Burnett & Catt - Flight of Fancy - Grassington Festival Curlews

In honour of the Curlews that flock to Grassington every spring, the festival team have arranged for artists to decorate fibre glass birds to adorn the village throughout the festival. All the birds will be auctioned off at the end. We've had a couple of them nesting in the workshop. This is Curlicue (complete with rollers) and Frieda Curlew (day of the dead), hanging from the workshop ceiling waiting for an extra coat of varnish, all very undignified. They're now fully fledged and waiting to be legged and planted somewhere in Grassington. Please look at the website and see what else is happening at the festival.
http://www.grassington-festival.org.uk

Burnett & Catt - Carnival continued....with a special preview of Miss Milky Ways 'chopper' in progress

More images from the workshop - 3 weeks to the carnival. We're especially excited about ''Miss Milky Way's" telescopic pushbike in progress - think we're going to have to rethink her crinoline though and maybe go for some diamante cycling shorts.

Burnett & Catt Floats - Moon Balloon & Silly Planets in progress

Workshop images of the latest work on the carnival. We've been burning the midnight oil making bizarre asteroids and planets for the 'big bang' float and have made a start on the moon balloon float that will transport the 'moon hare' around the parade circuit. The strange dalek looking structures on the second set of pictures are the moon balloons telescopic eyes (one for each side).

Burnett and Catt - workshop images, floats in progress

work in progress for the Carnival Parade.

Burnett & Catt Lord Mayors Carnival Designs Bradford 2009

Its Bradford Lord Mayors Carnival on June 20th. This year the theme is Astronomy /space to coincide with International year of Astronomy. Here are our initial drawings for this years floats and costumes. The bottom graphic will be the carnival logo.

Minor Repairs, Exhibition at Brahm Gallery - flyer

Brahm Gallery Exhibition - Minor Repairs

I have at new exhibition opening at Brahm Gallery in Leeds on Wednesday. Here's some new textile work which will be in the show. Will hopefully get some better shots when the work is hung.

Burnett & Catt, Primrose High School campaign workshop

We spent a day at Primrose High School in Leeds working on a campaign of the students choice. The day was organised by Thackeray Museum. Our group were fantastic and chose to make a piece about bullying. They worked really hard and produced a huge wall piece / installation with some large scale aticulated 'puppets'. We're converting their work into poster sections and hopefully these will be displayed in the museum soon.

Holmfirth Tiger mosaic images

The Holmfirth mosaic telling the story of Fenella the tiger was unveiled last week. I made it to the opening. It was a lovely do with circus cakes and tiger shaped helium balloons although I failed miserably to get any decent photos of the finished piece. So here are some sectional shots of it before I delivered it.

Poison Exhibition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

10 March - 13 September 2009

Poison: Morwenna Catt

All toys earn scars from children’s careless love, but these bunnies tell stories of more purposeful abuse. Provoking adult empathy Catt’s Tim Burton esque stuffed toys are explained in her ‘Poison’ series of acrylic and hand stitched canvases.

Morwenna Catt was a prize-winner of the recent Flesh exhibition held at the Yorkshire Craft Gallery. Late opening night Friday 17 April.

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Lister Park
Bradford
BD9 4NS

telephone 01274 431212

Opening Times

Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 1 - 5pm Closed: Mondays

http://www.bradfordmuseums.org/cartwrighthall/