Local Perspectives

We now have a venue for our exhibition - 7 Jordangate Macclesfield, the old CoOp pharmacy - many thanks to my good friend Chris Southworth for allowing us to use the space.

Artists showing:

Tom Baskeyfield

Dan Chaloner

Fiona McKillop

Jonny Mellor

Steve Smith

Local Perspectives

Well, the Barnaby Festival was a great success. I think for anyone who has lived in Macclesfield for any period of time they will never have experienced anything like it. Personally, I have lived in Macclesfield practically my whole life and have never seen the town so alive. It was wonderful!

We had a great preview night, no time for taking pictures though unfortunately. Next time we'll have to give that job to someone. The weekend itself was surprisingly busy - between 200 & 250 people passed through the door over Saturday and Sunday, much to our amazement.

Hope you enjoy taking a look at the pictures that follow. Some are not that great admittedly, but I think they represent the exhibition reasonably well.

Fiona McKillop - Video

Jonny Mellor - Abstract paintings

Steve Smith - Figurative paintings

Tom Baskeyfield - Drawings

L-R: Untitled, Jonny Mellor, 2008, acrylic, plaster, spray-paint on canvas; Topographical Dissection, Tom Baskeyfield, 2010 (as below); 8mins52secs, Fiona McKillop, 2006, single channeled video looped, 8m52, broadcast monitor, DVD player, wires, shoes, toys, rubbish, polyfilla, acrylic.

Topographical Dissection (detail) Tom Baskeyfield, 2010, gesso, acrylic, emulsion, permanent marker, pencil on MDF

L-R: Untitled, Jonny Mellor, 2010 (as below); Untitled, Jonny Mellor, 2008 (as above); Tom Baskeyfield (as above)

Untitled, Jonny Mellor, acrylic on canvas

Town. Boundaries. Lie of the Land, Tom Baskeyfield, 2010, gesso, acrylic, emulsion, permanent marker, pencil on chipboard

Untitled, Jonny Mellor, 2010, acrylic on canvas

Untitled, Steve Smith, 2009, acrylic on canvas

I Used To Think Drowning Was Romantic, Fiona McKillop, 2009, multi channel video looped, 3 x 14" televisions, DVD players, wires, pint glasses, painted stool

Topographical Dissection 1. photogram on tracing paper; Topographical Dissection 2. photocopy and ink on tracing paper; Topographical Dissection 3. photocopy and ink on tracing paper, Tom Baskeyfield, 2010 (photocopies Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. All rights reserved)

Untitled, Steve Smith, 2007, framed prints

Untitled, Jonny Mellor, 2010, acrylic, plaster, oil on canvas

Thank you to everyone who came.

Any comments are most welcome.

First post - MACCLESFIELD BARNABY FESTIVAL

Hello, welcome to The Common Project blog!

There is not much to write about at present, much of what The Common Project is about exists as ideas, but come the weekend of the 18th, 19th and 20th of June those ideas will have their first outing as that is the weekend of the MACCLESFIELD BARNABY FESTIVAL!!!

Over that weekend we will be putting on an exhibition in the town, which will showcase new work by a range of local artists working in a variety of different disciplines. Over the coming weeks I will post more information regarding the exhibition, important stuff like: where it is on, when it will open, and of course most importantly, who's going to be showing in it! So please check back often!

In the mean time if you would like to know more about the Barnaby Festival, please follow the link on the right hand side of this page.

Many thanks,

Tom