Artistic Director of Upstart Theatre, Tom Mansfield, and his team have been selected for our inaugural CAS:AIR community project commencing this September. They will connect Andover with ‘the bigger picture’ and give the whole of Andover an opportunity to experience a universe of hope and possibility. Tom Mansfield’s successful application to become the first ‘Andover […]
CAS updates and response to coronavirus outbreak
CAS have established a response and planning team consisting of the members of staff below. The team will skype once a week to review advice in response to coronavirus and to review contingency and scenario planning relating to the potential impact of coronavirus on our operations. The team will also skype immediately in the event […]
a trace of a thread
3:39amconversationalpoetry by me #kbwoodnews a trace of thread a paper petal shrined in powder fired becoming another_ a porcelain other to remain forevermore a reminder for us walking while talking of fragility found in a mother found in nature _ found in the spacebetween as we move through the Sandham stillness after dark in the […]
cyclicality of a line
noticingthe cyclicalityof a line–vertical linesrounds in lineslines of colourtraces of me#reflectionswithinlooking without–#conversationalpoetry@kbwoodnews4 Mar 2020 CAS Research and Drawing GroupMaija on WhatsApp “I was talking to Karen today and Karen said: “We were talking yesterday about straight lines and I was looking at a photo of a big round pillar. There’s no direction in cyclical movement is […]
Drawn Together; Research & Drawing Group, session one
This will be the blog for the new CAS Research Group ‘Drawing Languages for Dissent’ www.chapelartsstudios.co.uk/DrawingGroup2020 CAS research Group ‘Drawing Languages for Dissent’First session (2 March 2020) Notes The following is a compilation of quotes from Tim Ingold (2016) Lines: A Brief History – Introduction; and comments made by the participants during the conversation. Ingold […]
Lines of thought #casresearch
Ready for our first meeting, the CAS Research and Drawing Group have been reading Tim Ingold’s Introduction to ‘Lines; A Brief History’. We have been drawn into a contemplation of lines, dots, traces and surfaces. Ingold says ‘non-linear’ in non-western or other-than-colonial thinking assumes that ‘life is lived authentically on the spot, in places rather […]
New after school art club in your local studio/gallery; Andover
Painting by the youngest and next generation of Andover artists… On Tuesdays from 4pm, work with visiting artist John McDonald to create your own beautiful art for a group exhibition. Marta said, “We had an amazing, very inspiring art evening at CAS, I brought back home two exhausted but the happiest boys in the world!” […]
Painter John Mc Donald shows us what’s possible for Andover with an infectious sense of possibility
On Friday 7 February Chapel Arts Studios hosted an exhibition of portrait paintings by artist John McDonald, to introduce the community focused art project ‘Theme’s of Life’. We welcomed a significant number of local people who all came to find out what John has in mind for his three month visit in Andover. John McDonald […]
An innovative approach to sculpture combining sound and sacred geometry
Artist and Sound Therapist Tony Spencer is set to unveil new Geometric Sculptures at 5 regional galleries thanks to his successful ACE Project Grant application Tony Spencer has been awarded Arts Council England funding to create five unique multi-sensory sculptures based on the forms of platonic geometry, that offer the possibility of exploring emotional wellbeing. […]
Register for free creative days at Chapel Arts Studios with painter John McDonald
Artist John McDonald is looking for participants from all walks of life to be part of a 3 month project THEMES OF LIFE. Regardless of whether you have creative experience or not you can join John in his creative exploration of the lives and social history in and around Andover cemetery, where our Chapel Arts […]
How can dissent be a strategy for artists?
The CAS Research Group re-launches for its third year in the form of a ‘drawing and reading’ group: ‘Drawing languages for dissent’ Mar – Aug 2020. CAS Research Group; ‘Drawing languages for dissent’ will be an intimate and informal group, facilitated by your art-research mentor Dr Yonat Nitzan Green. Five monthly sessions, beginning in March, […]
