There are three categories and entrants are invited to submit their photographs to one of the following titles:

• Mountains
• To The Limit
• Mountain Flora/Fauna

Last day for entries is February 1st 2010.

To read more go to:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=2382

Si Homfray (photographer) and Ben Carpenter (navigator) spent a whole day covering the Snowdonia National Park from the air. Zig Zagging their way over all the Welsh mountain summits they produced a series of 1500 photographs.  Due to external pressures to fly, perhaps before we were ready, for the most part the mountains were moody, misty and possibly even malevolent. Unlike the picture postcard series for the Lakes and the Peak District they are interesting and worthy but not uber sunny. Perhaps this is all part of some greater force, but for now it just means we will have to fly again.

Words can't really describe the sheer breadth of beauty of Snowdonia but - '...it is really beautiful and quite different to the other parks when put alongside them from this aerial viewpoint.'

More news to follow as soon as we can...

Heath and Heaven

Heath and Heaven is a Living Art project that looks at all the UK’s National Parks from an aerial perspective - a poetical insight into their captivating detail.

Part iii - Snowdonia National Park

First sortie - 17th September - Summer 2009 A flight over the Snowdonia National Park completing the first trilogy of work for the Heath and Heaven project.

Sponsor details to be confirmed.

Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year is proud to be a Principal Sponsor of WildPhotos 2009, which takes place on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 October at the Royal Geographical Society, London. The event is a unique opportunity to view and discuss the work of the world’s finest nature photographers, including a keynote presentation from Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols.
 
2008 Wildlife Photographer of Year category winner Brian Skerry gives his feedback on last year’s event.
“I thoroughly enjoyed the entire event and made many new friends. In fact I can honestly say that the time I spent in London, between Wildlife Photographer of the Year and WildPhotos, remains one of the finest experiences of my career!...I feel privileged to have presented lectures. I very much hope to be part of all of these things again soon.”
 
Online delegate registration is now open. There are a limited number of places for this event, and tickets will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Register now
Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition on tour

Al Ain National Museum, Abu Dhabi, UAE
After its debut at the Natural History Museum the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition tours around the globe, inspiring thousands to see the world with new eyes.
 

wildphoto@nhm.ac.uk
 

A new SEAS Festival Programme is now available. The festival begins on 24th September and it has a range of events, installations and social events offering something for everyone. Go to Cultivatewebsite to find out more and to register for the festival or click here for the latest festival programme.
 
Highlights include The Kiss and Waste Project,Monday in the Sun, Beer Tourist, Nightscene and many more.

Lunchtime Café Cityscape discussions with international guests and SEAS artists, plus DJ Dogus Bitecik from Turkey headlining at the SEAS Club for late night sounds.

Special midweek accommodation deals available at Butlins.
 
 

Further information visit:
www.cultivate-em.com/projects
                                    

Wirksworth Festival 11-26 September

Wirksworth Festival’s Art & Architecture Trail this weekend (12 & 13 September) brings an ambitious and exhilarating mix of cutting edge contemporary art, music, crafts and performance to fill every space in the town.

Modernism and Architecture, Illumination and Animation are the focus for visual arts. Using traditional and new media, there is an emphasis on contemporary art in public spaces. As dusk falls lightworks and illuminated work in shop windows will bring work excitingly to life. Derbyshire artist Charles Monkhouse makes spectacular lightworks, and his Market Square Horizon installation consists of 360 lights fixed to buildings surrounding the square. Video work includes the vibrantly colourful Spatial Weaves video by Martyn Blundell, which will be projected onto a gable end in the Market Place, alternating with video work by Lorenzo Madge.

An illuminated shed of lightworks by Nottingham based artist Raphael Daden will occupy the Memorial Gardens, and shop windows all over town will be displaying new illuminated works specially commissioned by the Festival from rising young East Midlands artists. Michael Branthwaite has made a radical Modernist intervention to a field barn at the National Stone Centre.

With over 100 artists exhibiting, there will be new and exciting things to see in every corner of the town this weekend. Private homes of every shape and size, churches, gardens, and streets will be filled with art.

Main Galleries will be open throughout the Festival period, showing new, specially commisioned or curated work. They include the large gallery space of Newbridge Works where Matthew Houlding will be exhibiting architectural models of imaginary Modernist Utopian buildings, alongside work from emerging new artists, the best of the Fine Art graduates from across the region. Also in Newbridge will be a retrospective of work by local artist Peter Hoon, who died last year. The new Carpet Shop Gallery on St John’s Street will show Alec Finlay’s ongoing project word-mapping the Peak District alongside Maxine Hall’s photos of local people taken last year. In the Parish Room Ben Cove will be showing recent work ranging through sculpture and painting to video installation, and new graduates from Nottingham Trent University Decorative Arts programme will be exhibiting work that includes millinery, glass, porcelain, ceramics, fabrics and wall-coverings.

St Mary’s Church has Glossop-artist Ghislaine Howard’s powerful paintings, while at the Heritage Centre Kate Genver celebrates the skill and ingenuity of Derbyshire farmers with a body of work investigating homemade tools and technologies.

The Makers’ Market crammed with lucious covetable craftworks returns to the Town Hall and the Memorial Hall, accompanied this year by a specially-selected exhibition of contemporary ironworks.

There’s a performance programme to rock your socks off running throughout the Festival, and a second weekend of guided art walks and artist talks.

Full programme and online box office on the Festival website www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk, or enquiries to the office on 01629 824003

image © steve messam 2009 from an original engraving in the Cumbria Archive, Kendal Library

Fleur de Sel

Ullswater, Glenridding, Cumbria. UK
3rd - 6th September 2009

You are cordially invited by the artists Hannah Stewart and Steve Messam to preview ‘Fleur de Sel’ - an installation on Ullswater, the Lake District, UK.
3rd September 2009 from 11am - 12.30pm
Jenkin's Field (next to Ullswater Steamer Pier), Glenridding, Cumbria.

Fleur de Sel will officially be launched by Richard Leafe, Chief Executive, the Lake District National Park Authority

Light refreshments will be served.

Boats will be available to see the artwork from the water .

R.S.V.P. to:
Sandra Wood
swood@cumbriatourism.org
01539 825006

 
Fleur de Sel:


Fleur de Sel is an installation of large pure white forms floating on the water of Ullswater in the Lake District, created by rural artistsSteve Messam and Hannah Stewart. The title, Fleur de Sel, reflects the delicate light salt crystals, which can be skimmed off the surface of seawater and references Venice’s earliest industry. Each form is made from silk and lace parasols and are in various stages of apparent decay. The line of forms creates a visual and theoretical line through the heart of the Lake District to Venice where the piece was premiered at the Venice Biennale.
The forms are inspired by a very English view of Venice - that of the Grand Tour where the parasol becomes an icon of the need to protect the delicate English complexion from the sun and an important marker of cultural identity. Venice and Cumbria share a number of points of community - their role in the birth of ‘tourism’ and their association with water and its industries.
Victorian art and architecture critic John Ruskin lived at Brantwood in the Lake District for many years. During that time he made numerous trips to Venice - the subject of his seminal work ‘The Stones of Venice’. In it Ruskin is inspired not only by the architecture of Venice, but also in the way that it decays. It is this beauty in decay which Fleur de Sel celebrates - from an almost solid ball of pure white parasols through a series of states of decay where the forms take on more flower-like appearances.
The piece can also be seen as a metaphor for the preservation of its environments - salt being one of the earliest forms of preservation. Both the Lake District and Venice are delicate balances between tourism and preservation with similar tensions between them.
Fleur de Sel celebrates 60 years of the National Parks, challenging conceptions around design and architecture in this culturally significant landscape and highlights the role that local art and culture have played in the preservation and evolution of the environment for future generations.

For more details see: www.golakes.co.uk/fleurdesel

 

An installation opposite Lomberdale Hall

by Charles Monkhouse & Sallyann Carlin
29 August 8.00 -10.00
Lomberdale Hall
Middleton-by-Youlgrave

Between Youlgrave & Middleton

GR SK 198 638

Our panel of judges will be picking winners for the three categories:

• People and Seasons in the Peak District
• People and Seasons in Rural South Yorkshire
• You and Your Friends in the Countryside (under 18s)