work in 2015. However, there are still around 60 blue and 60 brown tapes to be returned, and I would like to receive these in the next couple of weeks. Once this time has passed I will invite more participants and there will be a possibility that late returns may not be included. Please contact me for any help or return any unused tapes.

Visit Military Boots Project at The Centre for Hidden Histories if you wish to leave a comment about the project or include any details about your family history.

Front bomb aimer in a Lancaster 18 Sept 1944

November 11, 2014 joy

To view the recent Military Boots news letter please see below dated 9 Nov 2014. I received this note recently with the seven completed name-tapes and would like to share it with you. Dear Joy,

My Dad A. A. D’Oyley died in January 1993 aged 71. I knew about the crash, he was the front bomb aimer in a Lancaster, and the “bubble” broke off. He saw, he watched “his mates” die as he fell. When he got back to the UK he visited all six families of his crew as well as writing to tell them.

I have only just found out that he was stationed at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire and just found out the names of the crew. I’ve been unable to find any other crews families. Thank you for this opportunity to remember them all, back as “mates”, all the crew.

The Crew: R. J. Waugh R.A.F.V.R. Age ? Killed: B. J. Cooper R.A.F.V.R. Age 21 Killed: A. T. Rogers R.A.F.V.R. Age 21 Killed: P. Lunt R.A.F.V.R. Age 21 Killed: J. G. L. Martin R.A.F.V.R. Age ? Killed: H. Shakespeare R.A.F. Age 22 Killed: A. A. D’Oyley R.A.F.V.R. P. O. W. Camp Stalag.