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/

Holmfirth Project, Fenella the Tiger

I'm working on a project with Huddersfield Arts and Libraries to produce a piece of artwork for the interior of Holmfirth Library based on Fenella the Tiger. Fenella moved to Holmfirth when the Second World war broke out. She was brought to England by a circus family and lived in their house like an oversized house cat, she was best mates with a carthorse and liked a walk round Holmfirth being patted by the local kids and a nice bag of chips from the local chippy. So far I've I've worked with the reception and year 1 classes at Holmfirth Primary School to produce their own mosaic called 'tiger tales' to put on the wall in their school. The children became tigers for an afternoon and photos of their tigery faces will be used behind glass as a border in the larger piece I'm making for the library. Theres a rough sketch of the piece I'm producing above, it combines mosaic, photographs and painting. At the top theres a photo of Fenella lounging on her favourite sofa.

Burnett & Catt - Middleton Youth Inclusion Murals

Burnett & Catt project with Middleton Youth Inclusion, Leeds. We worked with local teenagers from Middleton to produce five 8ft by 4ft paintings on panels to cheer up the exterior of the centre. The results are above.