Waiting for the Line Dancing
Photograph by Stella Levy
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Stella Levy at Widgery Studios. 'Photography,
Design and
Anything Arty'
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stella@widgerystudios.com
www.umberleigh-northdevon.co.uk
www.northdevonarts.co.uk
www.thebestofbarnstaple.com |
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I enjoy having an
idea and taking it forward into a project, creating a body of work over
a period of time. Being passionate about a chosen subject helps the
creative process, driving myself and other artists I may be working
with at certain times.
The
photograph shown, 'Waiting for the Line Dancing' is one
from such a project; 'A Year in the Life of South Molton's Sheep
Fair Field', undertaken with writer colleague, Mary
Stephenson.
Interviews were
undertaken and recordings of people, animals, auctioneers
and other sounds were made, along with many photos of
these subjects. Forming a large body of work, which is now
viewed as an important archive for South Molton, as since the Foot and
Mouth crisis, the annual Sheer Fair can no longer happen in this field.
The field looks
across South Molton to Exmoor in the distance - a view at the moment,
unadulterated by wind turbines. Not for long if the wind 'farm'
builders get their way!
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| Link
to the protest group
campaigning against wind turbines at Batsworthy Cross and Knowstone,
not far from South Molton www.twomoorscampaign.co.uk There are also other applications in this area, click for list of proposed Devon wind farm sites |