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woven artwork inspired by/involving children

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Design development inspiration

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bringing childlike playfulness to city environments

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Two types of buildings have been used to generate patterns for the crossings. Everyday architecture, of the kind that Croydon is full of, and which usually barely register, delightful Edwardian concoctions, sturdy victorian facades, are taken from the street on which the crossings are placed, and are celebrated as everyday icons, elevated to the status of items to be contemplated, and -of course- walked all over. These are icons of the everyday.

Croydon is famous for its heroic modernist space-age architecture, its two Seiferts and its other tower blocks, which thrilled generations of kids like myself, looking for all the world like a piece of the future had slipped into South London from another dimension. These iconic buildings are celebrated by being brought into the everyday, by being turned into fun patterns for gum to be squished into, to squelch as you walk across them and your shoes stick a little in the hot summer sun. These are the everyday of the icons.

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A public art commission of five large Ground Art works for Croydon Council, 2018 The city around us is the world's biggest gallery, of life, of materials, of compositions, and our buildings provide endless delight, they are a starring attraction in that great permanent exhibition, we just need to look up at them.

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Fantastical city

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Fabulous Flourishes are buildings from the fantastical city of Capreesh, all of which are being revealed one at a time as Tezos NFTs on Rarible. Purchase one and become a citizen of Capreesh (a Capreeshio), and when 1000 buildings and their NFTs have been obtained by citizens, the city will be opened to visit in the Metaverse.

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tufts/feathers tactile aspect

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paper cutting/weaving

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Playful rocks - similar to rock garden from primary research

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needle felting/punch needles

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coloured mushrooms

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playing with household objects

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Capturing Childhood memories in miniature

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warp colours interacting with distorted weft

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design development inspo

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differencing proportions of colour - slub yarns?

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block colour interactions

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organic plastic

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paper cut motifs

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winding inspo

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small space gardens

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excessive details

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using natural elements to create false environments

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small scale imagined environments

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making patterns using toys

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playful forms

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spatial colour sculpture

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playful and 3d aspect

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Gunta Stotlzl - geometric and fluid colour

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Different thickness and style of lines

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Marcia Simonds - woven nature art pieces

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outsider art - sense of naïve

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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

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Sotheby's is using a quiet time in the London calendar to show a refreshing exhibition in collaboration with Outside In, a UK charity that supports artists living and working outside mainstream society. This is Sotheby's first exhibition of "outsider art", that fashionable but nebulous term.

Outside In: Journeys (11-19 January) includes the work of just over 30 artists, of all ages, who find it difficult to access the art world, whether due to health, disability, personal circumstances, isolation or being homeless or in prison. Among them are: Rakibul Chowdhury, who has autism and makes vibrant works on paper depicting a complex mix of sharply observed celebrities; Nigel Kingsbury, who made delicate drawings of women before he died in 2016; and the Portuguese artist Manuel Lança Bonifacio, who has learning difficulties. At 70, Bonifacio is one of Outside In's success stories: his work is held in collections across the world including in the collection of Art Brut at the Fondation Dubuffet in Paris.

Jasna Nikolic, Mosquito, 1997 Outside In

The exhibition aims to tell the story of Outside In since it was founded, with a donation of £500, by Marc Steene in 2006 at Pallant House Gallery in West Sussex and marks its official launch as an independent charity after it was granted the status in 2016.

Steene studied at the Slade School of Art in London but, he says, "I got disillusioned with the art world, it wasn't very inclusive. So I started working in a day centre with artists with learning disabilities." He has been working with one of the artists included in the Sotheby's show, Peter Cutts, for 30 years, since he was his key worker in Brighton. "When I started working in the day centre, some of the work was just beautiful," Steene says, "I booked a space at Brighton Library to put on an exhibition of their work. But when I went to collect it, their work had disappeared. The centre had pulped it to make into papier mache. Every three months, they pulped all the work they produced. For me that was shocking, the ritual destruction of their work because it wasn't valued as art."

Steene resolved to make sure the work of such hidden artists was not only preserved, but exhibited too, and the show at Sotheby's will help, Steene hopes, to "validate" the work of these artists in the eyes of collectors. Steene and the Outside In team travel throughout the country to find artists, working with day centres and art outreach organisations such as Action Space in London, and currently have 2,500 signed up.

The term outsider art sits uncomfortably with Steene: "We have to skirt with that, we don't really like the term". The charity, which actively sells its member artists' work, exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair in Paris last October and plans to do the New York edition of the fair in 2019, alongside taking part in more "mainstream" art fairs.

Dannielle Hodson, The Flasher, 2015 Outside In

One artist included in the Sotheby's exhibition, Dannielle Hodson, began painting in prison. "Jackie, the art teacher in the prison, may never know that when she handed me the paintbrush and the oil paints, she handed me a lifeline", Hodson says. "I had been suicidal that day and believe quite honestly that I would have taken my life had that not happened." Making art in prison, she says, was easier than in the real world: "The challenge I faced once leaving the institution was not knowing what the art world was and what art is to that world. It's a very elite environment and I was uneducated (in art) and working class, working to make art. I realised I was at the bottom of a very big ladder."

Another, Jason Pape, has Asperger's Syndrome, which is, he says, "a daily challenge as it is so difficult to fit in the "norm". And that's the same with artwork unless you make art in a conventional way or have a formal art education, it is much harder to be accepted as a legitimate artist."

Some of the works are for sale, priced from around £300 to £4,550.

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Sotheby's brings outsider art to Bond Street

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Sotheby's is using a quiet time in the London calendar to show a refreshing exhibition in collaboration with Outside In, a UK charity that supports artists living and working outside mainstream society. This is Sotheby's first exhibition of "outsider art", that fashionable but nebulous term.

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disjointed geometric

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magical/surreal/false environment

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child-like safe spaces

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Ikea releases instructions on how to build homemade forts for kids

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You will need pillows, pegs, books, fairy lights and a big blanket (obvs). Giant teddy bear, optional.

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Anthropomorphic plants

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allotments personal environments, miniature spaces

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community gardens - small space gardening

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properties of mushrooms

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memorialising the garden

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Listings for Garden Museum exhibitions, events and visits.

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City farm - displacement/surrealism

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immersive worlds

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Tame Impala - Breathe Deeper (Official Video)

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block colour and movement

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bringing garden inside

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unconventional play areas

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Artifical Nature

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Kay Nielsen - fantasia

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Kay Nielsen knew his way around a fantasy. The Danish illustrator was raised in a "tense atmosphere of art" (his words) during the Golden Era of Illustration - a time when folks one-upped each another with books bearing golden spines and marbled end papers; elaborately illustrated copies of Grimm's Fairytales, The Wizard of Oz, and Oscar Wilde's witticisms. Nielsen was the cream of the crop, and remembered not only for his sublime contributions to storybook volumes, but his work on the iconic animated Disney film, Fantasia (1940) - in fact, he was kind of a Disney darling until the company abruptly let him go. One look at his work, and it's clear: he's their One Who Got Away...

Kay Nielsen 1914.

Kay Nielsen, 1914.

Kay Nielsen, 1914.

Nielsen was born in 1886 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to thespian parents, which may explain his flair for the dramatic. He studied art in Paris at prestigious institutions like the Académie Julian, and received his first commission for a book called In Powder and Crinoline: Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in 1913, and East of the Sun and West of the Moon a year later. Today, it's considered one of his most celebrated works; there's an air of Asian influence in his scenes - not unlike those of illustrator Errol Le Cain - and a lush dose of Art Nouveau. The arabesque lines are so delicate, they look as if they'd been carved into thin air with his pen. And those clothes ...

Kay Nielsen, 1914.

The world went wild for Nielsen, who captured both the whimsy and dark undercurrents of so many old fables (like Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen in 1924). He began dabbling in theatre set design, and even exhibited his work in New York, enchanting the public with these worlds that seemed to come alive at twilight.

Kay Nielsen / Det Danske Filminstitut

But what kind of man was Nielsen? Certainly a fashionable one. We'd wager the quietly eccentric variety. The kind who wears a tie bearing his last name:

Kay Nielsen / Det Danske Filminstitut

By the late 1930s, Nielsen was living in Hollywood and working for various studios in California. On the personal recommendation of a friend, he was hired by Walt himself to work for The Disney Corporation, and dreamt up the très spooky "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence in Fantasia (1940):

Disney, in a relatively short career (1937-41) that includes illustrating for Fantasia (1940):

Night on Bald Mountain concept art by Kay Nielsen for Fantasia (1940)

"Night on Bald Mountain" concept art by Kay Nielsen for Fantasia (1940)

"Night on Bald Mountain" concept art by Kay Nielsen for Fantasia (1940)

He also completed concept drawings for 1989's The Little Mermaid that would end up having a heavy influence the look of the film 30 years later...

Kay Nielsen / Det Danske Filminstitut

Unfortunately, Disney let Nielsen go after just four years. In They Drew As they Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Musical Years we learn why. "As the war closed foreign territories Disney released, the Studio looked for ways to limit the cost of future productions," writes author Didier Ghez, "[Nielsen] found that his detailed perfectionism, once so valuable on Fantasia, was now viewed as liability." He didn't abide by production deadlines, preferring to work slowly and let his drawings reveal themselves to him in their own time. It's terribly romantic. But alas, not very economical. Still, given that Disney was consulting his storyboards for The Little Mermaid decades later, the mind reels of what might've been had they held onto him a little longer...

Kay Nielsen, 1914.

Kay Nielsen, 1914.

Kay Nielsen, 1914.

In an interview with Contemporary Illustrators of Children's Books in 1930, Nielsen cites the knife-twisting genius of "men such as [Henrik] Ibsen" as his inspiration. "Since early boyhood I have been drawing," he says, "Anything I heard about I tried to put in situations on paper [...] I remember I loved the Chinese drawings and carvings in my mother's room. My artistic wandering started with the early Italians over Persia, India, to China." Though he was one of the most prominent illustrators out there, he did have some posthumously released works, like A Thousand and One Nights, (1917-1919):

Scheherezade kneeling before the king, from Nielsen's illustrations for A Thousand and One Nights, circa 1917 to 1919, published posthumously.

Call us biased, but it's Nielsen's bluer hues that tug on our heartstrings the most...

Kay Nielsen, 1914.

Kay Nielsen, 1914

Kay Nielsen, 1914.

Kay Nielsen 1914.

There's an equal sense of tranquility and intrigue in those nightfall scenes. The feeling that something wonderful, albeit with a streak of the wicked, is on its way. And isn't that what makes for the most memorable fairytales? Just ask the OG Little Mermaid, in which our gal ends up stabbing herself, or the blatant child-munching of Hansel and Gretel. We've got a whole compendium f*cked up bedtime stories. Nielsen just had an instinct for making that (bitter) sweet spot shine.

TASCHEN's centenary reproduction of East of the Sun and West of the Moon revives a classic collection of 15 Norse folktales illustrated by the beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen.

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Oh, Disney, You Never Should Have Fired Kay Nielsen

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Kay Nielsen knew his way around a fantasy. The Danish illustrator was raised in a "tense atmosphere of art" (his words) during the Golden Era of Illustration - a time when folks one-upped each another with books bearing golden spines and marbled end papers; elaborately illustrated copies of Grimm's

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trolls/garden creatures

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Miniature Worlds

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bringing creative play into the garden

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cords for playground lines?

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children's memories in gardens

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wishing trees

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A Wishing Tree is an individual tree which has been chosen specifically and is used as an object of wishes and offerings. Such trees are identified as possessing a special religious or spiritual value.

People will come to these trees and make offerings to have a wish granted, or a prayer heard. Generally people make offerings by hanging trinkets, colorful ribbons and fabrics, or writing wishes on small pieces of paper and hanging them from the tree.

Wishing Trees are found in many different cultures around the world and although the specific rituals differ from one country to the next, what all Wishing Trees have in common is that of being places where people reconnect with what truly matters to them.

Wishing Trees in Turkey

Wishing Trees (Dilek Ağacı) have a long history in Turkish folklore and in rural areas in Turkey people still visit "wishing trees" to tie fabric tokens or paper tags with wishes and reflections written on them onto branches, left as ziyaret (pilgrimage) offerings for the visitor's dreams to come true.

You can see them all over Turkey - easily recognisable by their many colourful pieces of cloths and scarves tied around their branches in rural areas. In some places, you may also see nazar hung from Wishing Trees.

Traditionally it is the young single girls of marriageable age who would go there to make a wish - usually for a handsome husband - by tying their scarves around the branches while making their wish. This practice itself is not a part of Islamic culture.

Wishing trees in the UK

In the UK, as well as Wishing Trees with ribbons and notes, you will see coins hammered into old trees.

According to beliefs that date back to the beginning of the 18th century, if a sick person pressed a coin into the tree, their illness would go away. It was also thought that if a person pulled out a coin, they would become ill. It's also been said that it brings fortune and once the coin was driven past the bark, they would be granted a wish.

Although there are many mysterious Coin Wishing Trees in the UK, you will still see trees with ribbons and notes dotted around if you keep an eye open.

We found this Wishing Tree in the garden of a house near Hadleigh Park in Essex - and had to leave a wish.

Local Wishing Trees

If you look carefully when you're out and about in Fethiye and surrounding areas, you may see a Wishing Tree or two. Have you come across any in Fethiye?.

Next time you see a Wishing Tree, why not give it a try?

Sources - Wikipedia/Nomadic Son/urnabios.com/ allthatsinteresting.com

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The fascinating culture of Wishing Trees - Fethiye Times

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A Wishing Tree is an individual tree which has been chosen specifically and is used as an object of wishes and offerings. Such trees are identified as possessing a special religious or spiritual value. People will come to these trees and make offerings to have a wish granted, or a prayer heard.

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Sprouting edges

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coins in trees, look like type of mushroom - tree like this in highgate

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The old coins that park employees found wedged into trees weren't the result of saving gone awry. Instead, they were fundamental to the history of Britain's Wishing Trees.

Most people have tossed a coin into a fountain, or dropped a penny down a wishing well, hoping by some miracle that the act would make their wish come true. In the touristy village of Portmeirion, located in Gwynedd, North Wales, staff noticed some peculiar trees covered with coins. By examining the trees and learning their origin, the employees brought to light information about the traditions and superstition surrounding wishing trees.

Beginning with their discovery of a felled, coin-coated tree, employees quickly noticed seven more nearby and thus began their investigation. Eventually they found out that townspeople and tourists were following the centuries-old tradition of using the trees as wishing trees.

According to beliefs that date back to the beginning of the 18th century, one could rid herself of an illness by sticking a coin into a wishing tree so that the tree would assume the illness. If a person pulled one of the wishing tree's coins out, he would become ill. Others thought that they would be granted a wish once the coin was driven past the bark and into the tree's wood.

At Portmeirion, the coins are found in beech and holly trees, both of which are sturdy and difficult to press into. Coin wishing trees have also popped up in other parts of England and in other European countries. Modern takes on the wishing tree includes hanging trinkets, colorful fabrics or written wishes and worries from the branches. The wishing tree concept is one that has existed in much of the world.

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The Fascinating History Of Great Britain's Wishing Trees

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Most people have tossed a coin into a fountain, or dropped a penny down a wishing well, hoping by some miracle that the act would make their wish come true. In the touristy village of Portmeirion, located in Gwynedd, North Wales, staff noticed some peculiar trees covered with coins.

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Play with scale

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bird houses/tiny houses - play with scale

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using everyday objects

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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simplified geometrics

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weaving inspired by Beatrix Potter

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working in miniature

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magical gardens children's stories

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Childhood garden creatures

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Cicely Mary Barker

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collecting objects to build a new space

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indoor garden environment