Bury

Text Art Animation

Delivery: 16^th May to 20^th June 2009

Artist/s: Lisa Stansbie (Text Artist), Kavyasiddhi Mulvey (Screenwriter) & Andy Sykes (Animator)

Outputs: 6 short animations

The focus of the project was to work with a group of local residents to develop a series of digital art work inspired by the annual Bury Text Festival. The project aimed to engage the local community to serve as a fun, accessible and relevant introduction to the concept behind Text Art.

The project was delivered in partnership with Bury Council’s Arts Development Service and recruitment was targeted at members of the local Script.Com and Eagles Asylum community groups.

Through a series of workshop sessions the group created a collection of animations exploring topics such as narrative, extinct words, fonts, word play and local history. The final animations were showcased at the Bury Met in June 2009.

“It has inspired lateral thinking – new approaches and I feel more in contact with what is happening in wider areas of creativity”. – participant from Script.Com

The project was an opportunity for participants to be trained to create relevant and meaningful digital art content, drawing on writing and animation skills in collaboration with artists from these fields.

You can find out more about Bury Council’s Arts Development Service here