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The exhibition Postcards from Canvey Island is a showcase of work created during Vanessa Rolf’s residency at Cornelius Vermuyden School, Essex. The exhibition will include maps and drawings by students from the four Canvey Island schools involved in the project.
For more information about the project visit Postcards from Canvey Island or the Canvey Island Archive.
© Vanessa Rolf
Exhibition: 6th – 12th October 2009 (by appointment).
Location: Karslake Gallery, Cornelius Vermuyden School and Specialist Arts College, Dinant Avenue, Canvey Island, Essex, SS8 9QS.
Tel: (01268) 685011
For travel to Canvey Island from London take the train to Benfleet from Fenchurch Street or Barking. Buses to the Island leave from outside the train station, or it is approximately a 20 minutes walk.
Vanessa Rolf is an artist in residence working with several schools in Canvey Island, Essex. The project involves exploring the island through maps and drawing, Vanessa will be using 100 of our drawing sheets throughout the project.
Correspondence from Vanessa:
“Canvey Island is an interesting area, it is at great risk of flooding as it sits lower than sea level, it has amazing salt marshes and a nature reserve that is home to the most diverse population of insects in Western Europe and many rare and endangered species as well as having some great faded amusement arcades.”
“There is a blog for the project, currently it is a collection of images that I am gathering from my explorings.” Postcards From Canvey Island
Feedback from Vanessa:
“We worked with the drawing sheets yesterday and they were fantastic – the kids loved them!”
We now have a NEW Tumblr site, where you can view all Foldedsheet publications. Here, you can see the layouts for all sheets with the publishing info for each project. You can also use the ARCHIVE section if you wish to view individual sheets. This site will be added to with each new commission or project.
New for 2009… we are now a sponsor of Kids in Museums.
Alongside the Guardian and Quentin Blake, Foldedsheet are supporting the charity Kids in Museums. We will be producing a special edition Activity Sheet notemap for the winner of the Guardian’s Family Friendly Museum Award.
The Kids in Museums Manifesto, along with the Guardian’s Family Friendly Museum Award have been incredibly successful ways of encouraging and guiding museums and galleries across the country to make family visits engaging and enjoyable.
This evening, the Kids in Museums Manifesto 2009 will be launched at the Royal Academy of Arts, London – we have supplied a number of our Drawing Sheets and Writing Sheets to be distributed at this event.
Visit the Kids in Museums website to find out more about their projects, work and manifesto.
Our new Drawing sheet has plenty of space to map out your thoughts and ideas…
Our new Writing sheet has loads of panels to record thoughts, construct essays, plan a novel…
…a sneak preview of new products for summer 2008 available soon
NEW Year to View 2009 & Academic Year to View 2008/9
NEW Drawing Sheet & Writing Sheet
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In March this year, the University of Brighton and foldedsheet were the winners of a prestigious Drawing Inspiration Award presented at The Royal Society, London, by Sue Grayson-Ford of The Campaign for Drawing.
see: BigDraw@Brighton news
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academic year to view 2008/9 [pocket size]
A year planner that fits in your pocket!
Use this sheet to plan your time, note down important dates and keep a record of events.
IDEAS overview [pocket size]
Map your ideas on this handy sheet, record interesting facts, collect research material, allow ideas to grow and discover new connections.
Explorer’s Drawing and Writing sheets were commissioned by the Brunei Gallery for Julia Winckler’s Retracing Heinrich Barth exhibition. The sheets were used as part of the education programme. School groups, college students and members of the public were encouraged to use them during visits and workshops in the gallery space. The sheets were produced to inspire visitors to map their experiences of the exhibition in pictures and words.
© Julia Winckler 2008
Drawing-a-Day foldedsheets were specially commissioned for the BigDraw@Brighton and University College Falmouth. Both events were organised in association with the Campaign for Drawing and LearnHigher Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
selected text from the BigDraw@Brighton sheet:
TheBigDraw@Brighton is a chance to explore and share the role that drawing plays in each discipline and to discover new uses: improving observation skills, reinforcing memory, generating and communicating ideas or mapping structures. The Drawing-a-Day map is a different way of exploring your visual thinking and it’s as easy to use as a regular sketchbook. You can still concentrate on one panel at a time – what’s different is that you can also spread the sheet out to display a whole sequence. Strong enough to fold and re-fold as often as you like, the sheet contains enough blank sections for just over a month’s worth of daily drawings.
