This website is being reconstructed, therefor this section will host hightlights from 2006-now
instead of being found in the PORTFOLIO section, which hosts an archive of selected work up through 2005.
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„It’s your image, take care of it”
A 15-week workshop (October 2009 – January 2010), lead by Pamela Wells for the University of Warsaw’s Institute for Polish Culture.
Students learned to use digital imaging programme GIMP as a tool for engaging with people in their own cultural animation projects, focused around the area of Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science. The blog contains GIMP tips and students used it to record their progress.
This workshop will run again from October 2010 – January 2011, with a different geographical focus. _____________
18/12/09
this site has been actively unactive for a couple of years
if it were a shop it would have closed
if it were a relationship or a dog it would have died from lack of attention
can a career be over if simply ignored?
i thought yes
i hoped yes
it felt yes
i thought i’d retired
a sort of forced retirement
because i thought it was an 'it or me' situation
and that i was being finally being smart enough to know when to quit
i know, i tried it once before and it turned into 'a project‘
but this time i thought it was really Over
but it comes back.
if not the same then in a different form
mutated seeds try to sprout.
40 has been made into a benchmark year
and i was happy or at least relieved for it all to be over
an early grave for my cv and a fundamental shift in lifestyle
but now i’m +1
and surely, everything is different
but with the echo of a man’s voice in me saying „you should write more“
and a website in sore need of either archiving or evolving
as i perhaps am finally ready to make the switch from dreamweaver to wordpress
then i’ll 'post‘ this on my un-blog
as a note to myself i guess
since thankfully no one ever reads blogs ;)
or maybe it’s useful/helpful – to the process? to someone else?
to share in this quiet sort of talking-to-yourself kind of way
as an occasionally lonely person in a generally lonely world
as someone rather aware that things are not all right
and wondering what to do, how to position myself, how to respond
if there is hope for healing, for change, for tolerance and understanding
maybe there will be no more notes
or maybe this is a replacement for the „site under construction" sign
i have no intention to make this a new 'project‘
i really think i’m done with those
but maybe it will become or be a marker for something else
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Pamela undertook an Art@Work residency in 2006 with the Roscommon Fire Service in Ireland,
which led to a Percent for Art public commission. The sculpture was installed November 2008.
"Portrait of the Service"
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2008 - Video created for Compton Verney with Warwickshire Association for the Blind, as part of the Engage Project. Copies are available.
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Urban Lighthouse also took place in 2006, in Coventry
as part of Architecture Week in England.
_____________ DISHINIT - 404 bowls with 101 people in Stoke-on-Trent.
After the exhibition in 2007, meals were held by participants to distribute the bowls and documentation is being put onto the DISHINIT website. There is also a DISHINIT Group on Facebook
ANIMATOR is another Laundry project that Pamela was involved with, which culminated in April 2008. This was a multi-agency project with the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University and Katedra Kultury in Poland, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas in Lithuania, and Spolek Richelielieu in Prague in the Czech Republic. _____________
The Victoria & Albert Museum hosted a conference in 2007 'Plastics: Looking at the Future & Learning From the Past’ where Pamela was invited to present. The postprint publication is available from Archetype Publications at the beginning of 2009.
Pamela spent about 1year collecting polythene in Prague.
Making sketches of famous throughout the centuries, looking to recreate fragments from the collected polythene.
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