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Barriers Artist, Lucille Power is centred in the photograph. She is surrounded by red ballons which are attached to red ribbons, attached to the ribbons are small red tags. In the background people are watching Lucille and the balloons. On the back wall there are paintings of tower blocks and airplanes. The photo was taken at the Barriers exhibiton/happening by Paula Dower copyright DASh.

A fantastic week was had by all at the Barriers project. Performance, visual and sound art were created for the exhibition/happening on Saturday 4th August 2007.

A first for DASh, this intensive week of creating art around the theme of Barriers was a great success.

 

Below is a taste of the work that was created.

Sean Burn - Newcastle, created sound art using sound from the local area and his own unique verse, a multimedia show and printed verse on t-shirts.

David Burns - Birmingham, used his printmaking expertise to produce a series of prints using artificial limbs as the subject matter.

Nathan Campbell - Telford, created two raps, in his first performance he was joined by Sally Edwards, in his second performance Nathan really let fly and amazed us all with his lyrical stream of consciousness.

Sally Edwards - Shrewsbury, in her first performance Sally used dance, projected words and sound art to portray her Barriers concept, in her second performance she was a shadow figure using expressive dance moves.

Nikki Hewish - Telford, Nikki was the lead artist for the project and created the red and white Barriers figure from cellophane and tape.

Rowena Keavaney - Ireland, nine canvases were given outlines of tower blocks and airplanes by Rowena, each person on the project painted a peice of canvas. The result was an imposing wall of tower blocks, some of the blocks had Nathan's words from his poetry.

Lucille Power - London, created art using labels, words associated with mental health conditions were tied on to balloons which Lucille removed during the exhibition replacing them with positive words.

Barriers Artist, Lucille Power is centred in the photograph. She is surrounded by red ballons which are attached to red ribbons, attached to the ribbons are small red tags. In the background people are watching Lucille and the balloons. On the back wall there are paintings of tower blocks and airplanes. The photo was taken at the Barriers exhibiton/happening by Paula Dower copyright DASh.

Barriers - Lucille Power

Barriers Artist, Rowena Keaveny stands next to her collaborative painting. The painting consists of nine separate canvases, which make a block - 3 tall and 3 high. The painting uses all colours and shows tower blocks on the bottom two rows, on the top row is the top of the tower block and in the sky above are airplanes. The canvases were all painted by artists involved in the Barriers project. Photograph by Paula Dower copyright DASh.

Barriers - Rowena Keaveny

The photograph shows two prints hung on a wooden wall. The first image on the left is landscape format and shows various types of artificial legs, in the image are a man and a woman modelling the artificial legs. The image has been printed in yellow and overprinted in brown ther are two further artificial legs, on of the legs is prostrate. In the right hand image, also in landscape format, the smae print is used in the background but the colour is deep pink, the image has been overprinted with a landcspe imae of trees. Both of the prints were made by David Burns for the Barriers project. Photograph by Paula Dower copyright DASh.

Barriers - Prints by David Burns

Nathan Campbell, poet and rap artist, gets warmed up at the mike.

Barriers-Nathan

Barriers artist, Sally Edwards. Sally is performing her dance piece in the shop window. She is sitting on the floor with her legs in front of her, her knees are bent, her arms are raised, one arm is almost vertical the other is out to her left side. The photograph is taken loking out of the shop, onlookers include the Mayor and Mayoress of Shrewsbury and Atcham. Photograph by Richard Edwards copyright DASh.

Barriers - Sally Edwards

The red and white striped 3d life size human figure that Nikki Hewish created for the Barriers project is on her travels... Red and white barriers enclose the 3d figure and a man in a fluorescent vest. The photograph was taken outside the shop where the Barriers project took place.

Barriers - Nikki Hewish 3d sculpture

An image of a pigeon has been digitally manipulated. The pigeon is white with a darker outline around the body and eye. The words 'Rhyme Prevention Service' have been added to the breast of the pigeon in red capital letters. Image copyright Sean Burn

Barriers - Image by Sean Burn