Fresh Flowers

fresh flowers

a bee follows me back

into the kitchen

Paul Conneally

Loughborough 2013

http://burnthewater.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/fresh-flowers/

'haiku for the people'

Display Clearance

Display Clearance - Paul Conneally 2013

For many people Sunday is a trip to the DIY store or better still a garden centre.

Often the big DIY shops incorporate a garden centre, a cafe too serving up a version of Sunday lunch. It's almost a day out.

I'm not knocking it. I'd encourage everyone to give it a go as an entertainment if nothing else. Leave all your money, except what you might need for emergencies, at home.

Take a notebook and pencil, one big enough to make sketches and diagrams in too. You never know what you might find to tickle your interest, your fancy, your creative juices.

Try not to have a set plan of action but strive to not follow any directions indicated by instore signs. In Ikea for instance enter via the till section, the exit and track back into the shop from there. This is easily done, don't worry about being told off, you won't be, and if you are, well ignore them.

View the experience in the same way as visiting a gallery or museum.

Take photographs, make sketches, write poems.

If something really grabs you appropriate it as a new work. Give it a title, write it on a piece of paper and label the piece. This will hopefully encourage new interpretations by other visitors, shoppers, of what they are seeing.

Don't leave until you have created, revealed, at least one new work.

Enjoy yourself.

Paul Conneally

Loughborough 2013

Hanging Around - L'Espace De L'Art Concret

'Hanging Around' 

Paul Conneally between readings at L'Espace De L'Art Concret - Mouans Sartoux 2013

Coneeally read in the centre grounds during the Yves Klein and super modernist architect Claude Parent show of 2013.

“Consider how boring it is within our homes. The kid stays in the assigned kid’s room while the grown-up sits on an inherited couch in another room. We’re completely overfurnished. What would it be like on the other hand, if space were understood more playfully, more free, if movement and being in a space also could mean climbing, reclining, sliding?”  - Claude Parent

CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE "Claude Parent the Super Modernist Architect" art haiku poetry France portrait Artist Poet

Artists Anne-Marie Culhane and Jo Salter and Finn with the Full BloomRenga Platform

Artists Anne-Marie Culhane and Jo Salter with Finn standing by the Full Bloom Renga Platform. The platform was designed and hand crafted by Jo Salter spefically for the Full Bloom Renga.

Throughout the day Master Poet Paul Conneally and Host Poet John Hall were joined by vistors to Cotehele on the renga platform to write together a Renga poem. 

A Renga is a Japanese collaborative linked poetry form related to haiku poetry and dating back many hundreds of years.

The Full Bloom Renga is a piece devised for The National Trust Full Bloom Festival by Anne-Marie Culhane with Paul Conneally, Jo Salter and Alec Finlay.

www.orchardnetwork.org.uk/renga/ 

Welcome to St Tropez

Travelling to St Tropez in summer is better by sea than road.

A shuttle service runs every 15 minutes between Sainte Maxime and her more famous neighbour. Out across the Golfe. Sit inside if you don’t want to get wet, especially on choppy days, outside for exhilaration and the view.

You go to St Tropez, when you’re on the Côte d’Azur, because you feel you have to. In the season it’s as much a theme park as any other.

Day-trip in August if you must but come back, if you can, in October or April. Savour the difference.

first boat of the day

a dolphin shifts

port to starboard

Paul Conneally

St Tropez 2013
Burn the Water

http://youtu.be/Kh2FRFhS7QY

Grilled Sardines

Everywhere on the Côte D’Azur lays claim to a little bit of Pablo Picasso.

On a short dérive, a walking without purpose around Antibes, I come across the Musée Picasso.

The museum is closed as it’s a Monday. There is no big sign to say so and I watch several couples and a family trek up the ramp to the entrance and then back down again.

Pablo appears on huge wall hangings in Mougins, Cannes, Antibes, Monaco. Most often in just his vest and boxer shorts. So much so, that I’m shocked to see him in Cannes, in a suit and tie, getting out of a car at the film festival.

grilled sardines

a one-man-band

dressed as a giraffe

Paul Conneally

Antibes July 29th 2013
http://burnthewater.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/grilled-sardines/

The Baker and the Biker

such short shadows
the baker asks the biker
to remove his helmet

Paul Conneally

Read the haibun here: http://burnthewater.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/the-baker-and-the-biker/

From The Head Teacher's Office - Frog Island Stories

From the Head Teacher's Window
Slater Primary School - Frog Island, Leicester
Paul Conneally 2013

 4/10098 Frog Island Slater Street School School.

1874, with minor C20 alterations. Built for the Leicester School Board. Red brick with ashlar and blue brick dressings. Graduated slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. 2 storeys. Blue brick chamfered plinth, ornate brick and ashlar first floor band and dentilated eaves cornice. Gothic Revival style. West, Frog Island facade has 6 windows. Ground floor has 6 pairs of tall casements with brick moulded and pointed heads.

Above 6 pairs of smaller windows, the second and fourth project slightly and rise through the caves as gabled dormers, each has a pair of tall pointed arched windows with above a circular window with iron star glazing. The remaining windows have pairs of flat headed casements. North, Slate Street facade has 10 windows.

Cross wing to right has pointed arched doorway with plank door, ashlar lintel and cast iron plaque inscribed "INFANTS", pointed arched overlight with cast iron star glazing and moulded hood, to right 3-light ashlar mullion window in pointed arched recess with shallow pointed relieving arch. Above another 3-light mullion window in pointed arched recess with circular window with iron star tracery. Central 7 window section has 7 pairs of tall casements with brick moulded and pointed heads. Above 7 pairs of smaller windows, the second and fifth project slightly and rise through eaves as gabled dormers, each has a pair of tall pointed arched windows with above a circular window with iron tracery. The remaining windows have pairs of flat headed casements. Irregular 2 window left end has pair of pointed arched doorways with plank doors, ashlar lintels and cost iron star glazed overlights with hood moulds. To left 3 tall vent slits. Small 3-light mullion window above and 2 small C20 casements to left. Rear has wooden corridor at first floor level supported on timber posts with clap-boarding and 3-light windows. INTERIOR retains most of its original features and plan form, including doors, internal glazed partitions and staircases. Upper floor classrooms have exposed roofs with ornate wooden trusses. History: this school was built to accommodate 378 boys, 310 girls and 243 infants. It is the oldest board school in Leicester surviving in a historic condition. Information from English Heritage registered buildings list. FROG ISLAND STORIES - Paul Conneally

Human Bat Walk - Fruit Route - Loughborough University

As the public gathered for artist activist Anne-Marie Culhane’s ecological bat walk artist Paul Conneally initiated a Human Bat Walk utilising splacist artist and ofttime collaborator Nikki Pugh’s bat goggles. People were invited to wear the sonar bat goggles and experience the orchard space as human bats using only echo location. After this they set out to walk the campus in darkness and meet Loughborough University’s real bat population.

Jumping for Joy - Fruit Routes - Conneally and Culhane June 2013

During 'In Your Hands',  the performative installation by artist activists Paul Conneally and Anne-Marie Culhane, we find Mika Obara jumping for joy for Japan in the nettle te leaves at the bottom of her tea bowl.

'In Your Hands' saw the public invited by Conneally and Culhane to join them for wild tea, scones, jam, clotted cream and tasseography, reading the te leaves, in one of the orchards planted as part of Culhane's long term piece for Loughborough University Sustainability Team, 'FRUIT ROUTES'.

New Century Works - Interventions and Works

NEW CENTURY WORKS

Paul Conneally & Maurice Maguire

Coming soon a new series of interventions and works at Snibston Discovery Museum

Lionheart by Shauna Richardson - Worlds Largest Crochet Sculpture

LIONHEART is the world’s largest crocheted sculpture. 

It's by Leicestershire artist Shauna Richardson and features three huge lions in a glass cage.

It is on exhibition at Snibston Discovery Museum, Coalville, Leicestershire, the home of Transform, for the rest of 2013.

Visit the museum but also Coalville itself, a town of real character.

The Picture Bar - Measham - Annie Holland's Palace of Light

The Picture Bar at Measham is built on the final resting site of Annie Holland’s famous fairground attraction The Palace of Light.

Annie Holland toured with her Palace of Light Bioscope Cinematograph Show. Mrs Annie Holland was one of ten women who travelled a fairground cinematograph in the early 20th century. Hers was described as the biggest and brightest on the road.

The Holland family presented both the Palace of Light and Wonderland, which was travelled by Annie’s son Albert. Arthur Fay writing as Southdown in the World’s Fair in the 1930s provides an interesting account of the type of performance the exhibitors presented. In April 1912 when the news of the sinking of the Titanic broke, a Gaumont Film Company newsreel was shown of the event. To accompany the film of the disaster, the Holland family arranged a musical sketch which incorporated tunes such as Afloat on the Ocean Blue, Ship’s Bell Rings, The Sailor’s Two Step, Crash, An Iceberg, Excitement on Board, Lowering the Boats, Women and Children First, and finished with Nearer my God to Thee and Chopin’s Funeral March. The February issue of World’s Fair in 1936 includes a description of a bill used by the Holland family and provides us with a guide to the admission charges which range from 3d up to 6d. Both shows continued to travel until the outbreak of the First World War, when the Palace of Light was settled permanently at Measham by James Holland where it continued to present moving pictures whilst the permanent cinema was constructed around it.

Bat Walk and Tea Leaves

19th June 2013 A Day of Fruit Route events including a campus bat walk, wild tea and scones and d.i.y. tasseography ….

FRUIT ROUTES IN SUMMER

Lunchtime walk 12.30-1.30pm. Learn more about wild food growing on campus and the new planting on the first University Fruit Route with Anne-Marie Culhane

Wild tea and scones in the orchard 2-6pm. Bring something comfy to sit on, enjoy scones and wild fruit jams and learn to read your own tea leaves with Paul Conneally & Anne-Marie Culhane

Candlelit orchard and drinks 9pm followed by a bat walk across Campus at 9.30pm with ecologist Ed Darby.

All events are free and open to all.  

All events meet at the small orchard opposite University Lodge, Loughborough University. 2 minutes walk from the front of Pilkington Library. Tel 0784 9073394 or 01509 222110 @fruitroutes

On A Hat Trick

on a hat-trick 

the bowler throws up 

a no ball 

Paul Conneally

Working From Memory

the public toilet 

has become a Pizza place

earlier still it was
the village ‘lock up’ 

a jail

older men

working from memory

that turn up looking 

for cottage lust make do now

with a Margherita

Paul Conneally

2013

LOCATION: Quorn, Charnwood, Leicestershire, UK

Situationist Media Freedom

   

Electronic Agora - Situationist Media Freedom

DOT - Birmingham

DOT - Birmingham

Walk the streets - anything that raises your senses above the normal threshold give it 1, 2 or 3 DOTS - the higher the number of DOTS the more above normal the place or something associated with the place registered with you - positive or negative - all the same.

Paul Connealy

''ALEX' - Modern Edinburgh Film School

'ALEX'
Modern Edinburgh Film School
Paul Conneally
May 2013

Alex Hetherington is a visual artist with a practice in film, text and sculpture who works under the title Modern Edinburgh Film School. He produces complex projects on the ideas of film, poetic form and sculptural process. 

"Portrait of artist Alex Hetherington - the image of Alex is the franked stamp on the envelope in which he sent an edition from Modern Edinburgh Film School to me in. A one off print on another envelope was made and sent to Alex from myself with pencilled message and signature on it. The 'clean' portrait of Alex as a franked stamp features the legendary Scottish football player Dave Mackay and may become available as a limited edition print or other artefact in the future." 

Paul Conneally October 2013

City Sunrise

city sunrise

she weaves between

still traffic

police sirens echo

building to building

Paul Conneally

From EMMA's DELL