News
Friday, 30 April 2010
The Bullpen: The Family Run Rural Arts Centre
The Bullpen is a family-run rural arts centre, based in Stanford in the Vale, Oxfordshire. Over the five years since its creation, The Bullpen has undergone an amazing transformation. Thanks to recent grant funding, as well as ongoing support from the local community, Helen, Wesley, Keith and Beth Jacobs have been able to develop the site so that it now includes gallery, studio and workshop space, all in addition to the foundry itself.
Workshops for artists are held throughout the year in the foundry, and The Bullpen also runs an active programme for visitors (including book-binding, felt making and art history).
SUMMER WORKSHOP: West African Bronze Casting Workshop
Saturday 15th May – Saturday 22nd May
The first of The Bullpen’s 2010 summer events will be the West African Bronze Casting Workshop in May – it will explore traditional mould-making and casting using materials found on the farm, such as buffalo dung, clay, straw and sand. The experimental course is for practising artists to make moulds, prepare a pit furnace and finally cast their own bronze sculptures.
If you would like to participate in a visitor (beginners) workshop, and make your own small bronze item in a cuttlefish-bone mould, please contact The Bullpen (http://www.thebullpen.co.uk) to book a place.
SUMMER WORKSHOP: Mouldmaking & Cast Iron Sculpture
Saturday 5th June - Saturday 12th June (Public Iron Pour on 12th June)
Iron Casting Workshop including a public event on 12th: visit the Bullpen and watch molten iron being poured from the furnace into moulds, it is spectacular!
SUMMER EXHIBITION: Muck Matters
Sunday 16th May – Saturday 31st July 2010
This summer, The Bullpen will be showing Muck Matters, an exhibition of sculpture & moulds. This show is a teaching exhibition with an emphasis on how sculpture is made.
SHORT WORKSHOP PROGRAMME AND STUDIOS
Visit The Bullpen website for news, events, workshops and exhibitions. The new short workshop programme (open to all) includes: bookbinding, ragrug making, feltmaking, seasonal crafts etc.
