Lanterns at Appledore Visual Arts Festival 09

Appledore's 12th Visual Art Festival themed Fire and Fury established the festival as one of the South West's major arts events. A daily programme of events exhibitions, Artists in Residence, kiln art, installations and drop in workshops attracted more than 10,000 visitors.

I was invited to create lanterns with participants to take part in the Saturday Night Fire Extravaganza. Emergency Exit Arts artist Ben Piper created a large male and female head from withies and tissue that when lit had a fiery argument created with tin buckets, flame throwers and fireworks whilst our multi coloured flashing supernova star and sun lanterns bobbed around in the crowd.

Inspiring pictures below of my workshops and our work on the night...