tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67895708092379405782024-03-04T20:16:31.083-08:00JawSpring Exhibition : Poetry ArtJawspring an exhibition of Art inspired by PoetryAlban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-35566951085136634772014-03-22T01:28:00.003-07:002014-03-22T01:33:59.086-07:00Jawspring Sprung! <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo - M.Ezra</td></tr>
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Yesterday we celebrated World Poetry Day with a fantastic party at the Village Hall Gallery Wimbledon. The Gallery was packed out with artists, poets and culture vultures from all over the UK and further afield. For many of the poets it was the first time that they had seen what the artists had created from their written work. It was a chance to meet new people as well as catch up with friends.<br />
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Danish artist Eskild Beck and Nexus gallery owner <span class="full-name"><span class="given-name">Kent</span> <span class="family-name">Lauritsen were the furthest travellers all the way from Aabenraa but as always celebrity splicer Melanie Ezra and sushi laureate Daniel Leek made the long journey from Swansea to be with us. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gallery Manager - <br />
Tahira Mandarino</td></tr>
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<span class="full-name"><span class="family-name">A special thank you to the Merton Poets who treated us to a fabulous performance of their exhibition poems as well as one or two extra treats, Keith Drake in particular made a big splash with his homage to Marcel Duchamp. They were expertly corralled by fellow poet John Grant and filmed by Andy V Frost so we'll post some footage when it's been edited.</span></span><br />
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<span class="full-name"><span class="family-name">As an organiser it is hard to process the sentiments that rush through me at this time. It is with huge appreciation though that I say thank you, to all the people who were there, to those that believed in another project however harebrained and for making World Poetry Day 2014 a day to remember.</span></span><br />
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The Gallery with be open for two more days - <br />
Saturday 22nd March - 11am to 4pm<br />
Sunday 23rd March - 1 to 4pmAlban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-46460268504868881702014-03-18T08:59:00.001-07:002014-03-18T09:02:29.311-07:00Jawspring Exhibition : World Poetry Day<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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A real team effort from Bryan Benge, Dean Reddick, Dawes Gray, Maryam Mazraei and myself has prepared us for the opening of the Jawspring exhibition tomorrow morning. <br />
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The exhibition poster (left) is safely slotted into our A-frame board and the 35 sushi laureates have pride of place in three bespoke display cases.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dean Reddick and<br />
Bryan Benge</td></tr>
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We hope you'll be able to come along on Friday 21st March from 6-8pm to help celebrate World Poetry Day but just in case you can't I've posted some photos of the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html">Village Hall Gallery</a> below. <br />
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The Gallery will be open at other times too, so please come along and say hello. I'll be there every day, busily making sushi out of recycled materials.<br />
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Opening Times:<br />
Wednesday 19th: <strong>11am-1pm</strong><br />
Thursday 20th:<strong> 1-4pm</strong><br />
Friday 21st: <strong>4-8pm</strong><br />
Saturday 22nd:<strong> 11am-4pm</strong><br />
Sunday 23rd: <strong>1-4pm</strong><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sara Lerota/Ann Vaughan-Williams (Top Left)<br />
Melanie Ezra/Tony Josolyne (Top right)<br />
Francesca Cantioni/Humphrey Aylwin Selfe<br />
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Alban Low/Jane Barton (bottom right)</td></tr>
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We're very fortunate that the Merton Poets will be giving a poetry performance from 7pm in the adjoining room on the night itself. Come and meet the poets and many of the artists too, share a glass of wine and take home a sushi poem for a very affordable £1.<br />
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Look forward to seeing you there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(from left) Bryan Benge, Eskild Beck, Siobhan Tarr,<br />
Renata Szur & Wayne Sleeth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(From right) Maryam Mazraei, Ella Penn, Stuart Simler<br />
(On the plinth) Robert Good<br />
(Sculpture) Wojciech Antoni Sobczynski</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(from right) Dawes Gray, Shona Davies and Dave Monaghan,<br />
Alban Low & Tahira Mandarino</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dean Reddick's work inspired by poet John Grant</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(From left) Ann Kopka, Philp J Deed,<br />
and Carolina Khouri</td></tr>
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Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-13273020914521704232014-02-19T01:02:00.000-08:002014-02-19T01:04:32.829-08:00Purring Penny Parr<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.</div>
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Today's poet is of the prose persuasion but has broken out of her comfort zone to dabble in the dark arts of the Haiku. Penny Parr is on the cusp of becoming a 'gun for hire' private tutor in her home town of Burton-on-Trent and putting to good use a pristine first class degree. Watch out for the Annie Oakley of French & German tuition on the Staffordshire highways. For her Jawspring inspiration she hasn't wandered further than her home environment and her two Maine Coon cats, Shanklin and Mystique.......</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Feline instinct, grave purpose, </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Tabby stalking prey.</strong></span></div>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-35035968294453867622014-02-18T00:58:00.000-08:002014-02-18T00:58:34.146-08:00Judith Parry - The Freeverse Pimpernel<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Judith Parry<br />
Releasing Poetry in Cheltenham<br />
courtesy of <a href="http://tellingstoriesblog.wordpress.com/">http://tellingstoriesblog.wordpress.com/</a></td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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They seek her here they seek her there, <a href="http://tellingstoriesblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Judith Parry</a> your poems are everywhere. She is the Scarlet Pimpernel of poets, a woman who freely exhibits her works in unexpected places around town. She is currently releasing up to 100 postcard sized literary surprises into the wild. As you might know this type of guerrilla interaction is very close to our hearts, especially with a new magnetic street art exhibition around the corner in <a href="http://fabfridge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/fab-fridge-2014-magnetic-street-art.html" target="_blank">Bath</a>. Late last year we were fortunate enough to capture Parry and contain her within four walls for the <a href="http://murderminutes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/art-jazzed-up-up-and-away.html" target="_blank">'Art Jazzed Up'</a> exhibition at The Shaw Gallery in Croydon. We're therefore very excited to pounce* on the lesser spotted Parry haiku and keep it in captivity, well, just until the exhibition finishes on the 24th March and then it will be released back into the public domain to fertilise our minds......<br />
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<span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Young
rose blooms bee strewn</strong></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Open
petals beckoning</strong></span></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Pollination
time</strong></span></span></span><br />
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.<br />
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<em>*No Judith Parrys were harmed in the act of poetry capture.</em>Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-57671184558127182252014-02-17T02:01:00.000-08:002014-02-17T02:55:32.924-08:00Mysterious Melody Clarke<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is this the real Melody Clarke?</td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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It goes without saying that when you send out an 'Open Call' you are providing an opportunity for other creative people but for me it is also a broadening of experience and an opportunity to meet new faces. Although we have built a loyal group, where once unfamiliar faces have now become friends there is always a wild card in the pack. Melody Clarke is our joker. Usually I can track down their online profiles, attribute Twitter and Facebook accounts to them and start to build a past and a future. If I was a gambling man then I would say that our Melody Clarke was the head honcho at Beware of the Bull but then I could be talking poppycock. We'll let Clarke be the mysterious member of the Sushi Laureates and for her poem, 'Romancing the stoned' to do the talking.....<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Smoke,
musk, silk.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Touching
soft skin.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">‘<span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;">Marry
me,’ I murmur.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">‘<span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;">No,’
he said.</span></span></span></span><br />
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.<br />
<br />Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-543405399002960362014-02-15T01:21:00.002-08:002014-02-15T01:24:30.482-08:00Wake up to Roshni Dhanjee<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roshni Dhanjee<br />
courtesy of <a href="https://soundcloud.com/roshni-sunshine-dhanjee">https://soundcloud.com</a></td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today's poet brings us her rays of sunshine to cheer us up on another blustery and wet day here in the UK. <a href="http://sunhoney.deviantart.com/#super-secret-why" target="_blank">Roshni Dhanjee</a> is the Brighton based creative who comes to us via Geneva with her insightful creations. Known as Sunhoney in literary circles this Sussex student also has a whiff of the romantic about her. Not only does Dhanjee want to plant poetic seeds in our mind but also to leave her mark on the Perfumery Industry after gaining a BSC in Organic, Inorganic and Physical chemistry..............<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">violet
in my dreams</span></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>but here you are real</strong></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>, yellow</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">
<strong>and shades of
daylight</strong></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roshni Dhanjee's<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-64531452295272098392014-02-14T01:39:00.001-08:002014-02-14T01:40:49.253-08:00Mark Carr - Mind. Hammer. Blow. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark Carr<br />
Sushi Laureate</td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today's Poet doesn't pull his punches, and why should he. <a href="http://armchairanarchist.wix.com/artist" target="_blank">Mark Carr</a> has been round the block and experienced the inevitable ups and downs of an artist's life since completed his degree in 1984. Perfect for this international exhibition Carr has travelled extensively in North America, India and Australasia collecting cultural and personal influences which he has integrated into his work. His most recent and gripping artistic development is his rich repetitive film work, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKthz6yvk3o" target="_blank">YES/NO</a> being a case in point, where simplicity becomes a weapon in which to hammer our consciousness states. His Jawspring poem needs no introduction, it is what is.......<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">when depression grips<br />and inevitability falls<br />then all
that’s gone<br />is as nothing.</span></strong><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7X68zEXNNxA_8vT9ILIchu8vaSACE83-o7NgXwgAkimdIeCiLFeihAHH5bMC-JaOYy4SzSZwfOlmhUIoChksETWKP4rFhscQLaXYvRvid5LBhuCfOD8VCEc7wnZAXuCact7ZAqafcXsZH/s1600/26_Mark_Carr_artist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7X68zEXNNxA_8vT9ILIchu8vaSACE83-o7NgXwgAkimdIeCiLFeihAHH5bMC-JaOYy4SzSZwfOlmhUIoChksETWKP4rFhscQLaXYvRvid5LBhuCfOD8VCEc7wnZAXuCact7ZAqafcXsZH/s1600/26_Mark_Carr_artist.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark Carr's<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-16289408019276388782014-02-12T00:30:00.000-08:002014-02-11T23:39:18.669-08:00Rolling with Natie Marie Davies <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuy11PToEgq-ApkVfLuw0ppg409HLSaIqNR1qzjloAl6Yr-mvTbUn21AwseXa-u7CBQUu2Kw545_sjZUArA7pM43WFx-oPs7oikORk_UiWWdZ6leN4R14D-I4UcBvs9twnljtQsAnhyvVu/s1600/Natie_Marie_Davies_Art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuy11PToEgq-ApkVfLuw0ppg409HLSaIqNR1qzjloAl6Yr-mvTbUn21AwseXa-u7CBQUu2Kw545_sjZUArA7pM43WFx-oPs7oikORk_UiWWdZ6leN4R14D-I4UcBvs9twnljtQsAnhyvVu/s1600/Natie_Marie_Davies_Art.jpg" height="195" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Natie Marie Davies<br />
courtesy of <a href="http://letterboxd.com/">http://letterboxd.com</a></td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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<a href="http://thismakesmylife.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Natie Marie Davies</a> is a bright spark amongst the twinkling brilliance of the South Wales art community. A photographer, model and illustrator who is one of the many artists (in this exhibition alone) who has sprung from the Swansea Scene. Although she has exhibited three times recently in group photography shows it is her wonderfully idiosyncratic drawings that are addictive viewing. Take a walk through her imagination and discover wild wildings, roaming robots, beasties, terrors and lurkers at <a href="http://thismakesmylife.blogspot.co.uk/">http://thismakesmylife.blogspot.co.uk/</a>. Like Davies' JawSpring haiku expect a healthy dash of humour from her beautiful mind too.........<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Miso
want sushi</strong></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Bad
joke? I'm soysoy sorry</strong></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">That's
just how I roll</span></span></strong></div>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-55904553907627695762014-02-11T01:03:00.000-08:002014-02-11T23:35:44.293-08:00Leila Coward - Reflective waves<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Untitled by Leila Coward<br />
courtesy of <a href="http://www.leilacoward.co.uk/">www.leilacoward.co.uk/</a></td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Leila Coward is another of our Sushi Poets who doesn't let genre boundaries get in the way of her creativity. Apart from ceramics, painting, stained glass, weave, print, multi-media art and teaching with children, young people and adults she now reinforces her Poetry credentials with today's Jawspring offering. Coward is no stranger to literary gems, her Treeworks series combine porcelain and natural materials with a delicate literary surprise hidden within many of the artworks. "I chose the tree as a symbol of the strength of nature and the cycle of life." She explains, "The light inside it is a metaphor for the energy that exists in all-living things.". Today while the floods across the UK lap at our feet it is Coward herself that provides us with the light and the hope....................<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Undulating waves,<br />Freedom within the deep blue,<br />Reflection of self.</span></strong><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1pwyMpCd9j8FBfo1dPudVdC3KZJd4H-xosp2MZHR6DcOLHfqbcABoGO4T7B0YJw09vIaCp7om5ys0IvShrDWZMwN3LpNPap2mTOm1j3pO8UV6p1MwLxiPcnGkcshoyl-q0NE8Bs33QSK-/s1600/24_leila_Coward_art_poetry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1pwyMpCd9j8FBfo1dPudVdC3KZJd4H-xosp2MZHR6DcOLHfqbcABoGO4T7B0YJw09vIaCp7om5ys0IvShrDWZMwN3LpNPap2mTOm1j3pO8UV6p1MwLxiPcnGkcshoyl-q0NE8Bs33QSK-/s1600/24_leila_Coward_art_poetry.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leila Coward's<br />
Sushi Haiku</td></tr>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-23652051228063901322014-02-10T01:10:00.000-08:002014-02-10T01:10:07.771-08:00Paul Matosic - Graveyards of Stuff<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul Matosic<br />
courtesy of <a href="http://4art.com/">http://4art.com</a></td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today's poet is the well known conceptual upcycler who downcycles his artistic creations on gallery floors around the world. Paul Matosic is the Nottingham based multimedia artist<br />
whose installations use items that have been deemed useless and obsolete as a way of challenging Western consumerist attitudes. Although he creates comfortingly organised worlds, much like an architectural model or townscape, these worlds in reality are the graveyards of 'Stuff', littered with the tombstones of retail addiction. His conceptual eye helps transform detritus into topography and here for Jawspring he turns light into dark.....<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><span><strong>if
snow was black it would not matter</strong></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><span><strong> if </strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><span><strong></strong></span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><span><strong>you burned your mince
pies.</strong></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul Matosic's<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
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We have printed his poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.<br />
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Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-82215992961007198722014-02-08T04:05:00.002-08:002014-02-08T04:05:55.993-08:00Becky Lowe - Metrological Zeitgeist<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Becky Lowe<br />
Courtesy of <a class="_xf irc_hol" data-ved="0CAQQjB0" href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=VCZ4AJG4bhDSjM&tbnid=u4suTl8F9c0-DM:&ved=0CAQQjB0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.google.com%2F115210785502086316151&ei=0xz2UqX0E8bO0QXF44DoDA&bvm=bv.60983673,d.ZG4&psig=AFQjCNFVksqrDLlBk_sefv17bLi6HEvnrQ&ust=1391946875809539"><span class="irc_ho" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1e0fbe;">plus.google.com</span></span></a><span class="_En"> </span></td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Swansea features once again in the creative circles of London as we inaugurate <a href="http://dizzysheep.livejournal.com/" target="_blank">Becky Lowe</a> into the Sushi Laureate roll of fame. Not only do we have Blue Plaque Poet Daniel Leek from said shores but also dream splicer Melanie Ezra in our ranks. Lowe is a journalist and peace activist whose work has been featured on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/radio_4_poetry_workshop_dylan_thomas_centre_swansea" target="_blank">Radio 4</a>, been feted in pubs, clubs and bohemian gatherings along the Gower Peninsula and beyond. Despite her lofty reputation we are lucky that no matter how large or small the job at hand, her objective is always the same "clear, accurate and arresting copy, on time, to brief and to budget." Well, she should add topical to her CV because her sushi poem perfectly captures the metrological zeitgeist of 2014.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>There is no
silence</strong></span></span></div>
<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So absolute
as the rain</span></span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just before
it falls</span></span></span></strong><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzMHkzVsx3NapCtH7-EUB1RNV4REb3z_-EDsN03EKUzuhusv5nJlhttHx3Nbx93p6OtrTRVj36tc5q8nJohW8I14mmGn6SCgDVZZQcXsbyxoqoKcesUzgRPS2YQCEMRMKcB5htk0DzO0uG/s1600/22_Becky_Lowe_art_poetry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzMHkzVsx3NapCtH7-EUB1RNV4REb3z_-EDsN03EKUzuhusv5nJlhttHx3Nbx93p6OtrTRVj36tc5q8nJohW8I14mmGn6SCgDVZZQcXsbyxoqoKcesUzgRPS2YQCEMRMKcB5htk0DzO0uG/s1600/22_Becky_Lowe_art_poetry.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Becky Lowe's<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-28454107990575856582014-02-07T01:56:00.000-08:002014-02-09T01:55:31.825-08:00The heavenly Jovana Mitic<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhf6Qss13O0XR8Od5lx-6ZGa-XueHbLxqDZ275IX4spYX4ednElEKfauqAOm2QFcoolvERL1Czl3uvVPwUJlZvv-fRfxNI7pX27sECwTIMlPS-O6o3irMm6M49NcwnuX1G0PvVKRVM4oDJ/s1600/Jovana_Mitic_art_Jawspring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhf6Qss13O0XR8Od5lx-6ZGa-XueHbLxqDZ275IX4spYX4ednElEKfauqAOm2QFcoolvERL1Czl3uvVPwUJlZvv-fRfxNI7pX27sECwTIMlPS-O6o3irMm6M49NcwnuX1G0PvVKRVM4oDJ/s1600/Jovana_Mitic_art_Jawspring.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Super Jovana Mitic<br />
courtesy of <a href="http://www.articurate.net/">http://www.articurate.net</a></td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today's poet has embraced the world and it's people have taken her to their hearts. Jovan Mitic is the Serbian artist who has been winning awards in her homeland this past year and making friends across the globe. London has embraced her charms most recently with an appearance along the Southbank in the <a href="http://collectconnect.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/jovana-mitic-drawing-crowds-in-london.html" target="_blank">'Cardboard City'</a> exhibition and a shortlisted artwork at <a href="http://murderminutes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/award-shortlist-art-jazzed-up.html" target="_blank">'Art Jazzed Up' </a>in the Shaw Gallery, Croydon. At this point I would like to say the 'Sun has got his hat on and is coming out to play' but the only globular celestial body on display has been the Moon recently, who has emerged from London's dark January skies to start a little romance. It seems that it is not just mere mortals that are falling for Mitic's spell but heavenly bodies too.....................<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>Last
night Moon was full. </strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>One star was looking at him and </strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>she saw you.</strong></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHAXH5NgayFptvsIjHeFTyTAQTWbXcUG5NYar3hcIYMZSLUOLJBr83yCuZLaREoUNJUb0OM5jZgHPOqhyphenhyphenFR-mHSHXzAiwCGiDNdYYQvNUB9-rksHNhahRI21Xy9cP12vdEZ3WV6X7FeiL/s1600/21_Jovana_Mitic_artist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHAXH5NgayFptvsIjHeFTyTAQTWbXcUG5NYar3hcIYMZSLUOLJBr83yCuZLaREoUNJUb0OM5jZgHPOqhyphenhyphenFR-mHSHXzAiwCGiDNdYYQvNUB9-rksHNhahRI21Xy9cP12vdEZ3WV6X7FeiL/s1600/21_Jovana_Mitic_artist.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jovana Mitic's<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-33795336670175792402014-02-06T02:49:00.000-08:002014-02-06T03:00:26.844-08:00Ed Arantus - Erogenous Zone to Funny Bone<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SFCHB4kkhWih_2gyoQ5GsteHTA1DnKAY3bI-wA0dPQxxnSIpN_84rb7Sy2DNbjoAhaRQ_IM-nMeNqGRpSijLidM5J8PgSTc65-8bodEXP2KIiUoemOcyTYMBpeq0Km3rEJvYtu03V6VM/s1600/19_Ed_Erantus_artist_poet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SFCHB4kkhWih_2gyoQ5GsteHTA1DnKAY3bI-wA0dPQxxnSIpN_84rb7Sy2DNbjoAhaRQ_IM-nMeNqGRpSijLidM5J8PgSTc65-8bodEXP2KIiUoemOcyTYMBpeq0Km3rEJvYtu03V6VM/s1600/19_Ed_Erantus_artist_poet.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ed Arantus'<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://edarantus.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ed Arantus</a> is not only an artist and activist but an all round good egg. As a regular visitor to my studio I have been lucky enough to witness his artistic talents first hand. He still remains a bit of mystery and it was with great surprise to receive a Haiku from him last week. He is no stranger to exhibitions and publications, it was his entry into the cutting edge <a href="http://censoredzine.wordpress.com/2010/07/" target="_blank">Censored Zine</a> of July 2010 that piqued my interest, alongside a few risqué photos too. Always playful, whether that be erogenous zone or funny bone, here he gives us his JawSpring haiku called Smug......<br />
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<strong>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">dotting
my eyes</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">crossing
my teeth</span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong></strong></span></span></span> </div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tapping
my knows.</span></span></strong></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEJF_mUyF1SqSX4SzI_MtE2f3au1Cocvy_lGUmpt2fRITC0SrL9X4Aqai5o-q1UwvZqtsAfdUc7IcoSvOKMlVm_EZJsn-66Rlhx-H073uZDq4J23KqSANpPBQdJLCn9E9XMm1ix4elgJ2/s1600/Ed_Arantus_ornage_peel_artist.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEJF_mUyF1SqSX4SzI_MtE2f3au1Cocvy_lGUmpt2fRITC0SrL9X4Aqai5o-q1UwvZqtsAfdUc7IcoSvOKMlVm_EZJsn-66Rlhx-H073uZDq4J23KqSANpPBQdJLCn9E9XMm1ix4elgJ2/s1600/Ed_Arantus_ornage_peel_artist.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ed Arantus<br />
Orange Peel Artist</td></tr>
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We have printed his poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-643576665032296552014-02-03T00:25:00.001-08:002014-02-03T00:26:56.721-08:00Stella Tripp - Painting with words<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF8BeLVnQzJ1rfdwABusBXNMEjHuyxDrMvDw5YpmeYlO64mJouzIxjrCRNGYa1AubrbVrqPpKCtfsTVFEiqO3SDvGIIFke7Au1hANfmNaBmZR9KRJzDRDi9rhVR-_pmILrMzAUHriMHlod/s1600/stella_tripp_artist_poet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF8BeLVnQzJ1rfdwABusBXNMEjHuyxDrMvDw5YpmeYlO64mJouzIxjrCRNGYa1AubrbVrqPpKCtfsTVFEiqO3SDvGIIFke7Au1hANfmNaBmZR9KRJzDRDi9rhVR-_pmILrMzAUHriMHlod/s1600/stella_tripp_artist_poet.jpg" height="320" width="273" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stella Tripp -Word Artist<br />
Courtesy of <a href="http://www.artspaces.co.uk/">www.artspaces.co.uk</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
<br />
My first encounter with <a href="http://www.stellatripp.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank">Stella Tripp's</a> artwork was at the <a href="http://lightbite.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Nottingham Light Night festival</a> in 2011 and since then I've been fortunate enough to exhibit alongside her and see a wave of new work break onto the UK Art scene. This well travelled artist is based in Exeter but spent many a year teaching and painting in the USA where she gained her MA and MFA, and held a Graduate Fellowship at South Illinois University. It is the recent development of words entering her artwork that has captured my attention. For years Tripp found the use of words difficult and felt happier using colours and shapes to express the universal language of art. Three years ago she embarked upon a series of 'Word Paintings" and now it seems she cannot read a book without identifying a word that looks as if it should be made into a painting. Her Jawspring poem turns the tables once again, this time conjuring mental images with her words......<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>days
lengthening towards a sharing feast of raw recycled moments</strong></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWaubZm4CSIdnQQV0kln7OfW2f338OtFRUsOhJExx5Afl0BwSZzkodY6x5aX1vK3o4iDln6Q6uzmPIt1s_CBuvhBKbf4aIjRlbFqUiYLllR0v444F3khUk4dv_Om2k3ezvPdRqkBtG8mw/s1600/18_Stella_Tripp_artist_poet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWaubZm4CSIdnQQV0kln7OfW2f338OtFRUsOhJExx5Afl0BwSZzkodY6x5aX1vK3o4iDln6Q6uzmPIt1s_CBuvhBKbf4aIjRlbFqUiYLllR0v444F3khUk4dv_Om2k3ezvPdRqkBtG8mw/s1600/18_Stella_Tripp_artist_poet.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stella Tripp's<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-45458376313546867892014-02-02T02:00:00.000-08:002014-02-02T02:01:07.380-08:00Diane Taber - Lyrical kisses<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl0UnMlixS6_pmKAQ2aJMxNK7Nhol1bZYmZszqSGVzh_TMosznABLEMROJhAsLN07gT3FpN7R1rsF6RPE07QifuLE-09GzHK5Fzp1ZzSFiVzBlUYh8aick9MYCzXoYzd2Pm7DUNVbNTgrB/s1600/Diane_Taber_singer_Buffalo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl0UnMlixS6_pmKAQ2aJMxNK7Nhol1bZYmZszqSGVzh_TMosznABLEMROJhAsLN07gT3FpN7R1rsF6RPE07QifuLE-09GzHK5Fzp1ZzSFiVzBlUYh8aick9MYCzXoYzd2Pm7DUNVbNTgrB/s1600/Diane_Taber_singer_Buffalo.jpg" height="320" width="204" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diane Taber<br />
courtesy of <a href="http://www.dianetabermusic.com/">www.dianetabermusic.com</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
<br />
Today's Poet brings a touch of glamour to the Jawspring exhibition. <a href="http://www.dianetabermusic.com/" target="_blank">Diane Taber</a> is the Buffalo (NY, USA) born singer-songwriter who has notched up an eye-watering list of collaborations with many a Jazz icon. Despite being a frequent traveller on the North American live music circuit it was at home that her love of music developed. Taber's father was a singer and it was the way he delivered a lyric and the magical story it possessed that inspired her at the age of 5. Now is the time for her talent to truly blossom, she has cast off the yoke of other writer's lyrics and has become a wordsmith in her own right (<span itemprop="name"><span id="cphContent_lblAlbumTitle"><a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dianetaber" target="_blank">More Than One Ingredient</a>, 2013).</span></span> Looking in her current playlist I see she has one eye on our London Jazz world (George Crowley and Kit Downes) but it is with pleasure that we return our gaze across the Atlantic and revel in her poetic talents.......<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Or, will your smile</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">be like a kiss I'll want
</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">to taste forever</span></strong>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWtYhVLPv0Hvus_530xb4mMWDaK-GCYs2mgQGaTqhvEfLWu4zbIM8Mw2e1GQMT1CLungQCDmXtqGt6rhJsQhPpFTtTHSVetD8hUNoNzrs_teCoWGc02-nVkLev0UIKOA8RABP9NfDfRdg4/s1600/17_Diane_Taber_singer_poet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWtYhVLPv0Hvus_530xb4mMWDaK-GCYs2mgQGaTqhvEfLWu4zbIM8Mw2e1GQMT1CLungQCDmXtqGt6rhJsQhPpFTtTHSVetD8hUNoNzrs_teCoWGc02-nVkLev0UIKOA8RABP9NfDfRdg4/s1600/17_Diane_Taber_singer_poet.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diane Taber's<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-75941206274124791472014-02-01T04:54:00.001-08:002014-02-01T04:55:00.484-08:00Flying high with Bright Redgrave<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZHObD3tNb_61YOLxTK9ucFp4w8MERECVvjXW3yJuP_gZtgr9FPnKdmzqkZN8BMKJ8S9sGK-mTKF_A8_5KauETChK2zl1NfV64RIlrsbG91qtCX2lxMfrLugnQ7Yx0NHF2lAR-1R-mH26x/s1600/Bright_Redgrave_poet_victoria+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZHObD3tNb_61YOLxTK9ucFp4w8MERECVvjXW3yJuP_gZtgr9FPnKdmzqkZN8BMKJ8S9sGK-mTKF_A8_5KauETChK2zl1NfV64RIlrsbG91qtCX2lxMfrLugnQ7Yx0NHF2lAR-1R-mH26x/s1600/Bright_Redgrave_poet_victoria+(2).jpg" height="320" width="243" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bright Redgrave<br />
courtesy of <a href="http://www.victoriaredgrave.co.uk/">www.victoriaredgrave.co.uk</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
<br />
Today's poet is an alchemist, an experimenter and cerebral adventurer. <a href="http://www.victoriaredgrave.co.uk/home/4580191702" target="_blank">Bright Redgrave</a> is the nom de plume or alternative identity of the artist Victoria Redgrave. As a creator she is Interior Design's errant sibling, chewing up controlled spaces and spitting out conceptual sculpture and performance art. If you are lucky enough to be drawn into one of Redgrave's worlds then be prepared to have your beliefs and identity encouragingly challenged. Her ideals and ethos are in tune with us here at Jawspring with an interest in incorporating recycled and reused materials in her work. On a personal level I am drawn to her written work, particularly her <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Road-Bright-Redgrave-ebook/dp/B00HQJWK0G" target="_blank">'A Road'</a> anthology, that charts a journey through mental illness, physical pain, spiritual awareness and the inquisitive nature of the human condition. Here is her elevating poem for the JawSpring exhibition......<br />
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<span class="c1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><u>Souls
Journey</u> </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b></b></span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">One day</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><div align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%;">
One way</div>
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Open mind <br />
Open sky </div>
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Fly</div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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Sushi Poem</td></tr>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-52300545173771795752014-01-31T01:23:00.002-08:002014-01-31T01:23:49.205-08:00Darren Atkinson - Catalyst Converter <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darren Atkinson - Catalyst Poet</td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today's poet has been addicted to Haikus since he was knee high to a giraffe. Darren Atkinson is no stranger to change and transformation, for the past two years he has had the unenviable task of migrating the public of Croydon away from their telephonic addiction and into the online stream. Since then he has been poached by Canberra Institute of Technology and has swapped South London for sunnier climes. I know him from his work with the rambling art collective <a href="http://www.smart-walks.co.uk/SMartWalks/Home.html" target="_blank">SMartwalks</a>, whose artwork is currently being honoured with an entry in the THE WALKING ENCYCLOPAEDIA at the <a href="http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php" target="_blank">AirSpace Gallery</a> in Stoke. For the Jawspring exhibition he has submitted this 'Procrastination' haiku, but in reality there is nothing static about this dynamic individual except the shock from his waterproof leggings......<br />
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<pre><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>intention, hawk poised
hypnagogic delusion,
inertia beset</strong></span></pre>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darren Atkinson<br />
Procrastination Haiku</td></tr>
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We have printed his poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-74541665436411399662014-01-30T00:43:00.000-08:002014-01-30T00:45:26.772-08:00Julie Reay - Poetic Firebrand<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julie Reay's<br />
Open Fridge Artwork</td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Julie Reay has been exhibiting with us since the <a href="http://openfridgemagnets.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Open Fridge</a> Exhibition in 2010 (Gallery 89, Barnet). She has a keen eye for the poetic and political, and was drawn to our inclusive ideals, something which is close to her heart too. I first knew her as an elected Councillor for Kingston Council in 1990's. Reay has since been appointed Chair of Kingston and Richmond Health Authority and is now a consultant to the voluntary sector and works for Unison in an acute hospital. I have always admired her passion and charisma which draws you close like a moth to a flame. Her poem is one of the shortest in the exhibition and is typically positive in light of the torrential rain that is presently the UK's unwelcome guest. I imagine Reay holding up the sky like Atlas on her beautiful shoulders.....<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">this fiery ribbon is holding up the rain</span></strong><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julie Reay<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-2180902812882614292014-01-29T00:16:00.000-08:002014-01-29T00:16:16.278-08:00Karen Harvey - Fenland Friendships<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Karen Harvey<br />
Courtesy of <a href="http://horsefairshoppingcentre.co.uk/">horsefairshoppingcentre.co.uk/</a><br />
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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We couldn't of crammed the CV of today's poet on a 50 foot sushi, so here's a mere soupcon. Since graduating from Berkshire School of Art with a First Class BA(Hons) in Photography, Karen Harvey has worked mainly as a freelance photographer and arts facilitator but also as a writer, curator, consultant, lecturer, mentor and residential artist. She founded <a href="http://karen-harvey.co.uk/atelier_east" target="_blank">Atelier East</a>, the arts organisation that inspires creativity and high quality arts to the Fens. Admirably and very close to our ideals she also created the <a href="http://karen-harvey.co.uk/social_enterprise_-_fenland_scrapstore_ltd" target="_blank">Fenland Scrapstore Ltd</a>, which focuses on making the arts accessible for everyone. It seems she is a born organiser and entrepreneur and the brightest jewel in her crown is <a href="http://shutterhub.org.uk/" target="_blank">Sutter Hub</a>, an invaluable source of information, advice, networking and opportunities for all photographers. <br />
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As if that wasn't enough she won a Clore Poetry and Literature Award in 2011. Amongst the dazzling glare of these accolades it is refreshing to see Karen Harvey's darker side with her sushi poem <strong>The Death of Friendship</strong>......<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>She
was consumed by her own selfish head</strong></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">And
fell into her own hollow heart.</span></strong><br />
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-84277886314253053752014-01-28T00:06:00.000-08:002014-01-28T00:52:23.311-08:00Effra Aye-Maung-Hider - Not that strange or odd<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today's poet makes it a full house of participation in this small artistic enclave. Effra is my eldest daughter and despite having a talent for drama she also has a way with words. Just like her namesake, the River Effra, she keeps her talents underground with brief flashes of natural brilliance when the mood takes her. She is no slouch when it comes to Art either and won the coveted <a href="http://openfridgemagnets.blogspot.co.uk/p/awards.html" target="_blank">Pomme D'Or</a> at the inaugural Open Fridge Exhibition in 2010 at Gallery 89. Like any daughter her poem reflects both the idiocy of her father's projects and the affection that swells within..............<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><strong>IMPLAUSABLE AS</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">SUSHI
POETRY HAIKU GAME</span></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><strong>NOT
THAT STRANGE OR ODD.</strong></span></span><br />
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-24544946801280863512014-01-27T01:14:00.002-08:002014-01-27T01:57:11.901-08:00Paul Jerram - Shredded Art Man<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul Jerram - Barra<br />
'Art Jazzed Up' Exhibition<br />
Shaw Gallery 2013</td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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I became aware of today's poet at the<a href="http://rarities2011.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Rarities</a> exhibition in 2011, where he exhibited two of his magnetic images on Hasting's Pier. Since then Paul Jerram has weaved his way into a broad palette of exhibitions, interventions and publications like <a href="http://patternotion.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Patternotion</a>. His paper shuffling creations are a testament to his philosophy.<br />
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"The mode of thinking I have adopted and extended from my everyday living into my Fine Art practice is the idea of recycling in its broadest sense. Being able to make greater use of the materials I have around me or that I am presented with each day, for example junk mail. This is something I would always feel very negatively about, but now I see a variety of possibilities and I find that I actually welcome it."<br />
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For Jawspring, Jerram has applied his organisation skills to cut up words rather than newsprint and takes us on a unexpected journey within just 13 words........<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">come in sideways out and not round the other way to the shore</span></span></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul Jerram<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
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We have printed his poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</span></div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-42770862622870026472014-01-26T02:06:00.003-08:002014-01-26T05:45:15.391-08:00Staring at Milos Rankovic<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Milos Rankovic - Art</td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today our Sushi Laureate is <a href="http://rhizome.org/artbase/artwork/29714/" target="_blank">Milos Rankovic</a>, an artist and poet who embraces the spirit of our World Poetry Day exhibition by reaching us via Bergen, Norway and a sojourn in Leeds, UK. We've been lucky enough to entice Rankovic into the magnetic art fold too, with three fascinating mega pixelated works ready to be exhibited on the streets of Bath, UK as part of the <a href="http://fabfridge.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">FAB Fridge</a> exhibition in May.<br />
Of course Rankovic isn't a stranger to an exhibition or two with a body of this work being presented at the Guggenheim, Chapman University. Stare too long at them and perhaps they help explain his JawSpring poem........<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>There's this moisture of the gaze, </strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>the
constant sweat of the hard-working eye.</strong></span></span></div>
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We have printed his poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</div>
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All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</div>
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AL.Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-41638447861782773642014-01-25T08:32:00.001-08:002014-01-25T08:33:32.542-08:00Peter Turton - Suburban Bon Viveur<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Turton -<br />
Bacchanalian Poet</td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today's poet hides an ample light under his bushel. This imperial measurement of dry goods is totally inappropriate for the man concerned, he was in truth a prolific imbiber of intoxicating liquids when I first got to know him. Peter Turton has always been a flamboyant wordsmith and I fell under his spell many a time when he held court at the Duke of Clarence, Hampton Hill in the late 1980's. Since then our Suburban Bon Viveur has retreated to his poet's garret, not far from Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare where he sends out his literary nuggets into polite society. Here he combines the two themes of the Jawspring exhibition.......<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>A
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>Alban Low in Coloured Jazz </strong></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Turton's<br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
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We have printed his poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a></div>
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Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</div>
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All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</div>
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Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-80868143439476680492014-01-24T02:05:00.000-08:002014-01-24T02:09:17.072-08:00The promise of Francesca Albini<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyMVJmwhVqi4-pjwRcD4ybf-jimYuLUACYq4q7wJCeasamoeIlQoPzIvPwEwF7EqLjkXTxcDdaIwr29UqC2c6VVdSvZSPv0C5U42xFUBfmg9USfxVwxzhpmpVYNze6dj8h4nVIExbXixCP/s1600/Francesca_albini_tube_art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyMVJmwhVqi4-pjwRcD4ybf-jimYuLUACYq4q7wJCeasamoeIlQoPzIvPwEwF7EqLjkXTxcDdaIwr29UqC2c6VVdSvZSPv0C5U42xFUBfmg9USfxVwxzhpmpVYNze6dj8h4nVIExbXixCP/s1600/Francesca_albini_tube_art.jpg" height="307" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francesca Albini - TUBE book</td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today's poem comes from the multi-talented Francesca Albini who is a poet, photographer and keen-eyed visual artist. Her philosophy that both humour and beauty are all around us is evident in her published work, <a href="http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/644399-tube" target="_blank">TUBE</a> which documents her <span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">journeys under London with her mobile phone. Albini's image making includes</span> found images, paper, glue, markers, paint and ingenuity. It is her insightful creative writing <a href="http://franjournal.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">(Blog)</a> that has captured my keen eye and so I'm very pleased she has become a sushi laureate with this poem.....<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Heavy drops of rain<br />With a promise of life<br />Lizards under
rocks</strong></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francesca Albini - <br />
Sushi Poem</td></tr>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</div>
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All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</div>
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<br />Alban Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17836554926634488247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789570809237940578.post-75422153495213950392014-01-23T07:12:00.001-08:002014-01-23T23:42:39.777-08:00Natalie Low - Art, Poetry and Love<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHp3YHs7NgBrogMVPHRD43SupEkF3jf8gHmGMKIcQ82jcBewldKghdnyIRWrEpX9jhJYDp7IYUgh4HEAVMhhJEbM9IO-gsPX0hmEA1ak6yw9gY_EFaBMrpw3mN0HcVN6RKBBlrLbinAilZ/s1600/Natalie_Low_Jawspring_poetry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHp3YHs7NgBrogMVPHRD43SupEkF3jf8gHmGMKIcQ82jcBewldKghdnyIRWrEpX9jhJYDp7IYUgh4HEAVMhhJEbM9IO-gsPX0hmEA1ak6yw9gY_EFaBMrpw3mN0HcVN6RKBBlrLbinAilZ/s1600/Natalie_Low_Jawspring_poetry.jpg" height="320" width="201" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Natalie Low</td></tr>
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Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.<br />
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Today we have a writer who I worked with for over 10 years so I should know her very well. When I was living in France I would write illustrated letters to my friends, describing the landscape, colour and atmosphere of rural life in the southern village of Cambieure. More friends and their friends wanted to join in too, so I set up a subscription service and started to send large clutches of these out into the world. Soon I needed writers to collaborate with and I started to meld my drawings with the words of Tanya Kreisky and Natalie Aye Maung.<br />
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I would create these images on long strips of envelope friendly paper and send off to Natalie, who lived in England. After a few weeks the selection of inspired words found their way through the various postal systems and into the hands of my post mistress. At first we added a note or two in our envelopes, soon these developed into full blown hand-written letters and eventually blossomed into romance. As you can see she is no longer Aye Maung but Low and still remains my closest collaborator. Here's her haiku for the Jawspring exhibition.....<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Smashed M and Ms on</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>the floor of the bus tonight</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>like sad dead fireworks</strong></span><br />
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Sushi haiku</td></tr>
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We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibition.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Village Hall Gallery</span></a> from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at <a href="mailto:albanlow@hotmail.com"><span style="color: #459ed2;">albanlow@hotmail.com</span></a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/albanart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #459ed2;">@albanart</span></a><br />
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Full details are on our <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/submit-poems.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">submit poems</span></a> page.</div>
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All these <a href="http://jawspring.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html"><span style="color: #459ed2;">Sushi Laureates</span></a> can be found on their designated page.</div>
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AL.</div>
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