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LANDMARKS: 2022 - WITH ENGAGING NEIGHBOURHOODS

In Spring 2022, six 'Engaging Neighbourhoods' partner groups across Calderdale took part in our Landscapes project. Together with exciting artists, the groups creatively explored the theme of environment, culminating in a public sharing of their work at Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags from 22-24 April 2022. 

We were elated to work with: 
  • THE WALKERS ARE WELCOME GROUP OF HEBDEN ROYD
  • THE SPACE COMMUNITY HUB
  • ​CALDER COMMUNITY CARES
  • TIME OUT (PART OF HEALTHY MINDS CALDERDALE)
  • ST AUGUSTINE'S CENTRE
  • HALIFAX OPPORTUNITIES TRUST - TODMORDEN CHILDREN CENTRE
  • RASTRICK HIGH SCHOOL - YEAR 10 STUDENTS​​​
View our impact with Engaging Neighbourhoods
We were delighted to welcome nearly 700 visitors to experience the inspiring work created by local community groups and artists as part of our Land Marks project.
This special exhibition took place from 22–24 April 2022 at the iconic Gibson Mill, a beautifully preserved 19th-century cotton mill nestled in the heart of National Trust Hardcastle Crags.
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Set against the stunning backdrop of ancient woodland and winding trails, the event celebrated place, landscape, and creative collaboration, offering a powerful glimpse into how art can connect people to their environment and each other.    ​
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Supported community members and volunteers of Calder Community Cares worked on ceramics incorporating plants with ceramicist Emily Ellwood, and called their project 'Spring Go Outside'.   

​In additon, local artist Amy Mellis and writer Amanda Dalton created ‘Todmorden Treasures - Let’s Create’ activity sheet for their It’s a Wrap campaign. The campaign distributed hundreds of donated gifts to those in the Calder Valley who found Christmas a difficult time. 
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CALDER COMMUNITY CARES are a volunteer organisation set up in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their work supports elders, families, isolated or vulnerable people living in Calderdale. They offer services including ‘check in & chat’, signposting to professional agencies, socials, & Food Share scheme.

Artist: Emily Ellwood

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​I am a hand-built ceramicist. I create hand-built ceramics playing with texture and size exploring the human figure. My figurative work are built using a variety of techniques including slab-building, using both soft and firm slabs, modelling and painting with slips. The main focuses of my work is sculpture whilst teaching. For the past twenty years I have worked in the creative industries across a mixture of disciplines from picture framing to millinery. My career in education began in special needs
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​I teach ceramics in a large high school in North Manchester. I also teach ceramics classes at Northlight Art Studios in Hebden Bridge. In the past I have worked for a number of voluntary creative projects across the North West. 
website
https://missellwood.cargo.site/

​https://www.instagram.com/emilyjaneellwood/

Artist: Amy Mellis

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After gaining a degree in Printed Textiles from Loughborough University, Amy returned to her hometown of Hebden bridge and set up a small studio with several other creatives. In 2014 the team founded The Egg Factory, a creative co-working space that serves the town’s writers, artists and home workers.

​As part of running this creative business Amy has developed her style along the way and honed her skills in digital and print design and illustration. 
Amy also prints merchandise for local businesses, bespoke wedding invitations and art prints for artists.
CURRENT WORK
Still a screen printer at heart, Amy’s love for the handmade and her passion for colour and pattern is reflected in her own range of stencil screen printed quilts, bags and homewares that are full of love and come from her creative heart.

Amy’s work is simple, playful and full of colour and she always aims to raise a smile when dreaming up the next project.
WEBSITE
www.amymellis.com
​During an outdoor adventure into the fascinating world of fungi at Hardcastle Crags, young people aged 10 to 14 with TIME OUT, co-curated the 'Underlands' project, involved fungi workshops and the creation of large-scale pieces of visual and word-based digital art. 
They explored the invisible plant-communications network (the 'Wood-Wide Web’) that exists beneath our feet. 
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Run by Calderdale's independent, user-led mental health charity Healthy Minds, ​TIME OUT is for all 10-19 year olds in Calderdale. With a focus on emotional wellbeing, they connect young people with activities, opportunities, learning & support. The service has been co-designed by young people, who said that ‘finding your thing’ - something you love to do or connect with – helps them feel good and stay well.
Artist: Alex Abel
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Alex Abel is an artist and charity worker - she likes to combine both as she trained in Communication Media - so is interested in how we learn effectively through creativity and how it supports good mental health. She started a company called Animania! which traded for nearly 20 years creating interactive art in libraries, museums, charities, schools, hospitals and colleges. She has also delivered training on how to design for effective learning to university students at Leeds and Manchester Universities. She has 25 years of experience in national community arts programmes, both paid and as a volunteer. She has delivered workshops for children and young adults in schools and colleges, as well as pupil referral units and charities working with young people ‘at-risk’ of offending, diverting energies into creative activity.
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​Alex loves social media for spreading visual arts and community activity and helps Time Out reach many contacts on blogs, websites, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for their partner network. She creates web content and artwork using Photoshop and is currently learning drawing skills on Procreate for the i-Pad.
she has done other jobs to pay the bills but always returns to art and photography for fun and inspiration.
Artist: Kate Edwards
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For over ten years, Kate was one-fifth of all female theatre company, Jammy Voo, who met at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris and went on to create and tour shows in the UK and Europe. She also writes things - her poetry has been published in various poetry journals and magazines and, with a Highly Commended (Forward Prize) poem recently published in the Forward Arts, Poems of the Decade, 2011 - 2020. ​
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Kate Edwards is an arts and wellbeing practitioner. As well as working as a project worker for Time Out, she is also an associate artist at a magical apothecary run by Grimm & Co. Last year, she founded The Medini Project CIC, which will see 2 acres of marginal land in Calderdale transformed into a medicinal forest garden; connecting people to plants through arts and creativity. Kate believes strongly in the magical powers of nature and the imagination to transform lives.
Artist: Tara Guha
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After winning the Luke Bitmead Bursary in 2014 her first novel, Untouchable Things, was published in 2015. Her second novel won a Northern Writers’ Award for work in progress in 2019.
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​Tara Guha is an author and mental health practitioner. 

​She loves to bring together her twin passions for writing and emotional wellbeing in fun, supportive and thought-provoking workshops. Tara is the team leader at Time Out.

Artist: Zeke Clough

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BACKGROUND
Zeke Clough is a professional cartoonist based in Todmorden. 
He facilitates cartooning workshops, assisting participants to explore their creativity.  He uses live drawing in wellbeing workshops, situations where language is a barrier and does one to one art sessions.
As an illustrator, he works on comic strips, books, record covers and produces slides for professional speakers.  In his spare time he works on an ongoing comic book series, scribbles in sketchbooks and produces pencil crayon drawings and acrylic paintings. 
CURRENT WORK
Lately Zeke has been learning more about 3D graphics programs to bring his own and other people's characters into this exciting realm.
He can be contacted via: www.zekeclough.co.uk or on twitter @protomurk
WALKERS ARE WELCOME GROUP OF HEBDEN ROYD partnered with us through ‘Land Marks’ to spotlight our local area and invite everybody of all ages, novices and professionals alike, to take part in a 'Crossings' giant outdoor photo project for Spring 2022. 
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Your photos formed part of an exhibition and digital slideshow that was shown in venues across Hebden Royd, and helped us to map our local landscape, celebrating its unique features and the people who are part of it.

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THE WALKERS ARE WELCOME GROUP OF HEBDEN ROYD are a community organisation, set up in 2006. As well as encouraging everyone to go for a walk, in 2007 they launched a ‘Stepping Out’ photomosaic scheme made up of over 500 photos of local flights of stone steps. ​

Artist: Lizzie Lockhart

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Lizzie has taught in the arts for over 40 years, helping students to achieve results they didn’t think were possible. ​Passionate about textiles and using materials in unexpected ways, she has worked with children to create a flock of sheep wearing Aran jumpers in situ in Hardcastle Craggs, made a shoal of goldfish made from recycled tomato puree tubes and co-worked on the Hebden Bridge Steps project with over 750 photos sent in by the public.​
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Lizzie Lockhart is a local artist who has been involved in many projects with the community and works with people of all ages and abilities. ​

​She is a magpie and a passionate collector, seeing the beauty in things that other people may discard. A real enthusiast and passionate artist, Lizzie has exhibited both locally and internationally, bringing joy to all who see her humorous and delightful creations.

Poet/Playwright: Amanda Dalton

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BACKGROUND
Amanda is a poet and playwright. Her poetry collections
How To Disappear and Stray are published by Bloodaxe and her recent pamphlets include Notes on Water (smith|doorstop 2022) and 30 Poems In Thirty Days (Arc Publications 2021), an experimental ‘sketchbook.’

She writes extensively for BBC Radio 4 and 3 including original plays, drama documentary and adaptations of novels and film, most recently The Ventriloquist’s Dummy and Cov for Radio 4 and as lead writer on Middlemarch (BBC Radio 3).

Her work for theatre includes commissions with Manchester’s Royal Exchange and Sheffield Theatres.Her work for theatre includes commissions with Manchester’s Royal Exchange and Sheffield Theatres.
CURRENT WORK
She features in a forthcoming episode of Northern Drift recorded at Hebden Bridge Trades Club, and a version of her Notes on Water will be broadcast as an episode of Radio 3s Between The Ears in March.

She is currently writing a Christmas show for Theatre by The Lake in Keswick, a series of short film texts for Manchester Camerata, and completing a new poetry collection to be published by Bloodaxe.
www.amandadalton.co.uk
Sanctuary seekers and volunteers at St. Augustine’s Halifax presented outdoor artwork having worked with artist Louisa Clarkson and photographer Chris Lord.   

The Creative Group enjoyed some trips to Tate Liverpool, Crosby Beach and Yorkshire Sculpture Park to take inspiration for weekly art sessions. The themes included the use of maps, landmarks, places and moments that resonate with us and who we are. 
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ST AUGUSTINE'S CENTRE in Halifax is Calderdale's spcialist charity working with people seeking asylum and refugees, as well as local people. They offer advice on immigration, asylum support, and 1:2:1 help with welfare, housing, health and access to wider services. They run English classes, a 'free shop', bike & tech repair lab, Welcome Cafe, sports, arts activities, trips, events, and volunteer/befriending programme. Together with the Valley of Sanctuary, they run awareness raising sessions for schools and organisations.

Photographer: Chris Lockhart

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BACKGROUND
Studied design and creative arts including photography, moving on to higher education studying  commercial photography. Created a working portfolio in computer engineering, park ranger, rugby but to name a few!!, but through it all keeping a semiprofessional interest in Photography and Art. In 2002 Julie and I embarked on a full-time commitment to photography. The contemporary mill studio was setup in Halifax and was our creative hub until a fire in 2018 forced a move to the wonderful world of Hebden Bridge where the new warehouse studio is situated in our friend's business premises at Print Bureau on Valley Rd.
CURRENT WORK
As a business we have had to diversities over the years as the photography industry changed, as technology moved forward. Mainely concentrating on commercial and the private business sector. Always striving to stay close to my creative ideals and to push creativity in my work where possible. ​

Artist: Louisa Clarkson

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​A self-governed creative individual, who has been involved in many community artistic projects over the years.

Louisa has enabled diversity and creativity to individuals, that have channelled a creative process, through the use of diversional strategies and focus on empowering individuals through progress, achievements and success.

CURRENT WORK
Louisa worked with St Augustine's Centre on the Creative Neighbourhoods project with us in 2020. 
New parents, babies, toddlers and nursery children at Todmorden Children's Centre and Halifax Opportunites Trust 'Stay & Play' sessions with artist Danielle Lovett explored Forest School outdoor art activities. 

​Artist Dannielle Lovett hosted fun foraging workshops and outdoor art get-togethers - and created a stunning piece of collaborative artwork. 
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​As part of their Children & Families work, HALIFAX OPPORTUNITIES TRUST recognise the additional support some families need, and as a result they facilitate groups and sessions within the community as well as providing nursery places for children aged 0-5 years. The groups/nursery sessions enable parents and children to come together, play, learn new skills, be school ready and access additional support​.
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Artist: Danielle Lovett

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​Danielle Lovett is a local artist living in Hebden Bridge with her family including her two young children. She mostly works with Children and the Early years, in an arts and crafts based setting.
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She is currently progressing her work into forest schools to engage children into the wonders of nature, whilst still using the arts to explore this. Danielle also works with community outreach projects and organisations as far as greater Manchester teaching the arts, screen-printing, mark making and more. ​
Year 10 Art GCSE pupils at Rastrick High School made relief collagraph prints on Connections to Nature with artist Rachel Red. 

This initiative was also focussed on inspiring the next generation of their pupils aged 14-16. A series of video interviews were programmed from people working in the creative industries showcasing what it’s really like having a career in the arts. 
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Artist: Rachel Red

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​Rachel Red is a printmaker, designer and print teacher living in Hebden Bridge and working at Northlight Art Studios. Her work is a celebration of the natural world and of special places. She makes lino prints of wild creatures in their natural habitats and screen prints to represent the character of different places. Her style is bold and simplified with limited colour palettes.
current work
Inspirations range from mid-century design to nature tables, travel posters to fairy tales. Most images come from personal experience and wildlife sightings, which seems to key into other people’s connections to places and to the natural world.
 
She designs a range of homeware and stationery from these original prints. Rachel is also available for design commissions such as posters, leaflets, branding, labels, exhibition boards or other interesting challenges.
website
www.rachreddesigns.co.uk
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Postal Address: Hebden Bridge Arts, The Town Hall, St George's Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7BY.
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Hebden Bridge Arts is the trading name of Hebden Bridge Arts Festival Limited, a company limited by guarantee and registered in England & Wales with company number 3520619. Its registered office is 12 Market Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 6AD. Hebden Bridge Arts Festival Limited is registered with the Charity Commission with charity number 1070600.

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      • YOUNG PEOPLE'S SHORT FILMS
      • ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
      • MOTH INSPIRATION
      • CREATIVE COURSES
    • CROSSINGS
    • LAND MARKS
    • CREATIVE NEIGHBOURHOODS
    • BLUE PLAQUES
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