Community Arts Projects at Rum's Eg
Hampshire Art & Craft CIC holds great Community Fundraising Events such as quizzes and dinners to raise money for our own Community Arts Projects. Click here to see the latest events.
We are currently developing our infrastructure and volunteer teams to organise this valuable outreach work to support our Community with some new projects. We are actively looking for business sponsors and grant funding to help us fund new projects. Click here if you would like to support this work.
We are currently developing our infrastructure and volunteer teams to organise this valuable outreach work to support our Community with some new projects. We are actively looking for business sponsors and grant funding to help us fund new projects. Click here if you would like to support this work.
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Community use of our Leckford Art StudioIn-house workshops, courses, hen parties and rental of the Leckford Art Studio brings in essential income to help run the enterprise but the facilities are available one day a week, free of charge, for the use of charities or deserving community groups. We also subsidise workshops for children and young people in our Art Studio. It is available for Artist Residencies in the Summer holiday season. If you are a charity or community group interested in booking our Art Studio or using the facilities free of charge, please use our Contact Form to get in touch.
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Family Arts/Science Workshop
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Microbial Worlds Schools Arts & Science Project
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Art and Singing Sessions
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Prescription Arts - a Hampshire Art & Craft CIC 'Arts for Wellbeing' Project - starting January 2017Art and singing workshops at Rum's Eg, funded by HA&C CIC Community Fundraising Events - prescribed by local medical practitioners for patients suffering from loneliness, anxiety, stress and depression - click here for more information
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Previous Community Arts Projects
Romsey Community Lantern Project - December 2016
General Manager, Rebecca Maddox at the 2016 Lantern Parade with Rum's Eg's sea horse!
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'Royal Blood' schools glass-making project Summer 2016
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Funded by HA&C CIC Fundraising Events and Hampshire County Council
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Glass artist Sue Tinkler working with pupils from Awbridge Primary School
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West Wellow Primary School
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'Royal Blood' was Hampshire Cultural Trust's 'Big Theme' for galleries and museums in 2016. This Community Arts Project was associated with one of our exhibitions at Romsey Abbey. Sue Tinkler, a Rum's Eg Glass Artist, worked with schoolchildren in three local primary schools to produce elements of a glass installation which went on show at Romsey Abbey as part of our 'Dissolution & Revolution' glass and ceramics exhibition 3 August to 4 Sept. The finished pieces have now been returned to the schools.
Please email siriol@hampshireartandcraft.org if your school would like to get involved with an Arts Project in the future or if you would like to offer business sponsorship for such a project.
Please email siriol@hampshireartandcraft.org if your school would like to get involved with an Arts Project in the future or if you would like to offer business sponsorship for such a project.
Hampshire Art & Craft CIC are now beginning to expand their Community Arts brief and have been working with teachers and children at three local primary schools in June (Halterworth, Awbridge and West Wellow) on this special project. Funds were raised by Rum’s Eg "Community Events Fundraising" volunteer team for this Community Arts Project; to find out about previous and future fundraising events at Rum's Eg click here... Together with funding to support the project from Hampshire County Council, Sue Tinkler (a glass artist from Winchester whose work is regularly shown at Rum's Eg) was enabled to go into each of the three schools with two student assistants and work with the children to create three glasswork panels. The fired, fused and completed schools’ panels were shown alongside inspiring glass and ceramic work by some of the best South of England makers in our exhibition entitled ‘Dissolution & Revolution’ which was inspired by the Royal Blood theme and the turbulent history of Romsey Abbey including the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII and Cromwell’s Revolution. Many of the pieces were specifically created for this exhibition.
Cheryl Burton from Awbridge Primary School said: ‘what an amazing morning the Year 5 and 6 children had working with Sue. It was such a great project to be a part of. In the lead-up session the previous week, we linked the theme to history and the children were really eager to find out more - they especially enjoyed the links to William II. Only a few of them had knowledge about Romsey's royal links and I was surprised to find that some had not heard of Broadlands! So a very successful local history lesson there! They all came up with designs of their own - there were some coats of arms, some depicting arrows or crowns, some with warships or medals. Sue was great because she took the designs for each group of 12 and clearly modelled how to simplify it if it was detailed. All the children were totally engrossed in their work and we were so pleased with the outcomes. Sue complemented the children on their good listening skills and it was a very successful morning. We look forward to seeing the display at the Abbey in August - thank you so much for including Awbridge in this project!”
Sue Tinkler and her assistants also enjoyed the experience and were full of respect for primary school teachers as they were all completely exhausted after three days! Rum’s Eg, the Artists and the Schools would like to thank the Rev Canon Tim Sledge for the opportunity to show their work in such spectacular and inspiring surroundings and to thank the Abbey team for their assistance.
Sue Tinkler and her assistants also enjoyed the experience and were full of respect for primary school teachers as they were all completely exhausted after three days! Rum’s Eg, the Artists and the Schools would like to thank the Rev Canon Tim Sledge for the opportunity to show their work in such spectacular and inspiring surroundings and to thank the Abbey team for their assistance.
Pupils creating their glasswork at Awbridge Primary School
All fired and looking great!
Romsey River Art Action Day - 1st May 2016
with a display of Artwork and photographs at Rum's Eg in the Leckford Art Studio - 29 July to 14 August
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Rum's Eg artists collaborated with 5 other Community groups in a River Art Action Day on 1st May to help the Romsey Riverwalk Restoration Project to restore this popular beauty spot at the Causeway on the River Test which was badly damaged in the storms of 2014. RRR has been set up by local residents to raise funds to repair/restore the riverbank on the River Test between Middlebridge and the kissing gate by Sadler’s Mill. It is a much-loved beauty spot and frequently features in artists’ paintings and drawings.
Rum’s Eg supported this community effort as part of our Community Arts Development Programme; with the help of our volunteer Community Arts Coordinator, Jill Searl, we organised a River Art Action Day on 1st May. Artists spent the day on The Causeway, painting/drawing/sculpting/writing about what they saw, what they might see if the improvements are carried out and what they will see if they are not! There will be an exhibition of work in the Gallery later in the year with associated publicity. Test Valley Arts Bus was parked in the Memorial Park providing activities for children and there was a nature trail. |
"Romsey Riverwalk Restoration Project and Rum’s Eg Art and Craft Gallery would like to extend appreciative thanks to all who contributed so much to the success of this joint project: the 6 artists who gamely shared their talents with a number of interested passers-by (and who wish to return!); volunteers from Romsey Men’s Shed who made the jig that held the reinforcement bags they so energetically filled (with gravel and soil kindly donated by Ace Liftaway); Curb Kitchen whose amazing “waste cakes” kept everyone going all through the day; Test Valley Arts Foundation who provided the Arts Bus stationed in the Memorial Park; Transition Town Romsey for their display about climate change and flooding, and the loan of microscopes which made popular viewing of samples of river life; Sally Lamb of the Park Café whose practical assistance and support proved invaluable; the mayor, Dorothy Baverstock for her generous funding and personal endorsement of the project; and last but not least the many local residents and visitors who offered support by participating, sponsoring bags and making donations. As always, there were others too numerous to mention whose behind-the-scenes support and hard work made the day so enjoyable – on the evidence of this event, Romsey has every reason to be proud of its community spirit! Heartfelt thanks to all of you."
Yours sincerely,
Mavis Sawdy and Amanda Deeming (RRR)
Siriol Sherlock and Jill Searl (Rum’s Eg)
Yours sincerely,
Mavis Sawdy and Amanda Deeming (RRR)
Siriol Sherlock and Jill Searl (Rum’s Eg)
Young Art in the Park - 24 April 2016
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Rum's Eg supported 'Young Art in the Park' on 24 April 2016 - this was a partnership between Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Hampshire Collegiate School, 16 other local schools, artists and conservation groups. Our aim was to inspire children and adults alike to see the connection between people and nature in a new creative light. The schools Art installations formed an Art Trail at Embley Park. The best work will go on to form part of a Youth Art Show at The Hillier Gardens. Sarah Waters, one of Rum's Eg textile artists and Jill Searl (Rum's Eg volunteer Community Arts Coordinator) worked with the children to make felt bees and help draw attention to their importance in our environment. Profits from the felt bees will go to HA&C Community Arts Fund.
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Katy Martin on Radio SolentKaty Martin followed one of our Community activities on her Radio Solent programme - to hear her broadcast, recorded when she came to Rum's Eg to meet some children from Oak Lodge School who took part in a knitting workshop in February, please click here......
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Esther Rantzen and Romsey Young CarersOn 29th March 2014, Esther came to open our 2nd floor Education and Community Suite on the second floor at Rum's Eg and chatted to young participants in a Paper Cut Card Workshop who included several Romsey Young Carers.
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Murray Marks - Shaker Box workshop for Headway service users
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Murray Marks recently worked with 6 people with a range of disabilities who all managed to climb the stairs to our Leckford Art Studio and all went home, proudly holding their own oval shaker boxes - completed and ready to polish! They were absolutely delighted and so was Murray.
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Community Work by Our Artists
Our artists are encouraged and enabled to offer some of their valuable time to work with disadvantaged or deserving individuals and groups in their own localities.
We have many Artists and Volunteers on our books who are experienced and ready to work with all ages and abilities either in our own facilities or off site. Kat Hansford - an Artist and one of our staff team at Rum's Eg - spent a day working with the Children at Oak Lodge making exotic flowers from recycled plastic bottles. Oak Lodge is a school for secondary age pupils, age 11- 16, which caters for pupils with a wide range of special needs. The centre provides support for pupils diagnosed as high functioning Autistic or Asperger and provides a safe, secure and nurturing environment for pupils.
We have many Artists and Volunteers on our books who are experienced and ready to work with all ages and abilities either in our own facilities or off site. Kat Hansford - an Artist and one of our staff team at Rum's Eg - spent a day working with the Children at Oak Lodge making exotic flowers from recycled plastic bottles. Oak Lodge is a school for secondary age pupils, age 11- 16, which caters for pupils with a wide range of special needs. The centre provides support for pupils diagnosed as high functioning Autistic or Asperger and provides a safe, secure and nurturing environment for pupils.
Exotic flowers created by Kat Hansford and the young people at Oak Lodge
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Winning Christmas Card Design - ‘Christmas Delivery’ - by Kate Cooke
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Charity Christmas Card Competition 2013Rum's Eg sold Charity Christmas Cards in December 2013 to support the Charity Blood Pressure UK.
Our Artists were invited to enter artwork in a competition. The winning designs were selected by Professor Graham MacGregor, Esther Rantzen, Chris Packham and HA&C Director Siriol Sherlock. Four winning designs sold in large quantities at Rum's Eg and directly from the charity. To find out about the valuable work done by Blood Pressure UK go to www.bloodpressureuk.org First place was awarded to Kate Cooke for her ‘Christmas Delivery’ - mixed media collage; in second place, ‘Christmas Garden’ – paper, collage and watercolour by Chrissie Collins; in third place, ‘Madonna and Child’ – mixed media by Teresa Rogers; in fourth place, ‘With Love at Christmas’ – acrylic on paper by Helen Polden |
Working with Headway Charity
This piece was written by Vicky Couling after she brought some of the service users from Headway, who are based in Totton, to visit Rum's Eg:
'I am a Rehabilitation Officer at Headway Southampton. We work with people who have an acquired brain injury to support them to deal with their problems and to try and promote independence in as many areas as possible.
We brought a small group to Rum's Eg to join a weaving workshop one morning. It was a highly successful event and our service users thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The two tutors were extremely knowledgeable and engaging and the group were able to try out the weaving techniques and take home something that they made during the session. They got a lot out of the workshop and it was a very valuable experience, particularly for one woman who before her brain injury had been very competent in many crafts but had lost confidence in her ability. She was so delighted that she remembered what to do and this has led to her revisiting some hobbies that she had doubted she would be able to cope with.
After sustaining a life changing brain injury many people lose confidence in many areas of their lives and finding new hobbies and interests or as in this case just mentioned, someone rediscovering old skills, is such a wonderful boost. For many people lifestyle situations can change quite dramatically. Trying new things or simply going out can be out of reach financially. Getting people back into the community after social isolation, meeting new people and experiencing new and positive situations is vital in the rehabilitative process.
Creative workshop environments help health and well being, coordination, dexterity, social skills and therefore are a vital part of continuing recovery. Sadly as a small charity and with limited funds, Headway is not able to provide specialist workshops and so facilities available at Rum's Eg are incredibly beneficial and a wonderful resource. The massive benefits that our service users receive from such experiences are enormous. We hope to be able to participate more in the future.'
'I am a Rehabilitation Officer at Headway Southampton. We work with people who have an acquired brain injury to support them to deal with their problems and to try and promote independence in as many areas as possible.
We brought a small group to Rum's Eg to join a weaving workshop one morning. It was a highly successful event and our service users thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The two tutors were extremely knowledgeable and engaging and the group were able to try out the weaving techniques and take home something that they made during the session. They got a lot out of the workshop and it was a very valuable experience, particularly for one woman who before her brain injury had been very competent in many crafts but had lost confidence in her ability. She was so delighted that she remembered what to do and this has led to her revisiting some hobbies that she had doubted she would be able to cope with.
After sustaining a life changing brain injury many people lose confidence in many areas of their lives and finding new hobbies and interests or as in this case just mentioned, someone rediscovering old skills, is such a wonderful boost. For many people lifestyle situations can change quite dramatically. Trying new things or simply going out can be out of reach financially. Getting people back into the community after social isolation, meeting new people and experiencing new and positive situations is vital in the rehabilitative process.
Creative workshop environments help health and well being, coordination, dexterity, social skills and therefore are a vital part of continuing recovery. Sadly as a small charity and with limited funds, Headway is not able to provide specialist workshops and so facilities available at Rum's Eg are incredibly beneficial and a wonderful resource. The massive benefits that our service users receive from such experiences are enormous. We hope to be able to participate more in the future.'
