Grassington Festival Curlew Auction
on Sep 1, 2009 in curlews Grassington Festival Burnett and Catt Our birds from the Grassington Festival public art project (Frieda Curlew and Curlicue) will be auctioned off on Thursday night along with all the other gorgeous birds. See the poster above for details.

Burnett & Catt - Recycled Costume - reposting
on Aug 11, 2009 in costume reel green media Madame de Pompadour copyright hooray for Hollywood kresta lins artist recycling Recycled Costume Burnett and Catt This is a costume constructed of recycled materials which we designed and created between March and May last year (2008). We were pretty proud of it at the time. It was commissioned by a Theatre company, although we were given free rein to interpret...

Stockton Carnival Parade 2009 - carnival artist
on Aug 4, 2009 in Costumes Carnival costumes artist Stockton Carnival Parade Carnival Art I've been really busy for the last few weeks working as a carnival artist on this years Stockton Carnival Parade,apparently its the second biggest in the country. Each of the five artists commissioned was responsible for a section of the parade based...

Colouring Outside the Lines Exhibition - preview images
on Jun 25, 2009 in University of Bradford Helen Musselwhite gallery II Carolyn Mendelsohn exhibition Colouring outside the lines Abigail Brown Images from the exhibition preview this evening.Images of my Phrenology and Crow works in the show below.I loved Carolyn Mendelsohn's work (below). The black boxes open to reveal magical lightboxes with accompanying sounds. Helen Musselwhite is showi...

Colouring Outside the Lines Exhibition
on Jun 22, 2009 in Helen Musselwhite gallery II exhibition morwenna catt Colouring outside the lines Art and Ghosts I have work exhibiting in a group show starting this week:Colouring Outside the Lines Friday 26 June - Friday 24 July 2009Preview: Thursday 25th June. 5pm till 7pm Gallery open: Monday to Friday, 11am - 5pm and Thursdays until 6pm Othe...

Grassington Festival Curlews - Burnett & Catt
on Jun 22, 2009 in curlews Grassington Festival After the Lord Mayors Carnival Parade and our refreshing hour and a half sleep (!) we went over to Grassington to find our Curlews. It had turned into a lovely sunny afternoon. This is Curlicue and Frida parked in their new homes. There are about 2...

Lord Mayors Parade - final nights work
on Jun 22, 2009 in bradford lord mayors carnival parade 2009 Burnett and Catt floats We spent the night before the parade constructing the floats. Helpfully, it was really windy and poured with rain for most of the night. By 4am in the morning we were gaffa taping foil to our legs to keep the cold out. The photos are taken as dawn ap...

Burnett & Catt - we've been busy, carnival 2009
on Jun 16, 2009 in Carnival costumes sun telescope bike smash robot fibre art smash alien moon bradford lord mayors carnival parade 2009 chopper Textiles carnival fiber art miss milky way We make costumes and floats for the Parade but we're also in it. Duncan will be 'Miss' Milky Way this year - this is him testing out the chopper / wide brimmed flying saucer hat configuration.If you look through the telescope you can see the Earth bo...

Burnett + Catt - Carnival in progress
on Jun 10, 2009 in stitch bradford lord mayors parade 2009 textile Carnival costumes Embroidery puppets smash robot fibre art silly furry head We've started stitching the large costumes for Bradford Lord Mayors Parade, the Sun and Moon are well on their way with ridiculous amounts of embroidery being applied late at night to massive swathes of cloak - wearing silly furry heads relieves the...

Burnett & Catt - Flight of Fancy - Grassington Festival Curlews
on Jun 1, 2009 in Curlew Grassington Festival Flight of Fancy Art trail In honour of the Curlews that flock to Grassington every spring, the festival team have arranged for artists to decorate fibre glass birds to adorn the village throughout the festival. All the birds will be auctioned off at the end. We've had a coupl...