Noon to Moon
Noon to Moon – the festival’s annual open air visual art Installation.
About
Head to Kensington gardens where you can view ‘By the Light of the Moon’, a vibrant installation that transforms Kensington Gardens into an open-air gallery with work from local and regional artists, plus contributions from the creative talents of community groups and schools.
This year Noon to Moon is curated by Alexander Costello, award-winning sculptor, performance and video artist, with work also being shows at Alex’s 303 Projects Contemporary Art Gallery on London Road South, just a stone’s throw from the Festival site and in the garden of East Point Pavilion.
Alexander Costello
An award winning sculptor, video and performance artist. Ideas and work are generated through the challenging and exposing the everyday absurdity of perceived normality. The misinterpretation and miscommunication of the language of action and form support and bring balance to endeavours.
Les Bicknell
Les creates work that communicates with people and leaves space for the viewer, to enable them to stop and reflect.
Jo Hincks
A professional artists working independently and collaboratively with Gary Hincks. Jo studied Fine Art at Leicester and Goldsmiths College of Art; a painter, printmaker and creator of three dimensional vessels.
Gary Hinkcs
Gary Hincks trained in Graphic Design at Leicester College of Art and went on to specialise in Earth Science illustration working for the Natural History Museum, the BBC, National Geographic. Plus a thirty year collaboration and friendship with Scottish poet and conceptual artist Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Martin Fidler
Martin Fidler’s art practice is in sculpture and painting. Since doing an MA in experimental painting at the Slade he has had a career in lecturing, teaching and theatre design. Fidler’s knowledge of art history, painting and sculpture has helped him to develop a keen sense of
observation, imagination and inventiveness in his painted scuptures. There is a strong maritime theme in Fidler’s work because of working with the Scottish poet and ‘concrete’ artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. Fidler’s previous First Light festival renderings are literally ‘ Out of the Blue’ ;
the painted toy like wooden constructions on a domestic level invite and engaging serious playfulness. As well as having work in public and private collections Fidler enjoys collaborative projects with other artists, writers and poets which has led to him leading public walking talking workshops often covering topics on social history. The word and image book with its cross fertilisation of ideas and responses called ‘The Story So Far’ still remains in the world’s top one hundred comic books.
Neil Hanger
Neil Hanger uses found objects, words and phrases. His work is open to free association and interpretation, marrying meaning with form. Treading a line somewhere between graphic design, fine art and concrete poetry. He invites us to play with the words as puzzles and conundrums and to continue to engage with them, metaphorically turning them around and again in our mind’s eye.
Rebecca Riess
Rebecca Riess has recently had solo shows at 303 Projects, The Art Station, Panrucker Gallery, and Firstsite, Colchester. Her practice involves drawing, painting, sculpture and stitching. She lives and works in Suffolk.
Emily Cannell
Emily is an artist living and working in Ipswich, Suffolk. She uses new and recycled textiles with sculptural properties to re-imagine places and objects – exploring themes of transformation and repurposing – working across sculpture, photography, collage and installation.
Lee Grandjean
Born London 1949. Waltham Forest Tech and Sch of Art 1967-68. Winchester Sch of Art 1968-71. Shoreditch studio 1972-77. Greenwich studio Old LEB Building 1977-1980. Living and working in Moor Farm, Norfolk since 1980 to present.
Hayley Field
Hayley Field studied at Chelsea School of Art and has lived and worked in Suffolk for over 20 years. Drawing from observations, ideas and experience, she connects inner and outer worlds, exploring tension, contrast and control. Her interest in colour and composition extends beyond drawing and painting to make installations from modular pieces of work, here she finds freshness through re-configuration, new narratives and dynamic relationships.
Poppy Jackson
Jackson makes work exploring the female body as an autonomous zone. Her performances, paintings, sculptures and prints focus on public space in relation to the body. Presented across the UK, Europe and America, Jackson’s work has sparked discussion worldwide on the body in art.
Sue Manville & Deborah Watkins
Sue Manville & Deborah Watkins Jones are a collaborative duo who work within a company of trained dancers working in Suffolk.
The company draws on an interest in place, space and relationships the inspiration for choreographic work, looking at how they affect us & our movement as humans.
The images for Noon to Moon were taken in Kensington gardens to reflect responses to the place.
Tim Cross
Tim is a Suffolk based ceramicist with delusions of grandeur and a love of 18th century porcelain.
Tim also teaches ceramics at Lowestoft Studio Ceramics, and is creative director at Studio 42 east.
Friends of Kensington Gardens
Members of the volunteer gardening group in Kensington Gardens the host of the art trail. This is their second year presenting a piece in the gardens, and find this an enjoyable challenge to represent the group.
Lucy Smith
Lucy is interested in how we can apply creative thinking to solve problems that enable us to take risks and imagine better ways of being in the future. Her current practice is a playful invitation to move, interact, connect, balance, collaborate and co-create.
Tricia Hall
Tricia Hall is a Norwich based artist working predominantly in sculptural practice. Tricia has an MA Fine Art (Distinction) and a BA Hons Fine Art (First Class) from Norwich University of the Arts. She has exhibited regionally and is currently taking part in the MASS Sculpture Programme.
Telfer Stokes
Telfer Stokes, born in St Ives, Cornwall in 1940, studied at the Slade School of Fine Art before winning a Beckman Fellowship to Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1962.
After a disappointing 1971 Serpentine Gallery show, he returned to New York, where the idea of artist books was born. Back in London, he founded Weproductions, later collaborating with Helen Douglas at Deuchar Mill in the Scottish Borders, where he published and printed nineteen books between 1972 and 2002. In 2004 he moved to Suffolk, began making metal sculptures — first shown at Kettle’s Yard in 2008 — and continues working daily at his Lowestoft workshop.
Danielle Morgan
Danielle is a mum, a degree student and a freelance textiles and illustration artist! She’s inspired by motherhood, community and nature.
She has been a freelance artist for over the years whilst dabbling in print making, fashion design and ceramics her free time.
Edwina Ashton
Margaret Parsons
Claire Palmer
Kit Poulson
Penelope Dack
Men’s Shed
Dragonfly Unit
Otium Centre
Women Like Me
James Metsoja
Debbie Barnes
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