{"id":7125,"date":"2016-12-19T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrion.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:58:59","slug":"you-are-here-open-house-artist-residency-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/you-are-here-open-house-artist-residency-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Here – Open House Artist Residency 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isabella Martin, Open House Artist in Residence 2016, has been working in collaboration with residents and community groups in North Cambridge to create a new map of the area.<\/h2>\n

Martin and a team of Artist Facilitators have been gathering local stories, memories and ideas for the future of the area. With all this information Isabella has drawn a new map which locates all these stories of one place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI noticed that the only public maps displayed in North Cambridge were of the city centre. I want to create a map of the local area which celebrates the things which are important, special and meaningful to the people who live here.\u201d – Isabella Martin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the end of November the map was revealed at a temporary print studio and exhibition in Arbury called Make Your Map where visitors joined her to make their own print of the map using a silk screen. The exhibition featured works from Kettle\u2019s Yard\u2019s collection including pieces by Ben Nicholson and Alfred Wallis, reproductions of historic maps which inspired Martin from Cambridgeshire Collection and the Scott Polar Research Institute and artworks created by participants at workshops and projects throughout the residency.<\/p>\n

\u201c[We] liked doing something interactive in the community that\u2019s for the family. We brought our neighbour \u2013 its local so we can do that! It\u2019s great to expose the kids to different kinds of art. We love the maps, it\u2019s neat seeing the history of the area.\u201d – Visitor to Make Your Map<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Artworks made by projects with community groups were also exhibited across North Cambridge concurrently with the Make Your Map event.<\/p>\n

These included:<\/p>\n

Making Memories<\/em> made by Year 5 pupils of the Grove Primary School with artist Anna Brownsted displayed at Arbury Court Library. The pupils created 3D visual archives of memories shared by residents of Alex Wood House care home when the pupils interviewed them about special moments in their lives.<\/p>\n

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You Are Here Postcards<\/em> displayed at Brown\u2019s Field Youth & Community Centre are a set of images captured by members of Chesterton Camera Club of the local area.<\/p>\n

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Remember<\/em> is a film by Toby Peters capturing memories and stories of places important to residents of Cambridge Manor Care Home following music and movement workshops with Filipa Pereria-Stubbs.<\/p>\n