Really Lovely Projects is supporting a team of artists from Port Isaac who are linked to a community in Pristina, Kosovo.
Embodying the Cornish motto, One and All, this project is about two communities connecting through creating shared artworks.
A group of professional Cornish artists, who are experienced in community work and have delivered projects from the Isles of Scilly to Italy, have been invited to create a piece of art work which expresses the threads of connection, strands and layers that weave these places together.
Using the resist-method of patterning, which is a global textile technique that builds pattern and colour into fabric, using local materials. The subsequent layering of this process, using local peoples stories and imagery, creates a rich, multi-faceted and visually stimulating end product.
The work planned in both communities will focus on designing signs and symbols which can be printed and applied to canvas and express something we can share about the place where we all live. These non-verbal, easy to understand shapes and marks will be taken and worked up into one collaborative piece.
Throughout this project the team will be carefully documenting, photographing and filming the process, to show how the work has impacted each area.
Limited edition of prints will be created, which will be given to local schools and community buildings.