Paul Bradley : Art : Community Development

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The Legends Project

A collaborative community art project, made almost entirely out of cardboard!

A group of creative people from the Hutt Valley have been working with artist and facilitator Paul Bradley to create artworks on the theme of personal and cultural legends and heroes. With Sharmila Pillay, Yasanthi Subasinghe, Rowel Madrisa, Helen Williamson, Jojo Garcia Jowett, Mecca Garcia Bowman, Maxine Edwards, Catherine Green, Steve Burroughs and Graham Wolf.

Celebrating love, strength and courage.

Please check www.hvca.org.nz or call 04 5683488 for weekly
opening times or check the door sign.

Catchment Community

I am the arts facilitator for Catchment Community. This is a community lead art project based in Happy Valley in Wellington. The site is next to the old Bagel Factory on Happy Valley Road next to the Owhiro Bay Stream. The project is open to whoever wants to be involved. We aim to complete the creative process by the end of 2011, and to have the artwork(s) built and installed by February 2012. We are running this project to strengthen the local community, provide an opportunity to connect with an important piece of land and stream, and to create a destination - a place for people to enjoy and spend time.

We believe that community lead projects are important as the outcome will benefit from the diversity of people involved. The artwork will be relevant to the site, to local communities, and to those involved in the process.

What will we make? At this stage we don’t know! This is because the artwork will come out of a facilitated process. In other words, the people involved will decide.

We are in the beginning stages of this project, so please feel free get in touch with us if you would like to be involved.

For more information, and the most recent news regarding this project, please visit the blog.

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Live Drawing with The Mamaku Project

This summer I have been performing live drawing visuals with The Mamaku Project. I make one drawing per song, layering it up with textural loops and projecting it onto a big screen. Here’s a little sample for you.
(takes a little while to start playing after you click on it depending on your connection)

DIS-CHORD

An exhibition of new painting.

29th Nov - 11 December at Deluxe Cafe, 10 Kent Street, Wellington, New Zealand.

This new series continues my visual exploration of the growing unease of my relationship to our environment which I experience as both blissfully beautiful and yet foreign and damaged. Through these paintings I am questioning the place that we have in this world - our connection and disconnection with what sustains us.

If you are in Wellington, join me on Monday 29th November from 5.30pm for a drink and of course lots of paintings. All are welcome.

Mental Health Awareness Week Poster

If you live in New Zealand you might be seeing this artwork around over the next while in the form of posters and postcards. The posters and postcards feature my illustration. In creating the artwork I was focusing on elements of wellness including community and personal connections, good physical health, creativity, and a connection with nature and the outdoors.

The graphic design was done by the talented Rose Miller at Toolbox in Wellington.

ReGeneration Mural Project Complete!

I’ve been working as a facilitator with local Wellington schools, the City Arts team at Wellington City Council, the Brooklyn community, and Enviroschools, to plan and design a mural. This project was a community collaborative process open to all who wanted to contribute.

This project involved submissions from students at schools throughout the Wellington region. A core group of teenagers were involved at every step with decision making. A detailed description of this project and the community involvement process is available here.

And, if you are in Wellington, this is where you can visit the mural.

If you are in Wellington, you can visit the mural here.