Common Place – everywhere means something to someone

Common Place – everywhere means something to someone

See the project’s collaborative book at Newark Works • BA2 3DZ
Opening night: 6pm until late • Fri 24 May 2024
Open 11am - 6pm daily • 25 May to 8 June 2024
Fully accessible, for full details see map : fringeartsbath.co.uk/map

Common Place aimed to bring together creatively-minded local people to explore new ways of experiencing familiar surroundings. The project's focus was the historic parkland “Moorlands Park” located in the Bloomfield area of Bath. In this post-lockdown period, our parish and park is our human-scale space in which to work. The park becomes our artist studio, our source of resources, our place to inspire, our place to work, our place to reflect and our place to escape.

We are there to capture the small scale, the sense of history and future, the love of place and the natural world. We called the project "Common Place” however after spending more time in the park, it became clearer that Moorlands Park is anything but common but an exceptional place. Creative activities included psychogeography, mapping through walking, looking in and looking out of the space, walking in the park and linking to other parks and green spaces, making in the park and making with materials found/foraged in the park,

The participants came together to create an artist book to capture a place's spirit. Walks and workshops inspired by the park are listed in the events section.

What’s next? For those interested in continuing creative work in the park during 2024/25, please contact the curator Karen Woodfield to discuss ideas and explore potential opportunities or visit @moorlandsparkbathcreative

Exhibiting Artists: Daisy Davis, Elizabeth Stafford, Felicity Bowers, Jackie Albrow, Jill Bennett, Lindsay Davis, Pam Lanning, Rosie Davis, Holly Woodward

Curated by Karen Woodfield

I am a Bath-based visual artist and keen to develop experience in co-creating and collaborative working. My art practice focuses on the creative process, materiality and experimentation. I am interested in exploring the impact of my local environment on my art. I thrive when collaborating with others and have incorporated socially engaged elements into my art practice. I look forward to working with you.

kpwoodfield1.wixsite.com/kpwoodfield / insta @karenpwoodfield