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BEYOND WORDS - Kernow Kosovan Connection
Port Isaac, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Aim
This project is about two small communities, one in Cornwall, one in Kosovo connecting and supporting each other through the arts.
Embodying the Cornish motto, One and All, this project is about two communities connecting through creating shared artworks.
The project will involve artists and volunteers in Port Isaac and Pristina, Kosovo, who will work with local schools and communities to create small and large scale print works which explore the human values of harmony, integrity, love, friendship and togetherness.
We will create a giant multi-layered canvas, which everyone in each community will contribute to and these will be made into a limited edition set of prints which will be signed and framed and exhibited in both villages.
Our community and school has a long established relationship with Kosovo through two writers who live in Port Isaac and also in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.
A group of professional Cornish artists, who are experienced in community work and have delivered projects from the Isles of Scilly to Italy, have been invited to create a piece of art work which expresses the threads of connection, strands and layers that weave these places together.
Using the resist-method of patterning, which is a global textile technique that builds pattern and colour into fabric, using local materials. The subsequent layering of this process, using local peoples stories and imagery, creates a rich, multifaceted, visually stimulating end product.
The work we have planned in both communities will focus on designing signs and symbols which can be printed and applied to canvas and express something we can share about the place where we all live .These non-verbal, easy to understand shapes and marks will be taken and worked up into one collaborative piece.
We have a well established programme of Art Talks plus a Historical archive which will also share and record the work as part of the villages history .
Throughout this project we will be carefully documenting, photographing and filming the process, to show how the work has impacted each area.
Limited edition of prints will be created, which will be given to local schools and community buildings.
This project will appeal to the whole of both communities including the young and old, and those who continue to support the Kosovo Connection.
A limited edition print of the combined Kosovan and Kernow artwork will be presented to the school and village hall.
The project will show how two communities have reached out to each other , overcoming the language barrier by using the power of art.
This project successfully funded on 9th May 2023