Writing About Artefacts

Just watched the Teachers TV 'Writing About Artefacts' featuring ss Great Britain's new Education pack.

http://www.teachers.tv/video/5449

As Master Poet on this project I really enjoyed my original sessions working with Ashton Gate on the SS Great Britain and back at school to produce the materials for the SS Great Britain Creative Curator Pack.

Seeing Jackie (the teacher featured in the video) using the materials with such confidence and so well and the responses from the children in riddles, acrostics and tanka poems has really made my day.

The programme itself is well put together.

The pack's a real credit to the Education Team at ss Great Britain - this section just being one part of a large and rather wonderful pack covering many aspects of the national curriculum and more.

I'm looking forward to working with other museums and schools in exploring new ways of interpretation and interaction with artefacts through poetry and art including new approaches to labelling.

hailstone tea

hailstone tea
a patch of purple crocus
by the ninth green

Shooting Hoops

for a better world shoot hoops

Paul Conneally works with British basketball legend Karl Brown in the latest of his 'for a better world' series of works.

The piece includes a performance from Conneally with former England baskeball star and coach Karl Brown where they explore with children the philosophical question as to wether or not objects including knives, guns and drugs can in themselves be good or bad or if only humans can be good or bad.... later Karl returns with Paul to run basketball training drills with the children, revisit the ideas explored and share moments from his life with them during the process...

strap lines coming out of the work:

shoot hoops not drugs

shoot hoops not guns

don't carry knives shoot hoops

'for a better world shoot hoops'

Moonage Golf Dream

help our daydream become reality

for a better world play golf on the moon

Installation by Paul Conneally and Tim Wright at Mile End Arts Pavillion, London UK.This collaborative work forms part of Wright's ongoing work 'Golf on the Moon (with David Bowie)' and Conneally's 'For a Better World...' series of pieces.The video shows some of the visitors to The Renewability Exhibition,which was curated and conceived by Tomomi Iguchi of Crossover UK, holing out Hole 2 which goes from Arnold Circus to Mile End Arts Pavillion in Mile End Park, London UK.Conneally believes that most golf courses are environmentally unsound and urges: 'for a better world play golf on the moon'


The game of 'golf on the moon' involves a hole being set up somewhere - in this case in Mile End Arts Pavilion - and a tee being set up somewhere some distance away with a particular significance - in this case the mound in the centre of Arnold Circle - a place where ley lines converge amongst other things. Arnold Circle is on the Strand Ley through London.

The players tee off and then pick up their balls to walk back by what ever route takes their fancy to the hole location - a splacist version of a psychogeographic detournement. Along the way they are encouraged to talk to each other and engage with their surroundings - they too become looked at a little more than usual as they are carrying golf clubs - at least one each. When they reach the hole location they put their balls back on the ground and putt until they hole out.

Everyone wins.

The Sound of Water

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Jemma Bagley and Brenda Seaton discuss The Sound of Water – a piece exploring the area of Thurmaston via a haiku hike led by artist / poet Paul Conneally and co-ordinated by Jemma Bagley of Charnwood Arts, Loughborough, UK.

Words from the poems written during the psychogeographic drift – the haiku hke – will be engraved on to a series of sculptures by Richard Thornton in the new Watermead housing development.

The Green

The Green - Play Golf on the Moon - Hole 2

for a better world play golf on the moon

installation Mile End Arts Pavillion

paul conneally 2007

Playing Golf On the Moon (with David Bowie)

After the playing hole 2 from Arnold Circu to Mile End Art Pavillion with Paul Conneally and Gordon Joly

Commander Tim Wright takes time to re-focus:



PLAY GOLF ON THE MOON (WITH DAVID BOWIE)

"For a better world play golf on the moon"

for a better world play golf on the moon

paul conneally holes out at Play Golf On The Moon hole two

inside Mile End Art Pavillion, London uk

the installation called 'for a better world play golf on the moon'

is a collaborative piece linking conneally's work
from the renewabilty haiku hike

with tim wright's ongoing piece

'playing golf on the moon (with david bowie)'

Commander Tim Wright, Paul Conneally, and Gordon Joly

teed off from Arnold Circle and finished here inside the Art Pavillion.

here's a picture of Commander Tim Wright teeing off

conneally believes that most golf courses are environmentally unsound and urges you

'for a better world play golf on the moon'

Olympic

Here is a piece curently on show/in progress at The Renewabilty Haiku Hike Exhibition at Mile End Art Pavillion London UK:

The piece by Paul Conneally is a large wordsearch pinned to the gallery floor. The words come out of the deconstructed haiku that were written on the Renewabilty Haiku Hike through the London Olympic Development Site from Three Mills. Visitors are asked to engage with the walk, the individual walkers and the landsacpe walked through by finding a word and ringing it in one of the Olympic ring colours. The piece is finished when the wordsearch is finished or the exhibition finishes.

Three Estates Renga (number 6)

Here are ome pictures taken by Nikki Pugh at the last Three Estates Renga this last Saturday the 27th of January 2007. The peice is conceived by Gavin Wade and Alec Finlay with Paul Conneally as Master Poet throughout the project. The renga is the last of 6 conducted across the Birmingham '3 Estates' at various sites both outside and in.
Nikkis Renga Roundup is here:
Renga Roundup

this year i want some fun...

almost new year

almost new year the hangman's erection falls limp

the muckish

propososal for a poetry platform/mound with pit of words
the piece is envisaged as being in a school's grounds

paul conneally 2006

do not inhale

for a better world play golf on the moon

paul conneally

2006

14 Nights in Carnac

14 Nights in Carnac

mixed media - book and oak leaves

14 Nights in Carnac - a piece made by UK artist Paul Conneally (Little Onion) in July 2006. The artist spent 14 nights in Carnac famous for its megoliths its standing stones. He lived and slept below two oak trees. Each night reading sections of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle plucking an oak leaf from the trees and placing it inside the book as a bookmark.

The finished piece is the book with the leaves pressed inside it.

winter fair

winter fair
a man picks candyfloss
from his beard

Little Onion

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Work made as a video installation for the City of London Festival 2006 by Paul Conneally with pupils from a school in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, UK.

Interview with Susumu Takiguchi and D.W. Bender

Little Onion's interview with Debra Woolard bender and Susumu Takiguchi Chair of World Haiku Club:


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Cadbury College Renga

Here's a short video made by artist Nikki Pugh during the Cadbury College Renga. Master Poet for the piece is Paul Conneally (Little Onion) working with artists Gavin Wade and Alec Finlay on the '3 Estates Renga - 100 verses for 3 Estates' - music was everywhere - the video is silent but you'll hear the music if you watch carefully and catch the beat... it takes a little while to load so excuse the wait and then check out Little Onion's cool dance moves....

Lady Manners School (more)

LADY MANNERS SCHOOL, BAKEWELL, UK


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