Being curious and having fun with nature is always priority here at Newquay Orchard, and our latest youth arts offer is certainly both.
Justin is an world experienced multi-disciplinary artist in Cornwall, specialising in the connection between culture and nature and working at the forefront of arts and public intervention.
Young people who come to our sessions become special agents, investigators of the sonic world and detectives of the curious unknown. There are no wrong or right answers in our sessions. All feelings and opinions are welcome as we explore how each of us holds a universe inside.
The workshops are available to up to 15 young people from the Newquay area each week. We aim to empower our local young people by offering them a new, exciting experience, using art, sound and the world around us.
In these workshops we seek to provide our young people with a voice. We want to encourage them to look at where they live differently, push boundaries and provide a safe space where they can explore themselves creatively whilst making meaningful connections within their community.
So far, the group our young people have listened to what clouds sound like, using technology that converts image to sound. They have discussed what creativity is and how clouds make us feel and used the model of the Japanese Haiku to pinpoint certain words. We explore the idea of what being ‘normal’ is, and how we feel about taking risks with art and what creating a legacy here in Newquay would look like.
All of this came together to create head imagery, combining our minds and the clouds above us to create sculptures that we have installed around the Newquay Orchard site.
Our sessions run on Wednesdays 3-5pm at the Newquay Orchard site and will be available to local young people aged 14+ until May 2023. If you or your child are interested in attending, please contact the team on info@nqyorchard.pixolomew.design or call us on 01637 877182 to book a place.
Feedback on Arts Lab from Young People
Here is some feedback for quotes:
How do you feel these sessions have gone so far:
A little bit weird
Fun, factual, interesting session, brilliant, joyful
Strange, fascinating, interesting and curious experiences relating back to nature
Interesting, a mystical mash
What would you like to happen in our art sessions at Newquay Orchard:
I want to play and do craft. I want to talk, laugh and have fun
To learn new things
To get more enjoyment
To have fun
I wanna draw stuff in these sessions, have a creative outlet
To understand poetry and haiku
I want to be interested and intrigued
To become better at art
Creativity, curiosity, peace, dexterity, freedom, texture, discovery
What do you think listening to clouds will feel like?
Breezy, peaceful, floaty, fluff
Comfort, dazed, moved, relieved, clenched, hunched, tense, alien, timid, overwhelmed, grounded
What did feeling and listening to clouds actually sound like?:
Like fireworks are going off
Feel it in my spine
Bad feeling
Buzzing feeling
Strange, like an electric shock
A sensation feeling in the chest
Like the clouds are chatty
Ethereal
Bumpy
Feelings, feelings are fragile like glass. You should never judge or hurt people.
Do clouds rave? Yes they do!
A strange, weird sensation
Felt it in my stomach
A reflex test on my spine
My legs became weak
Compelled to do more
As if my spine was being played like a xylophone
Waiting for the next cloud beat