Pick up Sticks

Sticks burn

keep warm

cook food

turn into charcoal

draw

carve

weave

build shelter

throw weapon

cast shadow

tell time

Sticks in park

mangled by dogs

potential to play

or to kill

transformed by kids

potential to play

or to fight

trained

tamed

sticks on land

collected by people

for fuel

for free

for centuries

potential for ideas

and for change.

Nottingham Castle Open 2013
12 October – 10 November
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery

Artists
Selected by
Holly Slingsby, Artist & Gallery Manager, Matt’s Gallery, London – Emily Speed, Artist –
Roger Malbert, Senior Curator, Hayward Touring, London

Liam Aitken | Chloe Ashley | Andrew Bracey | Wayne Burrows | Belen Cerezo | Jacqui Dodds | Jane Domingos | Jenna Finch | Craig Fisher | Karen Fraser | Lynn Fulton | Hattrick & Sangster | Steven Ingman | Elliot Ingram | Geoffrey Jones | Daniel Sean Kelly | Maggie Lewis | Nick Mobbs | Rebecca Ounstead | Diana M Pasek-Atkinson | Faith Pearson| Yelena Popova | Dermot Punnett | Simon Raven | Bob Robinson | David Scarborough | Derek Sprawson | Tether | Marek Tobolewski | John E Walter | Jane Wheat

TRADING POST

Trading Post Events Thursday 12 December, 6.30-7.30pm and Saturday 14 December, 2- 4pm Library of Birmingham Thursday 12 December 2013, 6.30-7.30pm Matthew Raine will give a talk on Marxist Economics during which artist Faith Pearson will make a series of small sculptures available for exchange for ideas, comments and contributions from those attending. Matthew Raine is an active Unison member and member of the Socialist Worker Party. Faith Pearson, who proposed this event, is an artist based in Birmingham whose recent work explores ideas about potential use and value both practical and imaginative. The work she will produce during the talk alludes to the 1830′s Wood Theft Laws in Germany which stopped the traditional right of peasants from colleting dead wood on private land and led Karl Marx to develop his ideas around economics.