Our Forest of Imagination 2018 Artists include:
House of Fairy Tales
THE SWEVENAUGHTS DREAM RECYCLERS: An exploratory adventure that takes children to travel with the Swevenaughts, the guardians of the faraway underground Dreaming City, to collect the dream fragments surrounding the Kingsmead Square and re-combobulate the daydreams into energy to power their city.
The House of Fairy Tales is a national children’s arts charity that exists to engage with young people of all ages from any socio economic or cultural background. Central to the House of Fairy Tales is the belief that providing imaginative spaces to learn and play is not just about creating happy children but happy families, healthier communities and a thriving society too.
Tomas Saraceno
Tomas Saraceno and his studio are developing ideas for Forest of Imagination 2018 to propose involving the community to create a Museo Aero Solar to engage visitors and to think about the future of the spaces being used for the event.
Tomas Saraceno’s (b.1973, Argentina) oeuvre could be seen as an ongoing research, informed by the worlds of art, architecture, natural sciences, astrophysics and engineering; his floating sculptures, community projects and interactive installations propose and explore new, sustainable ways of inhabiting and sensing the environment. Aerocene, an open-source community project for artistic and scientific exploration initiated from Saraceno’s vision, becomes buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth.
Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware is planning a soundscape journey in trees along the wildlife corridor that allows a new interpretation of the city. This also links with an aspiration to make sure the installations offer a unique and inclusive experience for all users with a particular emphasis on accessibility and the creation of a multi sensory trail. He proposes to work closely with Three Ways School in Bath http://www.threeways.co.uk/about-three-ways (which provides for children with Special Educational Needs – a specialist for Physical and Sensory and a School of Creativity) on this.
Shai Akram
Shai Akram proposes to create an immersive installation/workshops that explores childhood through the a full body experience of the adult, to remind and reinforce the value of seeing the world a new frame of reference, and to remove our filters and obstacles of adult self consciousness to revel in a childlike world of invention, curiosity and marvel.
Shai Akram is co-found of Studio Alt Shift – Studio Alt Shift is a design studio focussed upon material research and production of spaces and objects.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
FCBS will design a site-specific interactive series of installations for the event.
Street Furniture: The design and build of additional street furniture to increase the quantity of work space on Kingsmead Square. The design is intended to echo moments from the forest floor, implying a series of tree stumps and fallen logs to move over, under, across and through. They will offer spaces for rest, spaces for activity, and spaces for collaboration.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is an architectural and urban design practice with an international reputation for design quality, for pioneering environmental expertise and a progressive architectural approach.
5x5x5=creativity artists
5x5x5=creativity artists will devise and lead creative interdisciplinary workshops for children and young people during the event – this will include workshops with local schools on 28 September. The workshops will include, theatre, performance, design, science and art. Themes will link directly to Forest of Imagination and Kids Lit Fest.
5x5x5=creativity is an independent arts-based action research organisation which supports children in their exploration and expression of ideas, helping them develop creative skills for life.
Toby Thompson
Toby will create a piece of spoken word poetry for the opening night of Forest.
Toby Thompson is a writer and performer of thoughts and feelings. Not just his own, but somehow yours too. His poetry displays his delight in life’s uncertainties and absurdities and his uniquely rhythmic and musical style is lyrical, beguiling, playful and poignant.
Alison Harper
Community making – re-imagining materials to create a veil around the Great Plane Tree and a Den under the Willow Tree.
Piers Taylor and Carpenter Oak and Woodland
Piers Taylor will work with Carpenter Oak and Woodland to design and install a series of large timber installations made from long forest thinning poles up to 12m high. Each pyramid will include a brightly coloured lantern to illuminate the night forest.
Piers Taylor is an internationally acclaimed architect, famous for his BBC TV series ‘The House that £100K built’.
Carpenter Oak and Woodland are an extraordinary team of designers, engineers and carpenters that create unique animal architecture. They are leading specialists in oak framed houses, oak timber engineered buildings and historic building conservation.
Conor Busuttil
Conor Busuttil will co-design a series of paintings on the pavement and hoardings at Bath Quays, working with local schools and in collaboration with Bath Kids Lit Fest 2018.
Adrian Snell
Theatre Bus: Music Therapist, Threeways School, Sound installation
Sophie Erin Cooper and/or RIV
Create a giant miniature forest, designing and creating small trees to add to the growing 3D forest.
Marc Parrett
Interactive performance: Puppet based interactive walkabout performance
Matt Leece, Ray Clarke and Paul Bynoth
Drawing Machines: Interact with 3 different drawing machines that represent a different habitat within the Forest – the floor, the understory and the canopy. The different marks created will represent some of the animals that live within these habitats.
Jess Palmer
Forest Maze: Draw on the Wall : Children of all ages are invited to come and draw or graffiti or write on the walls of our Paper Maze. Modelled on the Bath Maze by Pulteney Bridge, the Paper Maze is a series of curving walls which lead to a central Drawing Spot where children can lie or sit on the ground and draw.
Pippa Pixley
Scribble and Scrunch: Multi-Sensory Interactive Storytelling and Art Workshop. Aimed at children aged 3-7 years old
Clare Day
Clay Forest: Everyone can take part in making a collaborative clay forest, (trees, dens, animals, treehouses, mini-worlds with characters to tell stories in). Come along and play with clay!
Catharine Naylor
Book making & print making: Taking inspiration from the Forest of Imagination
Alice Maddicott
The City of Trees: A creative writing workshop for children to create an overgrown city inspired by Bath and the Forest of Imagination.
Architecture Is..
Design School (Ages 7+): An interactive design school where you will be asked to design and make your own space for the city, using drawing, collaging and model making.
Margarita Sidirokastriti
Globary: The globary is a global library. It is mobile and it carries illustrated books from around the world in their original language. This creative writing workshop is inspired by the imagery of a chosen book.
Edward Bettella
Live sound piece performance
Sophie Erin Cooper
Create a giant miniature forest, designing and creating small trees to add to the growing 3D forest.
Rick Hall
Creative and curious science busking
Room 13
Street Freedom for Wildlife: Road Signs : Design and make safety and adventure road signs for all those creatures that fancy a day trip, a night out on the town or just hanging with their friends. Reclaiming the streets for our furry, feathered and many legged friends.
Let the car, bus and lorry drivers, cyclists and pedestrians know of the parallel wildlife worlds.
Gemma Paris Romeira
The House Under the Snow: A collaborative drawing of the plant species that are stored in the World Bank of Seeds in Svalbard to make visible all this diversity of plant species that are necessary to maintain life on Earth.
James Randall
‘Imagine and Write: A Story in the Forest’: Guided writing exercise developing individual stories set within and springing out of the Forest of Imagination setting, based on imaginary characters living in the forest.
Mark E Smith
Fantasy Garden: A drop in communal collage taking inspiration from the Forest of Imagination