At last after biting our nails about fundraising the Heritage Lottery fund came through and the project begins 9/8/2011. Thank you Heritage Lottery Fund! Jack Welch a lead volunteer in the conception of the project and Dorset Youth Association fundraiser Aimee Malcolm collaborate on the Heritage Lottery fund press release. Jack, “It’s been more or less getting stuck in after all our planning.”
She also told us about a Neil Cummings organic time line she saw at the Arnolfini gallery Bristol thinking it might inspire our Dorset youth club time line that will feature in our exhibition next July 2012 in Dorset County Museum.
I followed it up. I’m the project worker Lorna Johnson who helped create the project with the six original volunteers and will be assisting the group of volunteers, now about 18 of them, deliver the project. I went to see it and shared it with the group who thought it was interesting too. Check it out, it has different colour coded threads running through it, helping the history of the gallery be linked to key changes and ideas in the world and developments in the city it grew up in, allowing surprising connections to be made. http://www.neilcummings.com/content/self-portrait-1-installation
