LA BORDÉE DE BRANCHAGE

BRANCHAGE FILM FESTIVAL

COD FISH BALL

Each year, one of the celebratory events during the film festival is the Bordée on the Saturday night. Each year has a different theme and this year's was all things sub-aqua. I was part of the creative team which produced set, props and costumes: Giant clam shells, coral, pearls, bubbles, under sea mountains, mermaids and jellyfish.

A magnificent marimba player opens the evening

A smack of jellyfish

 Miss Seal-a Black introduces "Blind Date"

The Coral Queens perform a seaweed fan dance

Angler fish freak out

Sultry Miss Molly and her Swing Band

Busby Berkeley Pearls

BRANCHAGE SHOP WINDOW PROJECT

September 2014

Branchage Film Festival is a wonderful event showing a huge variety of fascinating films in unconventional venues; churches, National Trust properties and Heritage sites. This year, it's fifth on the island, local artists were invited to interpret either Branchage as a whole or one of the many fantastic films. I chose "La Planète Sauvage" an incredible surreal animation directed by René Laloux. I was particularly drawn to the rich colour and textured surface of the drawings. I one of the scenes, the bodies of seated figures dissolve and change shape which is what inspired the "mobile" construction of my piece. 

MATISSE INSPIRED

At d'Auvergne School I went to create some display boards. The Year 2s drew sea creatures inspired by photographs and the shapes were used as templates. At Open Evening children and parents were invited to paint and print coloured textures onto lining paper from which the creatures were then cut out. The boards were inspired by the Matisse Cut-Out exhibition in London.

Letter press

Letter press

Fishing Off Corbiere

 

Voracious mermaid chasing her lunch, printed on an old map

artwork

Artwork for a new print