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ISSUE 04

CONTENT PLANNING & WRITING: Lucy Rendle

PROMOTION & WRITING: Jack Hadley
LOGO, DESIGN, ILLUSTRATION & EDITING: Chris Jones
ILLUSTRATION & ART DIRECTION: Sam Taylor
GUESTS: Rachel Hutchinson, Alexandra Rowan, Emma Guppy, Johnathan Atter
POETRY COMPETITION: Sarah James, John Taylor, Ruth Stacey

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FRONT COVER DESIGN: Chris Jones

CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATORS:
Rachel Boulton, Sally Jane Rich, Beth Walrond,
Jian Yang Dong, Caroline Liddington, Bobby Cheung,
Lucy Rendle, Sam Taylor
BACK COVER IMAGERY: PRINTED BY:
Jack Hadley & Chris Jones Mike Welgan
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 What’s in the Box [04]
Box Team and Guests [06]
42 Open Mic Night [08]
Art Map : Malvern [10]
Metamorphosis II [12]
Guest Poem [14]
AoTM - Emma Guppy [16]
Box Poem II [19]
PotM - TKD-ART [20]
Box Poem II [22]
Cogito Ergo Sum [24]
WLF : Parole Parlate [28]
Box Poem III [32]
AIMs [33]
The Hidden Green City [34]
May Exhibitions [36]
WAW / Cafe Events [37]

All artwork submitted to the Box is used

with permission of the original owner. All
rights belong to the creators.

ILLUSTRATION: Chris Jones

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 -FROM THE TEAM-

~Lucy & Jack talk 42

~Lucy writes about the Literary Festival
~Chris continues his Metamorphosis report.
~Sam takes Box to Malvern

-GUESTS-
~Rachel Hutchinson provides poetry
~Alex Rowan gives an insight into AIMS
~We have entrants for our Poetry Competition!

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~Our Artists of the Month are

Emma Guppy

Jonathan Atter

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ILLUSTRATION: Chris Jones & Sam Taylor

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 The Box’s main journalist and The Box’s designer,
photographer. Lucy provided editor and illustrator. This
a box fairy for the front cover, month’s front cover draws
and has a nice set of article upon other artist’s voices to
for you this month, including create a new vision for the
a secret garden magazine.

The Box’s promotor. The Our other artist in residence.

Royal Wedding will not be He is currently exploring Art
quite remembered the same in Malvern and managing
as it was in Worcester. our event pages for us.

This month, the Box nearly came to a standstill. A slight spillage on the main hub of
our magazine nearly ended this month’s issue! Panic over, we have the finished zine here
for you! Moral of the story folks, back up your stuff and don’t eat or drink next to your
computers.

The Box Team have wanted to make this issue a more collaborative venture, visually. The
front cover started as the template for a group project. Conducted completely online
through email, social networking and video conferencing - the artists on the cover have very
kindly donated artwork to the zine.

[They were asked to personify an item from their attic]

Please check out their websites on our guest page! Look forward to more collaborative
ventures next month! We have some exciting instalments on the way. For this issue we
have more details on the Worcester Literary Festival and the 42 Gothic Exhibition.
Also we have an interview from illustrator Emma Guppy, and some poetry from Rachel
Hutchinson, and some submissions for the Big Poetry Competition!

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 This month, our guests include our guest poet
and a collection of image makers from all.
We want to thank them - firstly for kindly
allowing us to use their material, secondly for
giving us our wonderful front cover and content

“Drawing is a kind of “Lots of different styles,

freedom for the mind; but being mainly I’ve just been playing
a professional takes time and about and having fun with
experience. I am not quite there writing, which is what poetry
yet, but The Box is another should be about. ”
phase of the journey.”

“My characterization is of a
pawn from a chess set. I was
interested in the relationships the
different pieces would have with
each other, in terms of power, if
they were made into “people.” I
am currently working on the other
characters.”
“My image was inspired by
rock pooling on the beach. I
wanted to explore its magical
possibilities .I also love the
idea of this glass vase sloshing
around in somebody’s attic !”

“Having previously done a “This is Bobby, hope that you

project on my own attic, I was like my image...bye bye!”
happy to help out with the
magazine.”

“As described, I looked up attic “I was inspired by a bowling pin

things, and made them more in the attic. It had ivy painted
human.” on it, so I thought I would lift
this to emphasise character”

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42 words
words & photography
Worcester’s first alternative open
mic night at Worcester Arts
Workshop
A Gothic treat awaited us down in
the depths of the Worcester Arts
Workshop cellar.
Jack and I were invited by Glenn and
Angela James to attend their first
Gothic, Horror, Sci-fi and Fantasy
open mic night.
A collection of fans waited in the darkness and atmospheric gallery in anticipation of the
performers.
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“42 is Worcester’s one and only Gothic,
Horror, Sci-fi and Fantasy open mic
night brought to you by G&A Presents.
This is a unique opportunity for budding
scribes and writers with a passion for
these genres to make their voices heard.
“
Glenn and Angela James
42’s group is unique to
Worcester, whether you’re a
die-hard Gothic worshiper,
or a lover of Doctor Who,
or one who appreciates the
bizarre side of life. Every
taste was catered for, and
even music in between
performances serenaded us
with sci-fi inspired songs.
 Performers included;

The very talented Suz Winspear who

read a variety of dark-humoured,
inspired and beautifully descriptive
short stories. The theatrical Mark
Ellis, writer-in-residence at the
Worcester Arts Workshop, treated
the crowd with some very bizarre
and enchanting tales, which were not
intended for the faint hearted.

The cofounder Glenn read narratives about Worcester Cathedral and its History. They were
insightful stories which gave a different perception of our fair city’s landmark (you would
never think of it in the same way again!)

Sean Jeffrey and Anna Mason, the acoustic duo who performed an excellent musical of
fantasy Sci-fi pieces to accompany the performances. Pete Bevan, who equally enchanted
the attentive audience with his dark interpretations’ of life and death.

There is much more to come

with further open mic nights.
We will keep you updated.
For more information please
visit

www.gapresents.co.uk/42
or contact 0844 500 6181
The background gallery work displayed in the above photography, belongs to Sam Francisco 9
ART MAP: MALVERN words & illustration

One day I visited Malvern. Though living quite close to the town, I had
never been there before and I was curious to find about the art scene. I
was pleasantly surprised by how much I found there;
I started at the Original Art Work Store just off Church Street. The walls featured an diverse
variety of paintings. All originals, displaying various styles, walks of life, landscapes to fine
art figurative paintings, Victorian to contemporary and from local to regional. It boosts an
impressive collection from artists. Anthony Bridge, a contemporary Oil landscape painter
who has painted everyday for 600 days in all weathers.

Rebecca White is a contemporary fine artist who uses

gestural marks in her paintings to capture the anxieties
in situations she sees. Alan Brown, the shop owner, had
documented a story, on how he woke up from brain surgery,
with the gift of being an artist. He works in Acrylics to create
surreal environments.

My next stop was the Malvern Hills Gallery, a place that looks
small on the inside, but vastly spaced on the inside. Every
wallspace was devoted to local artists and the building is
a community lead building, where creatives help fund and
run the place. They have a small room located in the back
for small exhibitions, one currently held was by Rebecca
Tibbutt, a photographer [featured in our last issue] who focuses
on the hidden world and captures the beauty of life that you
wouldn’t normally see.
The next exhibition
is by Ruth Booth.
They also had art
by Fran Horne
of selected words
taken from book
pages to create new
sentences.

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Iapetus gallery is a more
comically run place, which
sells fine jewellery, cards and
gifts. It holds true for being
different, most of the stuff Just past the Malvern Hills
is local or national produce. Gallery up St Ann’s Road is
It is a great place to pick Artist Open Studio. I visited
up something unique, for this last, an amazing place
example; a hand sewn clock which was a downstairs
and jewellery made out of house converted into an
buttons. They have done Aladdin’s cave. It’s a small tea
a great job in not making room/ Vintage shop which
their shop too commercial sells clothes, jewellery, bags,
and retain integrity to an tea sets and so much more.
abundance of uniquely Think of it as two rooms
creative items. full of interesting things that
have character and charm
to each item, it is definitely
worth a look.

Malvern has a lot to offer; It holds a very proud collection

of artists from all walks of life, along with a community of
well run studios and galleries. This visit has certainly changed
any perspective of Malvern being just a small quiet town on
the big hill. They also have a theatre holding shows regularly,
as well as a number of small gallery/frame shops hosting
even more art. It shows that spending a day going out to
explore, experience and try something new, is worth all the
while. Even when it is just past the doorstep.
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In Issue 03, I covered the first artists that spoke at words & illustration
Falmouth Illustration Symposium 2011. The day was an
interesting insight into the current practices of illustration,
and how artists adapt their imaginations to literature.

METAMORPHOSIS: PART II
On Drawing, Magic Numbers & Hoaxes
John Vernon Lord, one of the great
masters of Illustration, has produced a
fascinating collection of work, including
a adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. In this
version, Lord decides to illustrate Carroll’s
narrative in first person perspective,
choosing not to illustrate Alice and reader
sees everything from her viewpoint. One
reason for this decision was that Tenniel’s
Alice is ultimately regarded as the one true
interpretation of the protagonist.
He began his talk with his own description
of Metamorphosis; “going from one thing to
another.” Lord discusses a number of his
The drawing is a journey across paper
[as Paul Klee famously quoted, drawing
is taking ‘a line for a walk’]. Usually, an
artist never knows what the end game of
their work is. They have a vision, but it is
deciding on the strange conclusion; when
does an artist decides a work is finished?
“Woe to you the day it is said that you are finished!
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What
nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it,
to kill it, to rid it of its soul – to give it its final
blow; the most unfortunate one for the painter as
well as for the picture.”
Pablo Picasso

works, applying the metamorphosis to

theory and how he has adapted himself
to a piece of literature. His life experience
feeds into his visual language, drawing is
all about the interpretation of that which
surrounds the artist. The artist transcribes
their experience, documenting details
onto paper, then the audience interprets
the drawings, based upon their own
experience. Thus drawing is a transition
of metamorphosis from artist to reader,
object to subject.
One example was Lord’s adaptation
of Aesop’s Fables. The characters are
personified animals from a zoo, and the
backgrounds are the contemporary settings
from which Lord has hybridised from his
home in the countryside.
There was Lord’s own comparison to
drawing from observation, and from the
imagination, and the cycle between them.
How observation must feed imagination,
rather than the other way round.
Ironically in this Issue we have an article on
the Worcester group 42, Lord has an obsession
with the magic number 42, an obsession
inspired by Lewis Carroll (the number is
heavily prominent in his narratives; like the
famous Court Rule [anyone in court over
two and forty foot high must leave the
court room], also, the original Alice had 42
illustrations). It is also The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy’s answer for the meaning of
life, the universe, everything.

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Lord dedicated an entire image to the number 42 in his own adaptation
of Alice in Wonderland. [I would speculate, since Lord times how
long he takes to create an image, he would have worked on the image
in a factor of 42!]

Lord’s talk was as humorous as his work. He mentioned a story

that once he drew his studio keys for a book project. One day
he lost the keys. The original drawing was locked in the studio.
Lord had to borrow one of the books from a neighbour, take it
to the key cutters to have an exact replica of the drawing in key
form. Hence skillful observational drawing can be an essential
metamorphosis indeed.

The remainder of the talk went into Lord’s works and his
technique is a traditional illustrator. I recommend his book
“Drawing Upon Drawing,” if you want to read further on Lord,
his works and thoery.

Catrin Morgan, a tutor on the MA course, then spoke for

ten minutes. She alluded illustrator as Surgeons [using this
as a metaphor for cameramen] and Magicians [a metaphor
for a painter. Like cutter bees - the illustrator is given,
brought about, adapts and cuts away and into the text. The
illustration remains in the negative space around the text.

She spoke about the crux of the moment - the moment

before something happens, which Lord had also
previously touched upon, Morgan alludes to Xeno’s
Paradox of the Arrow [for at any one moment in time,
the arrow is in a space and is still]. The illustrator has to
pick the moment that heightens the text, but this is a
paradox in its own right. The illustrator can illustrate
the text in any number of ways, but it is still only
their interpretation. The final interpretation is still
made, with images or none, by the audience.

Morgan’s practice specialises in moments of

deception. Her first book ‘Phantom Settlements’
has just been released by Ditto Press.

In the next part, I will conclude with George

Hardie, Amelia Johnstone, Lorenzo Mattotti
and the Question time.
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Conversation...

On holiday,
you consume the disarray
that lay
in lace and scarlet silk across the floor,
pooled in hopeful silhouettes
of the woman I might be if I wore
them.

But now, you house the creased remains

of every silly dream,
and I cannot cry
because every day away was filled with beauty,
sunshine, ice-cream, perfume and delight,
an unwise cocktail,

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a misguided night,
and I pressed the postcards here in your front pocket
to remind myself of the evenings
wine would “obliviate!”

The clothes are all but worn out, in two short weeks -
the other girls looked nicer, even though
in twenty years my own daughters will
fiercely deny that it was so,
and pour their own silken fantasies into my image,

Pack their own cases, and fly into their futures

unaware,
a different perfume on their wrists,
different names across their hearts,
same perfumes and same colours on same lips
waiting to be kissed,
a world apart.

...with a suitcase
Rachel Hutchinson

ILLUSTRATION: Caroline Liddington, Jian Yang Dong & Chris Jones

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 Artist of the Month
Emma Guppy
Q1. Hello Emma. Thank
you for being with us
today. Could you tell us
what inspires you?
EG: “Hey. Well I am an individual full of contradictions.
I am very addicted to Manga and the modern Japanese
graphic style, made famous by such artists as Akira Toriyama
(Dragonball) and Osamu Teszuka (Astro Boy). I am equally
enthused by historical and technical illustrators like Geoff
Hunt, and Nicola Bayley (The Mousehole Cat).”

“My main influences lie with Military History, specifically the Napoleonic era and the ships
of Nelson’s Navy. As a result, I have a unique mix of graphic art that incorporates the
colour, properties and often subject content of ship painters throughout the ages. I basically
love highly detailed, but creative work, that shows off an artist’s skill with their media and
composition. I love to be challenged with the art I enjoy and create.”

Q2. Where did you study?

EG: “I studied at Hereford College of Arts after having
completing a BTEC Diploma in Art and Design in the same
place. I was toying with animation and archaeological art at
the time I was applying for a degree but at Hereford, I knew
I had strong and encouraging lecturers, so I was ecstatic
when they offered me a place.

I have since been living in Swansea which has given me

the fantastic opportunity to produce detailed sea studies in
Swansea Bay and the Gower, just west of the city and I am
currently living in Cambridgeshire right next to Nelson’s
home county of Norfolk”
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Q3. How do your influence feed into your creative practice?
EG: “My influences of Naval and Military fiction and epic battles are very strong in my work.
You can still see that my roots in manga play a very big part of my work, compositionally.
A lot of my paintings and illustrations have come from various books set in the French
revolutionary wars such as Patrick O’Brian, Bernard Cornwall, Allen Mallinson, Alexander Kent
and C.S Forester. I also collect and read a lot of recollections and diaries from officers who
took part in the Peninsular Campaigns and more. These works inspire me to pick up pencil
and paper and show the rest of the world how fascinating this era can be.”
Q4. What you are currently working on?
EG:“I am currently teaching in a secondary school in North Cambridgeshire and I am
thoroughly enjoying sharing my crazy obsessions with the students. All my students can tell
you my favourite colour and that I love ships. I have even had my some of my Key Stage 3
classes sat in divisions, Starboard and Larboard. They are very encompassing for my mad
ways! Teaching is a great way for artists to get recognition and keeps your skills honed and
allows you to have 12 weeks of paid holiday in which you can concentrate on your real work,
painting. When I am not working at school or at home on my artwork, I can often be found
in the local, talking nonsense!”
Q5. What are your impressions
of traditional illustration versus
digital processes, and do you think
there is a place for traditional
illustration in our increasingly
digitised world?
EG: “You cannot live without one or
t’other these days. I work with both
traditional and Photoshop. I see them as
just means to an outcome. I work with
paints, inks and paper to begin with, but
will touch up mistakes on the computer.
Being an illustrator, my prerogative is
to produce images for books/ posters/
flyers etc, so work must be versatile -
Photoshop allows this. When it comes
to paintings, I will only use paints and
canvas however, to reproduce prints, I
will take a scan of the finished piece, this
can then be put online, so even there you
have a mixed media creation.”
Interview conducted by

WORDS & ILLUSTRATION: Emma Guppy

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"When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for
you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you
are hoping for."
Anonymous
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[Box Poem 1]
Fairy tale Ending
She’s nagging again, the ungrateful cow,
moaning about the mess in her garden.
I only chopped down an old fir tree. But
her tongue strikes sharper, deeper than my axe.

A job’s a job. It’s all on my shoulders –
she won’t cut back on her furs, designer
labels, red Jimmy Choos, Prada; demands
the best teak chest for her Granny’s heirlooms.

Once she called me her oak. Now she wants more,

different. I catch her, ear pressed to our dark
windows, straining for his howling; forests
in her eyes, mossed cheeks bleeding fresh pine sap.

I’d have a wooden heart not to kill false
hopes of having me and her wild dream wolf.

POETRY: Sarah James

ILLUSTRATION: Chris Jones
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Jonathan Atter / TKD-ART
“I’m Jonathan, at 23 I’ve always lived in Worcestershire, apart from my fantastic three years in London.
I’m a Geography graduate from the LSE, but art has always been a big part of my character. I am
predominantly a portrait artist and photographer but I also use different mediums and combine them in
my work. I started drawing properly in 2007, teaching myself, often drawing a drawing a week and then
I started to put my artwork on YouTube. I film myself drawing or painting and then speed the footage up
into a couple of minutes. I have now accomplished over 3.1 million total upload views, with one drawing
in particular pulling in over 575,000 views. I sell artwork around the world using my website I created:
http://www.TKD-ART.com
I am recently starting to share my photography more. My camera often goes with me everywhere and I take
photos every day for my picture diary. I am always looking for the next shot.”
(you can find my work on YouTube, and social media sites)

What type of photography
inspires your work?
“Shots that show me
something different, or
that present the subject in a
clever manner inspires my
work. Bold landscapes and
arty images that show you
things you might overlook
are of particular interest to
me too.”
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Have you got a favourite
photographer?
“I went to Australia in
2004 and saw galleries
owned by Peter Lik, he
inspired me to really get into
photography and from then
on I starting taking loads
of images everywhere. His
long exposures and vivid
colours really captured my
imagination.”
What inspired you to be a
photographer?
“My grandfather always took
a lot of photography and
used to make calendars with
the printed photos. He gave
me my first camera which
strangely broke around the
time he died. Collectively my
grandfather and my father
always took a lot of photos
and that gave me the taste
for it.”
Do you use digital and film Were and how long did you study?
photography? “I didn’t study photography, rather I taught myself always
“I use purely digital now, taking my camera with me and taking photos every day..”
but I did use film while my
camera still worked.”

How would you

describe your style of
photography?
“I have two styles. Firstly I
take a lot of photography
showing everyday things
that people may walk past
but never really take in, I like
to share detail in buildings
and nature. My second
style is my abstract light
photography. My work is
also about capturing subjects
I am drawn to and have a
personal interest in and want
to share.”

Could you describe to

the readers your current
exhibition?
“The exhibition shows some
of my abstract work, and
also the way I generally try to
take photos in perspectives
that people might not usually
take them, or I take images
that capture a mood and
command your attention as
if you were there too.”

What do you think of the

art and culture scene in
Worcester
“It’s definitely improved since
I was younger. The venues are
great and the cafe/ gallery in
the Art Workshop is brilliant,
just what Worcester needs.”
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[Box Poem 2]
Averse Muse

If you don't want

poems written about
you, then

Don't make me fall in love with you

by seducing me softly until the honey
suckles.

You should flee female poets, their call

will transform you into a buck
leaping to escape the word dogs.

This is solid advice, it is true.

Beware, your blue eyes will turn bitter.
I am not just this season, not your bit of fun,

Because I will write poems that will petrify

your royal jelly into wax, I will
describe the growl that you make as you come.

POETRY: Ruth Stacey

ILLUSTRATION: Chris Jones
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 COGITO ERGO SUM article by
[I think therefore I am]
The final show
The weather stayed bright for us as we went to interview some
final year students at Worcester University. Here some of the
finest students will be show casing their illustrative, film and
digital creations at the university for the Final Show in May.
We managed to interview some of this talented group

Elisaveta Petrova

What inspired you to study your subject?

“I have been drawing since I was born and there was
nothing else I wanted to do.”

How long is your current course and do you wish

to take on further education?
“It is my third year at Worcester University. For now I
wish not to study. The academic side of art does not
appeal to me, I feel best in a studio surrounded by
creative people.”

Next up was Frank, whose

creative process is rather
unique.
Frank Stiles

What inspires you to work

in your chosen medium?
“The styles of film that have
either been forgotten and
those found in mediums like
video games.”
How would you describe your creative style?
“A focus on story, without the conventional and expected use of exceeded dialogue and
exposition, I want to emphasise the setting and mood of the narrative.”
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Could you describe to
readers your current
exhibition and what
readers can expect to see
from you?
“My work being exhibited
evolves a short film witch
questions whether artistic
affects support or hinder.
The story is simple and is
mostly conveyed through
music, setting, video footage
and 2D animation along with a bulk of live action footage. Additional work plays/stories
and opening sequence effects.”

Finally we interviewed Ben who is studying

Digital Film production

What inspired you to study your

subject?
“Saving Private Ryan made me want to
make film”

[Good choice, I think as its one of the greatest

films ever made in my opinion,] Could you
describe to the readers about your
exhibition at the uni, so the readers
know what to expect?
“I will be showing two original films,
period pieces both written, directed, edited
by myself and a film that I have written
and sound-tracked by myself.”
So if we have enticed you enough with this
enlightening taster, support art and education go
view and admire some of Worcester’s young up
and coming creatives. The end of year exhibition
showing from 22 May. We wish all the 3rd year ARTWORK: Ellie, Frank and Ben
students the best of luck in the future from The INCIDENTAL IMAGERY: Sam Taylor
Box Zine team.
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 UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER PRESENTS: COGITO ERGO SUM – A
THREE YEAR CULMINATION OF CREATIVITY FROM THE DIGITAL
ART CENTRE ENCOMPASSING SUBJECTS AS DIVERSE AS: ANIMATION,
ILLUSTRATION, PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM AND DESIGN.

UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER - DIGITAL ART CENTER, (25-29TH of May) will

be hosting the final show entitled: COGITO ERGO SUM.
This is a unique opportunity to see a selection of fresh and creative work, introducing a
new generation of digital artists.
The digital arts centre aims to encourage and inspire students in a unique learning
environment, which prepares them for the future and provides them with the skills to
become leaders in their respective industry.

This year boasts a multifaceted show with a broad selection of disciplines from
experimental photography to sustainable design. Students from this year have worked
on a variety of projects including live briefs with clients such as Worcester City Council,
English Heritage, The National Trust and Westons Cider.

With a wide gamut of creative subjects, this year sees the annual show proud to expand
the event into the Digital Arts Centre and Cotswold Suite at the Henwick Road Campus.
The show will run for public viewing from Thursday May 26th until Sunday May 29th, 10
AM to 4 PM.

This is an exciting opportunity to see the very best creative output to emerge from the
University of Worcester in 2011.

For more information and a PDF or print catalogue please visit:

www.cogitoergosum.co.uk
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Worcester Literary Festival’s
‘Parole Parlate’
On a hot spring evening, Jack
and I were part of an audience,
patiently awaiting a talented array
of poets. They were ready to make
their mark during this open-mic
night, hosted in the top function
room of The Little Venice.
We were kindly invited by Lisa
Ventura to this event. It has
been very successful and has
been presented to encourage
all creative writers to enter
the Worcestershire Literary
Festival’s competition, to find
Worcestershire’s very first Poet
Laureate.
The Box Zine Big Poetry competition
will be collaborating with Worcester
Literary Festival. This will enable
our readers, who enter, to have
the opportunity to perform at the
festival, alongside poets from across
Worcestershire.

There were nine performers, of all ages

and experience, all with very strong and
diverse messages to express though
spoken word. The event featured a show
case of poets; including Roy McFarlane,
Birmingham’s Poet Laureate 2010/11,
and Laura Dedicoat, Worcestershire’s
current Young Poet Laureate.
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 The search for Worcestershire’s first Poet
Laureate begins. To enter please go to;

www.worcslitfest.com

See our blog for more details on the Big Poetry

Competition;

http://boxzine.tumblr.com/

You can get more information about deadlines

and entry forms on Box Zine’s BIG Poetry
Competition.

words & photography

This will be running along side
Worcestershire Literary Festival. So
do not delay any further and send all
entries to

the-box-zine@hotmail.co.uk

Please Subject emails with “the Big

Poetry Competition” and await to
see if you are one of the performers
reading at the Worcestershire
Literary Festivals, plus there will be
some great prizes up for grabs too!

Good Luck to you.

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 Mondays – Manic Mondays!
The ultimate student night out with DJ Nash playing the best in RnB, Hip- Hop,
Funky House and Pop. * Drinks offers from £1.25 * 9pm till Late.

Tuesdays – Open Mic Night with ‘This Wicked tongue’

May 10th & 24th

Wednesdays – Sports Night

A selection of the evenings Football & Rugby

Thursday – Live Music Night

Reggae and Roots; May 5th & 19th

Friday & Saturday’s – PARTY NIGHTS

PARTY NIGHTS
Subkon Allstars Hip Hop & Horror - May 13th
Eclectro with Guest DJ’s - May 27th

Sunday – Super Sport Sundays & Quiz Night

Sky Sports & ESPN HD, Multi-screen Venue.
Quiz Night every other week ( May 8th & 22nd. )
* FREE FOOD * CASH / ALCOHOL & BOOBIE PRIZES *
* £1.99 Fosters & Angel Ale * Plus other drink offers

The Angel, 14 Angel Place, Worcester, WR1 3QN

01905 723229

FIND US ON FACEBOOK AT – ‘The Angel @ Worcester’

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IMAGERY: Sam Taylor

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[Box Poem 3]
Come Into The Garden
Come into the garden, Maud,
It's a lovely day outside
Come into the garden, Maud,
Whilst the sun is in the sky
Step across the threshold,
And lift your head up high!
Come into the garden, Maud,
It's a lovely day to die...
The day we wed I promised you
"For better or for worse",
Never knowing that my heartfelt
words
Would soon become a curse.
Our love-life withered overnight,
And in about the same
You became a witch, a harpy,
Bellowing my name.
Remarkably, we had three children,
How I cannot think -
I recall no nights of passion,
Perhaps you spiked my drink,
For I had hit the bottle hard
To wash away the grey
Of waking up beside you
Each and every day.
POETRY: John Taylor
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Now the young have flown the nest
It's you and me at last.
I did my duty for the kids
Now you and I must part.
I want no messy divorce
Where you take the lion's cut,
I've come up with a neater plan -
And I will keep the lot
I've been digging in the garden, Maud,
A hole, long, wide and deep,
I'm gonna push you in it, Maud
For an everlasting sleep.
And as the gentle scent of flowers
Titillates our noses
No-one will ever realise
You are pushing up the roses.
But first I've got to end your life
And therein lies the trouble,
The best I've thought of so far
Is hitting you with the shovel.
But come into the garden, Maud,
It’s a lovely day today
Let me take you by the hand -
I’m sure I’ll find a way.
 ARTICLE: Alexandra Rowan
ILLUSTRATION: Chris Jones

Art In Minds (AIMs) was formed seven years ago by a

health trust funded artist, a senior occupational therapist
and one ex-mental health service user.

AIMs provides an opportunity for artists with personal

experience, an understanding of or an interest in mental
health issues to exhibit their work in the public arena. It
offers a supportive and professional environment where
members can partake in the organisation as much or as
little as is possible for them. AIMs offers the chance for
its members to gain expertise and knowledge within a
supported atmosphere.

In 2009 the AIMs Community Group was formed in partnership with the health trust
funded staff and a Worcestershire based artist. Initially the group was based at the City
Art Gallery & Museum in Worcester. However, as the group expanded, larger premises
were required and weekly sessions are now held at the Worcester Arts Workshop. The
group consists of a community of self motivated artists who work both individually and
collaboratively to continue their creative journey and enhance their artistic development.
Working within the community helps to ensure that members continue their working
practice and makes certain their talent is promoted through exhibitions held with both the
group itself and the wider AIMs movement.

The AIMs Community Group has been supported by the City Art Gallery & Museum,
two of the artists in residence based at the Worcester Arts Workshop, The co-operative
membership Community Fund, Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and
Capacity Builders.

If you are interested in finding out more about Art In Minds please feel free to view our
website at
www.artinminds.org.uk
Our face book page or follow us on twitter at twitter@artinminds.

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The Hidden Green City
Worcester Arts Workshop are
renowned for there excellent
collection of educational and fun
filled children’s classes.
Pottery classes run every Saturday morning
catering for children of all ages. But this
Saturday saw something quite special.
It was a beautiful spring day; Café Bliss was bussing with people, but the forecourt had
been taken over by children. They were developing a secret city made entirely by their
hands. Each child moulded there own unique magical buildings; houses, towers and
there were even igloos dotted amongst the pot plants. These could be found hidden
within the forecourt; placed amongst roots of two tree stumps brought in especially for
the occasion.
Underneath the buildings
the children placed
seeds, which would grow
through there little clay
masterpieces. The clay
would then melt and
form in to other shapes
as each clay building had
not been kilned enabling
each structure to take a
different form.

Go and visit the secret miniature city, you may have to search amongst the jungle of
plants to find some of the more hidden treasures, and why not savour some refreshing
drinks and lovely Mexican food while your at it .

For more information on the Worcester Arts Workshops classes drop in to the
building or go to [info@worcesterartsworkshop.org.uk]
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Exhibitions and Event in May

Close to Nature Animals by Robert

27th May – 10th July Davies
Nature is all around us, March 12th – 28th May
but do when do we really Robert Davies’ drawings
stop to look in detail or will dazzle you with their
Contemporary think about its complexity, lifelike quality. The cows,
horses, chickens and pigs
Collection Re- our own impact on the
are all rescue creatures from
considered landscape and its impact an animal sanctuary near
9th April - 4th June on us? A show case of Worcester, with their own
Bringing together works contemporary sculptures names and personas, this
by important British and The new Brewery Arts, makes you think about our
international artists, this Brewery Court, relationship with animals
exhibition explores the Cirencester, and how we treat them.
tension between rural and Gloucestershire GL7 Wolverhampton
urban landscapes. 1JH Art Gallery,
Worcester Art Gallery 01285 657181 Lichfield Street,
and Museum, Wolverhampton, WV1
Worcester Festival Feast 1DU. (01902) 552055
30th April – 15th May
Rugby Collection 2011 Annual International Film POP
22nd March – 28th Textile Festival in Stroud, Until 7th of May
August this exhibition will show Looking at how Pop artists
Collection of works by a selection of artists took film, its characters,
Eduardo Paolozzi, Stanley who are in this years themes and iconography, as
Spencer, Walter Sickert, festival. Inspiring and reference material for their
Barbara Hepworth, Bridget thought provoking textiles art. Featuring a selection
Riley and l.S. Lowry. Only a contemporary crafts and of works on sci-fi, horror,
selection is on display please multimedia. murder mystery and western
phone for details The new Brewery Arts, themes.
Rugby Art Gallery Brewery Court, Wolverhampton
and Museum, Little Cirencester, Art Gallery,
Elborow Street, Rugby Gloucestershire. GL7 Lichfield Street,
CV21 3BZ (01788) 1JH Wolverhampton, WV1
533204 (01285) 657181 1DU. (01902) 552055
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Worcester Art Workshop
21 Sansome Street
Worcester. WR1 1UH
(01905) 21095
info@worcesterartsworkshop.org.uk

Diana Scott
April 25th- 22nd May
A retrospective of paintings

Clik Clik collective presents:

Nathaniel Kara
April 25th- 20th May
Pop art inspired urban
landscapes

Events @ Cafe
Bliss
Lazy Sunday
[Second Sunday of every month]
~May 8th
[Free Entry]
Learn: Eat: Perform
[Third Sunday every month]
~May 15th
[Tickets £7 advance, £6 on
door workshop]
{free to attend open mic}
ILLUSTRATIONS: Chris Jones
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In Issue 04...

~Chris concludes
Metamorphosis

~Interview with
Rebecca Griffiths and
Charlotte Stocksdale.

~Follow ups from our

guest artists

~Also details on our

new Website!

~More from Jack and

Lucy on 42

~Keep up to date on
Facebook concerning
updates and the Poetry
Competition!

ILLUSTRATION: Chris Jones

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