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CABIN FEVER, Artcore Artist in Residence, Nicki Dennett

19th April 2021
Cabin Fever Small stories, Big News All set up for the Cabin Fever Artcore residency. It was lovely to meet the other artist in residence, Poet, Dan Webber, who has done a fantastic job of making the cabin very colourful with his poetic text sprayed all around the outside and spilling onto the pavement. Now I invite you to participate in my project which is part of the Artcore residency, Cabin Fever, in association with DCC. Please come along to the cabin and share your story. Create a small piece of artwork that is inspired by your own experience of the lockdowns. The artwork we make together will be small, in contrast to Dans big bold work, no bigger than A6 and can be text, type, collagraph, monoprint, screen print, tapestry, lino print, a short film telling your story, a drawing, a painting, or if you are an artist who has a specific medium and materials to make the work please do that. You can book for an hour workshop (which is free) where you will be able to learn a technique to make your piece of art. Artwork made by participants will be left at the cabin with the intention of publishing the work in a magazine/book/e-book alongside your story.  When the book is published, time depending on funding, participants will get a free copy. If you are interested in taking part please email me at: nicola.dennett@btinternet.com or call at The Cabin, The old Stand, Osnabruck Square, Derby between 12 and 4 Wednesday, Thursday or Friday
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Cabin Fever Residency – The Derby Witness – We are open!

16th April 2021
The first full day of the residency has been amazing, not only as it was the first time meeting my Artist in residence partner Nicki, but also to see the artwork filling the space and people's interactions as the walk past the Cabin. This weekend I will be continuing to spray the lines of text across the Cabin walls, before 'bleeding them out' onto the floor surrounding the space over the coming weeks. I can't wait to see how the visuals shifts and changes over the residency! Maybe it's not the end of the world Dan Webber -  16/04/21 (Image courtesy of Sonia Burns)
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Cabin Fever Residency – The Derby Witness – Set Up – 14/04/21

14th April 2021
First commissioned as part of Derby Feste 2020, The Derby Witness is poetry and street art project created in response to the first Coronavirus lockdown. Comprising of 49 lines of text, submitted by Derby and Derbyshire residents, summing up their thoughts and experiences during this time. One line of text for each day of the first lockdown. The aspect of the project I proudest of, is shamefully the thing I have become most immune to, which is the impact of the lines of text included in the work. One of the joys of setting up for the Cabin Fever residency was seeing and hearing the reaction of people as they walked past the space, discovering line after line and beginning to discuss it, sharing their thoughts and taking pictures for their social media. The lines represent a snap-shot of a conversation or a fragment of thought, and during the residency these lines will be sprayed over and over again, spilling out onto the ground surrounding the space, building up ‘the great cloud of witness’ (Hebrews 12:1) which inspired the work. It is a divisive piece dealing with a difficult subject matter, but I hope during the residency people who see the work will find a line of text they can relate to, and hopefully be inspired to add their lines to the project. Care. Cry. Fight. Survive. #TheDerbyWitness
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