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The United Nations has declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity, celebrating the huge variety of life on earth and the value of biodiversity for all our lives. We rely on this diversity to provide us with food, fuel, medicine and other essentials. Yet this rich diversity is being lost at a greatly accelerated rate because of human activities. This impoverishes us all and weakens the ability of the living systems, on which we depend, to resist growing threats such as climate change. It therefore seemed appropriate for our Noah to be saving endangered species from around the world on his Ark. Consequently, the Festival invited artists from all over the world to contribute to our community opera by donating animal masks, or headdresses, that represent creatures particularly at risk in heir own region. We received positive responses from artists as far afield as Finland and Tasmania, resulting in a pretty exciting and colourful selection! The headdresses have now been auctioned off in support of Water Aid; a total amount of £1,156 has been raised. This will be used for water, sanitation and hygiene projects to enable communities to take their first steps out of poverty. All the amazing head-dresses will remain on display at the Limetree Gallery in Fort William until the end of June, and if you are in the area the Gallery is well worth a visit. You can also see the head pieces here. Some are still available for sale, but now at a fixed price. Get in touch if you would like to acquire one. All revenue will go to Water Aid. The Noye's Fludde head-dresses and contributing artists:
01 - Mexican Jaguar
SOLD
Gail Wendorf, originally from Texas, works in oils. She studied painting as a studio art major at the University of California, and then Archaeological Ilustration. She combined working as an artist and participating in archaeological fieldwork for many years before moving to Glenfinnan six years ago. Gail’s work has been exhibited at the Scotish Parliament, Kinfauns Castle, Paisley Museum of Art, and most recently, at Radio France in Paris.
02 & 03 - Golden Eagles, UK
02 - SOLD
03 - Price: £35
Sophie Mosberger graduated from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2007 with a distinction in Theatre Design. Sophie is a 2007 Linbury Prize finalist, and winner of the Royal Opera House Bursary. She is currently working as a freelance theatre designer from her base in London.
04 & 05 - Kingfishers, UK SOLD Vladimir Pamihov, Simon Poppy and Wendy Greaves all work at Oakham School’s Arts Department, England. Oakham is only a mile from Rutland Water, the reservoir with the largest surface area of water in England, and a haven for both migrating and indigenous birds. The endangered Kingfisher is occasionally seen there and was therefore a natural choice for the School’s contribution. The headdresses are the work of the art teachers who are each also artists in their own right: Vladimir sculpted the forms; Simon painted the birds and Wendy embroidered the plumage, while the school children lent an occasional hand with the papier-mâché.
06 - Eastern Barred Bandicoot, Tasmania SOLD Katherine Cooper and Lotte Kronborg are both Australian artist based at the Salamanca Centre in Hobart, Tasmania. They have worked together on the Eastern Barred Bandicoot, an endangered marsupial found only in Tasmania. Katherine’s work in watercolour/gouache and acrylic on clayboard is dedicated to raising awareness of the beauty and fragility of wildlife and the habitats in which they co-exist with humans. She creates ‘snapshots’ of what we take for granted in the natural world - what we don’t see, but could if we only allowed ourselves the time to do so. Lotte, originally from Denmark, graduated with a Diploma of Visual Arts from Swinburne University, Melbourne in 1996, and is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture at the Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania. Lotte's work is primarily sculpture/installation based, including sound, light and the moving image. 07 & 08 - Otters, Scotland SOLD Felt artist Sharon Butterfield works from her home at the southern end of Loch Shiel, in Acharacle.
09 - Common Blue Butterfly, Belgium SOLD
Elena Werner studied Fashion Design at the University of Buenos Aires and Costume Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. She started her career at the Flanders Opera, and has since worked for a long and prestigious series of artists and organisations. Elena has participated in many exhibitions in Argentina and Belgium. In 2007, she was awarded the museum prize by he Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren/Belgium for her African headdress.
10 - Purple skimmer dragonfly, Florida SOLD Patricia Berry designs and makes bespoke hats from Albert Drive Studios in Glasgow. The studio was an ideal place to set up the millinery workshop. It includes artists, textile designers, jewellers and architects all with a common thread ... to create. The idea for the Purple skimmer came from a photo I saw on the Red List web site: it is a stunning creature and very sad that its existence is vulnerable. 11 & 12 - Red Squirrels, Scotland
SOLD Suzanne Hodgshon works from her home in Hamilton. She trained as a jewellery designer and made jewellery creatures for years until motherhood made it hard to disappear into the garage to beat metal. She then decided to indulge in her other passion: Sewing. She now creates creatures in-spired by decorative fabric pieces. She loves to hand-stitch and embroider and combines recycled fabrics with new. Colour and textures and lots of pattern are a feature of her designs.
13 - Arctic Fox, Finland SOLD
Kaarina Kauhanen has worked as a craft entrepreneur for more than 12 years, based in Kiuruvesi in Finland. Her studio makes unique and high-quality hats and textile sculptures as on-off commissions, and her work is regularly exhibited at galleries and fairs throughout Finland. Kaarina’s work is often inspired by cultural and natural history.
14 - Polar Bear, Norway SOLD Anne-Britt Ravnå teaches art at Vefsn Kulturskole in Northern Norway. She runs a gallery in conjunction with her own studio and teaches a wide range of art courses for children. The polar bear was created as part of a course project for primary school children. The polar bear is found off the northern coast of Norway, on the island of Svalbard.
15 - Forty-spotted Pardalote, Tasmania SOLD Katherine Galloway is currently in her final year of a Fine Arts degree at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She is majoring in Sculpture and Photography, and would love to study overseas and work in the design industry. She chose the forty-spotted pardalote because it is endemic to only a few forests in Tasmania and is dependent on the conservation of its habitat to survive.
16 - Rainbow leaf beetle, UK SOLD Sally Sibbet is a student at Glasgow School of Art, studying Visual Communication, a department where students are actively encouraged to undertake external assignments. She had cherished the opportunity to participate in a real-world project outwith her academic sphere.
17 & 18 - Wildcats, Scotland
Price: £35 each
Suzy Devey is a textile artist working in the Highlands. She makes and designs small recycled handbags. She also works part-time at the Room 13 studio in Caol where she helps guide children into learning and developing artistic talents and creativity from the ages of 6--12 yrs. She chose to work on the wildcat as she finds it a live and adventurous animal with eyes that draw you in.
19 & 20 - Mountain hares, Scotland SOLD
Jacqueline Swanson is a local artists working from her home in Glenfinnan. Her daytime job is as a wood-worker and maintenance officer at Glenfinnan Station Museum.
20 - Orangutang, Borneo Price: £50 21 - Male Barashinga swamp deer, India SOLD
22 - Female Barashinga swamp deer, India SOLD
23 - Male black lemur, Madagascar SOLD 24 - Female black lemur, Madagascar Price: £50 25 - Panda, China SOLD 26 - Asiatic lion, India SOLD 27 - Asiatic lioness, India SOLD 28 & 29 - Hirola antelopes, Kenya Price: £50 each Felicity Feichny is one of Europe's leading milliners, specialising in design for performance and the arts, and in the teaching of millinery. Her millinery work includes designing for several Scottish fashion houses, private commissions, theatre productions and be-spoke collections for major events. Felicity's work has been displayed widely, from the Na-tional Gallery of Scotland to the Conservatoire in Saint Petersburg. Felicity is Founder Director of the highly successful HATWALK (www.hatwalk.co.uk), a spectacular theatrical event to highlight the talents of European milliners, heighten the profile of hatmaking as a vibrant and vigorous art form, and raise money for charity. Felicity lectures in millinery at Queen Margaret's University, directs the annual HATWALK Summer School Masterclasses and holds her own creative millinery workshops for private clients.Felicity was commissioned by the Festival to make the head dresses of featured endangered animals from Third World countries.
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