So many things have happened since the last update including viewing four buildings, three for temporary homes and one for a long-term home, plus working on our big project for the end of the month but firstly we’ll update you on our long-term home, the studios. The future studios building is the Old British School [...]
things that jelly makes
So we have been back a week and are into our normal term time programme -normal is a random way of describing the activity that happens here, there is never anything that quantifies as a normal week. When people ask what we do, it is hard to say in words exactly as it changes daily, [...]
Happy Easter Holiday from jelly
We will be shut today (Friday 10th April) and all over the Easter break – but we will be back on Tuesday 14th for the start of the new workshop week, full details are here. We all wish you a very happy Easter
Last day in the workshop
Today was the last day in the workshop before the Easter break – apologies in advance if you try to phone us anytime after today and before Monday. We are fortunate to have a town centre space, given to us by Reading Borough Council in partnership but it also means we have the hours of [...]
Miniature Art Gardens
Yesterday Sarah and I ran the Miniature Art Gardens workshop together with 10 participants and two lovely mums who were there too. Above are pictures of the pieces halfway through the two hours session and they just became more and more ambitious. One of the gardens left the workshop with me as I was taking [...]
Easter Week
We will be uploading more pictures this week so you can see what we have been up to ~ from the outside you may think it’s quiet but here we are working full steam ahead, looking for new sites to house Gallery 10, running private workshop sessions and this week the Easter programme springs into [...]
The Art Fund Prize 2009
One of our close friends and neighbours, The Museum of Reading has been nominated for The Art Fund Prize 2009 for it’s Outside the Box project. The Museum of Reading operates Britain’s largest and oldest loan service. Outside the Box has been a four-year project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, which has revitalised and [...]
extra nice things from the morning
This morning after a meeting with one of the jelly Board I went back to work and saw all the little people hard at work – they really are little people, from 18 months upwards and they were making papier mache bunnies. When jelly started, the little people weren’t one of our target audience but [...]
Saying goodbye to some good things
Tomorrow is the last day of LOVE IS AWESOME at Gallery 10, 10 Gun Street . We (jelly) along with Zoe Funge Smith (Rogues Gallery) have been guardians of this beautiful space since June 2008 in which time we have had 12 shows with over 100 artists. All the exhibitions were put together by the [...]
Love Art
jelly has been one of the guardians of a temporary exhibition space in Reading Town Centre which will close its doors for the last time on 1st March 2009. The space known as Gallery 10, next door to The Purple Turtle has has shown work by over a 100 local artists since July 2008 when [...]
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