Jawspring Sprung!

Photo - M.Ezra

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.

Danish artist Eskild Beck and Nexus gallery owner Kent 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.

Gallery Manager -
Tahira Mandarino

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.

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.

AL.

The Gallery with be open for two more days -
Saturday 22nd March - 11am to 4pm
Sunday 23rd March - 1 to 4pm

Daniel Leek - Blue Plaque Poet

Dan Leek and Blue Plaque
Hampstead

Welcome to the world of Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.
 
Today our Sushi Warrior is none other than poet and welsh philosopher Daniel Leek. We know him as a contributor of some note with image and prose in both the Freedbook and Patternotion books last year.

Little did we realise he has become a cult figure in Hampstead, where his blue plaque has been installed. It shouldn't be a surprise of course as his description reads professional breath taker, and his mercurial talents have obviously piqued the interests of this literary enclave.
Will his recent sushi poem engage the minds of the Wimbledon literati in the same way.....

The first thing the noise machine created was a noise for itself.

Dan Leek
Sushi Laureate

We have printed his poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send us a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

 All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 

AL.