August/September 2007
Summer Exhibtion
A dozen contemporary artists tooka fresh look at the meaning of LOCAL
While all are based locally and their work often draws local inspiration, all are interested in stretching boundaries in ideas and practice. Work shown included paintings, prints, collages and vitrines. The invited artists were David FULFORD Sophie HENDERSON Liz JOHNSON Marion KUIT Russell MILLS David William MORRIS Anne OPPENHEIMER David PENN Sarah PIKE Jac SCOTT Rosemary SMITH Ian WALTON Pam WILLIAMSON.

"The best exhibition I've been to in several years." (Visitor comment.)

March 2007
Mount Pleasant Airport, Falkland Islands

Big Draw Event
The most southerly event combined to make a Falklands Banner - using coffee, fingers and straws to draw on coasters.




Drawing Inspiration Awards April 2007:

Runners up, for Lines in Draught.
"I am always amazed how organisations with limited resources, but unlimited enthusiasm, can expand the boundaries of drawing for all of us." (Sue Grayson Ford, Director, Campaign for Drawing.)





December 2006 "Recycled for Christmas":

Pam Williamson's winter studio installation







Big Draw October 2006:
Lines in Draught

In Hawkshead Brewery's new tasting hall we invited adult visitors to join us drawing on beer mats, large and small. Using only the ingredients that go into fine beers as the "medium" and fingers, straws and squeezy bottles to draw on the mats, we collectively produced four huge mats full of flowing energy and many, many meticulous small mats which gradually assembled into a Community Beer Mat Banner. The event was pitched mainly at adults and over 100 took part. The work is currently on show at Wilf's Cafe.


Staveley Carnival July 2006

Carnival workshops in glorious sunshine produced five large collaborative pieces of work - three large Community canvasses and two panels made up of tiny microcosms, assembled from re-cycled and found materials, exploring the Carnival's theme of Our Fragile Future. Families and individuals contributed.





Drawing Inspiration Awards April 2005:

Highly commended for "The Wheel Thing."







December 2004 - February 2005:

"The Memory Engine": installation at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside







Big Draw October 2004: The Wheel Thing

Armed with 4' square boards, clay paint and bicycles we took over the main sales floor at Wheelbase's cycle store, where participants were able to make the same random - or sometimes considered - marks that bikes make across the countryside. Five of these boards are currently on show at Lanternhouse, Ulverston as part of the preamble to Lanterhouse International's major 2007 project "BIKE".


June 2004

"re:cycling" studio installation to celebrate Wheelbase's 10th anniversary.

For more details contact Pam Williamson or David Penn