the city moves from
blue to orange
Paul Conneally
iPhone haiku
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Friday, February 01, 2013
Candice Jacobs - artist - at the Nottingham Bath Inn
Great evening at Nottingham Trent University art talk from Gavin Wade and then on to The Bath Inn a Fish and Chip pub and fab new art hangout! Gavin and Paul Conneally were joined there by artists Candice Jacobs, Rob Flint and Gerard (Gerry) Williams.
There's a buzz about the Midlands art scene - Birmingham, Nottingham, Loughborough, Derby, Leicester - the list is too long - the whole of THE MIDLANDS!
There's a buzz about the Midlands art scene - Birmingham, Nottingham, Loughborough, Derby, Leicester - the list is too long - the whole of THE MIDLANDS!
OUCH! - Art Bread from Eastside Projects
Anyone in Birmingham should visit Eastside Projects in Digbeth - anyone not in Birmingham should go there and visit Eastside Projects!
'Landlocked' - the rise of the Midlands!
Paul Conneally
1st February 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Fennel Street Club - Loughborough
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail Gets Ironed
Start at Snibston Discovery Museum where you can park up and finish there too with some refreshments from the museum cafe.
Or start from anywhere on the trail - your choice!
Inside 'The Blind Fiddler - Home Entertainment 1806 - 2012'
"A picture which perhaps illustrates the eclectic nature of Paul Conneally's exhibition 'The Blind Fiddler - Home Entertainment 1806 - 2012' at Snibston Discovery Museum 2012."
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Sarah Hutchinson's Breast - Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail
Queen's Head Pub Thringstone - Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail - Paul Conneally 2011
On Saturday 27 December 1806 the great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes in his notebook that he went from Coleorton, where he was staying with Wordsworth and his family, to the Queen's Head at 'Stringston'.
Here, he believed, probably due to opium and brandy, that Wordsworth was in bed with his sister-in -law Sarah Hutchinson, who Coleridge had fallen in love with. Coleridge writes that it was here that he had a vision of Sarah's naked breast, a vision that he carried with him for many years, writing about it several times.
The pub was closed in 2008 and is now converted into residential housing.
The pub was closed in 2008 and is now converted into residential housing.
This picture shows it on the 27th April 2011 as conversion was taking place.
CHURCH TO BE ERECTED - Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail
The spot for Swannington Church was selected by the great English poet William Wordsworth who lived in the area at Coleorton 1806 - 1807 with his family at Coleorton Hall Farm as a guest of Sir George Beaumont. The spot was also the inspiration for his series of poems called The Ecclesiastical Sonnets.
This picture comes out of Paul Conneally's cultural forage 'Spoil Heap Harvest' for Transform Snibston, Snibston Discovery Museum.
It features on Conneally's 'Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail'
This picture comes out of Paul Conneally's cultural forage 'Spoil Heap Harvest' for Transform Snibston, Snibston Discovery Museum.
It features on Conneally's 'Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail'
CHURCH TO BE ERECTED
BE this the chosen site; the virgin sod,
Moistened from age to age by dewy eve,
Shall disappear, and grateful earth receive
The corner-stone from hands that build to God.
Yon reverend hawthorns, hardened to the rod
Of winter storms, yet budding cheerfully;
Those forest oaks of Druid memory,
Shall long survive, to shelter the Abode
Of genuine Faith. Where, haply, 'mid this band
Of daisies, shepherds sate of yore and wove
May-garlands, there let the holy altar stand
For kneeling adoration;--while--above,
Broods, visibly portrayed, the mystic Dove,
That shall protect from blasphemy the Land.
William WordsworthFriday, January 25, 2013
'The Fold' Wordsearch Landscape 100 Verses for 3 Estates
'The Fold' - Wordsearch Landscape 100 Verses for 3 Estates - Paul ConneallyOne of a series of Wordsearch Landscapes proposed as public art out of the year long 100 Verses for 3 Estates piece for Birmingham City Council in the Kings Norton 3 Estates by Gavin Wade, Alec Finlay & Paul Conneally.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Rusty Sculpture
public art
quietly rusting away
the car park
Forest Lodge Education Centre, New Parks, Leicester.
quietly rusting away
the car park
Forest Lodge Education Centre, New Parks, Leicester.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Ice-scraper
the winter flowering cherry
keeps me warm
Paul Conneally
Haiku - Sent from my iPhone
Rapture : Sheffield Place from Invigilator Derby
RAPTURE
homeward I walk
in solitude
sometimes we play
on the way home from school
on Wincobank Hill
breaking into gangs
to throw stones at each other
off Newman Road
in the half-built houses
it’s hide and seek
up and down ladders
scaffold pole javelins
a happy time
for me a time of rapture
clear and loud
Paul Conneally
See and hear Paul read RAPTURE as part of his talk for Global Cities Week in Coventry : http://vimeo.com/m/38098184
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
A bird singing at 1.30 am 8th January 2013
This bird is along with other thoughts keeping me awake. 
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Thursday, January 03, 2013
Sockman and flowers - Loughborough Market
a bowl of hyacinths
for the front parlour
Paul Conneally
Trapped - Loughborough Carillon Tower
in the Carillon Tower
notice board.
Paul Conneally
Boxing Day 2012
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Fruit Routes - Anne-Marie Culhane talks with Transition Towns Loughborough
Photo: Paul Conneally
Sunday, December 30, 2012
For a better world...
Following on from 'For a better world play golf on the moon' artist Paul Conneally works with British Basketball legend, Karl Brown, on a piece with primary school pupils exploring knife and gun crime. Here is a pledge wall at a school in Leicester made by pupils after the participatory workshop performance by Conneally and Brown.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
For a better world play golf on the moon
‘For a better world play golf on the moon’ Paul Conneally & Tim Wright
Mile End Arts PavillionFriday, December 28, 2012
Circle of Fire - word map Sheffield
Word map tracing the route of the Grow Sheffield / Off The Shelf Renga Ramble from Mushroom Lane (Weston Park Museum) to organic gardening guru Richard Clare’s allotment on Crookes Quarry Allottments.
The piece was conceived and led by artist / poets Anne-Marie Culhane and Paul Conneally and explores what happens when the renga process is taken from its normal ‘one space’ setting to travelling through an area stopping at various points to write, read and select the poems that go to form what became the ‘A Circle of Fire’ renga.
This renga combined the walking/writing process with the one space process - the first 6 stanzas being written during the walk to the allotments where the last 6 stanzas were then written in situ. The renga form used is an adapted Junicho form - a 12 stanza renku form with the schema with its seasonal, moon and love positions written by Culhane & Conneally.
The experience of writing a renga, keeping to schema, linking and shifting and walking through ‘this place’ from here to there is a very different experience to writing in one space one place and highlights how the environment the surroundings and people influence the writing process and how the writing - the renga process itself - transforms the space the place in which - and when renga rambling across - that the poem is written.
The walking through public space - in this case from a central city location through residential areas to Sheffields urban edge - and the stopping to write, read out loud and the master poet selecting the next stanza before moving on again - highlighted the performative aspect of the process of renga perhaps differently to when in one space where the process is still performative but different.
A Circle of Fire embraced both with the last 6 stanzas written in a greenhouse on Richard Clare’s allotment.
Nine poets performed / made A Circle of Fire: Paul Conneally (master poet) Anne-Marie Culhane (host poet) Felicity Stout Nadine Wills Joseph Conneally Vanessa Senger Jenny Laird Andrea Allsopp Su Walker
Frozen Thoughts
broken glass and vomit
in a flower bed
Paul Conneally
haiku psychogeography war splacist
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Panoramic Tile - Fayence
Paul Conneally
Monday, December 24, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Fruit Routes Map from 2012
There will be more Fruit Route activities in Spring 2013.
Paul Conneally December 2012
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Invigilator - Malvern | Emotion Grid
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The Cut Inside - Paul Conneally on the stump!
Sunday, December 02, 2012
William Wordsworth Trail Mug - Paul Conneally
For Transform Snibston
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Barefoot Blindfold: Some reflections - Paul Conneally
Reflecting on Barefoot Blindfold I'm more and more drawn away from the video installation / recorded performance or gig and art gallery to space time specific.
Barefoot Blinfold was not recorded as part of the piece.
Barefoot Blinfold happened for and with people, plants, animals and objects in the there and then.
Only this snippet caught by Miriam Keye on her phone and probably a few other similar videos and photographs by passers by exist.
Some drawings and words too and above all emotions.
Taken hostage by nature - choreographed by birds - exhilaration!
The blind man's guide,
Meek and neglected thing, of no renown!
Soon will peep forth the primrose, ere it fades
Friends shall I have at dawn, blackbird and thrush
To rouse me, and a hundred warblers more!
from 'The Recluse' by William Wordsworth
Artist Paul Conneally during his and Anne-Marie Culhane's Barefoot Blindfold piece at 5am on Loughborough University Fruit Route.
Eleven were slow walked by Anne-Marie Culhane into an orchard section of her ongoing Fruit Route work at Loughborough University to take part in Culhane & Conneally's 'Barefoot Blindfold.
Participants chose a fruit tree sat against it and were blindfolded in order to foucus their senses away from the visual for the the first half hour and then still in silence to spend the nesxt half hour without the bliindfold recording their emotions / reactions to the fruit route at dawn.
Conneally invited them during the blindfold session to allow the sounds to choreograph.the movements of their upper body and arms. This is a short section filmed by Miriam Keye of Conneally being choreographed by nature in fact by birdsong.
This is only a small part of the whole of Barefoot Blindfold but offers perhaps opportunities to explore the idea of being choreographed by nature further in other works to come. Perhaps we already are.
Barefoot Blinfold was not recorded as part of the piece.
Barefoot Blinfold happened for and with people, plants, animals and objects in the there and then.
Only this snippet caught by Miriam Keye on her phone and probably a few other similar videos and photographs by passers by exist.
Some drawings and words too and above all emotions.
Taken hostage by nature - choreographed by birds - exhilaration!
The blind man's guide,
Meek and neglected thing, of no renown!
Soon will peep forth the primrose, ere it fades
Friends shall I have at dawn, blackbird and thrush
To rouse me, and a hundred warblers more!
from 'The Recluse' by William Wordsworth
Artist Paul Conneally during his and Anne-Marie Culhane's Barefoot Blindfold piece at 5am on Loughborough University Fruit Route.
Eleven were slow walked by Anne-Marie Culhane into an orchard section of her ongoing Fruit Route work at Loughborough University to take part in Culhane & Conneally's 'Barefoot Blindfold.
Participants chose a fruit tree sat against it and were blindfolded in order to foucus their senses away from the visual for the the first half hour and then still in silence to spend the nesxt half hour without the bliindfold recording their emotions / reactions to the fruit route at dawn.
Conneally invited them during the blindfold session to allow the sounds to choreograph.the movements of their upper body and arms. This is a short section filmed by Miriam Keye of Conneally being choreographed by nature in fact by birdsong.
This is only a small part of the whole of Barefoot Blindfold but offers perhaps opportunities to explore the idea of being choreographed by nature further in other works to come. Perhaps we already are.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Dangerous Poets: Summers & Conneally
Haiku Bruisers at The Royal George, Euston, London.
November 20th 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Agnes Archer Evans - Suffragette - Leicester
Agnes Archer Evans was an active suffragist, being the founding treasurer of the Leicester and Leicestershire Women's Suffrage Society in 1887. The plaque is situated on the building where she lived for some time following her marriage - 6 St Martin's, Leicester.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
after all this time
he still almost orders
her gin with his pint
Paul Conneally
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Alderman Newtons School
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Anne-Marie Culhane in the Landscaping & Gardening Our Society Shed
Anne-Marie Culhane in the Landscaping & Gardening Our Society shed
Artist Anne-Marie Culhane in the LAGOS shed Loughborough during the Fruit Routes Harvest Celebration. We had a rocking, fruit pressing, hell of a good time!
Paul Connealy Oct 2012 Sent from my iPhoneSaturday, October 20, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Morning Bath - Were US unemployment figures fixed to favor Obama?
Take Republican stalwart and former General Electruc CEO Jack Welch and his trigger happy Twitter fingers on Friday when he posted to his 1.3 million followers:
"Unbelievable jobs numbers, these Chicago guys will do anything ... can't debate so change numbers."
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
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