THEARTS
RECIPES FOR CHANGE
A CRAFTIVIST LARDER & RECIPE ARCHIVE FULL OF CREATIVE IDEAS TO CHANGE THE WORLD!
CAFE PRESENTS
EXHIBITION BY:
ROSE WALKER
VAL OWENS
JEN LINFORD
LEIGH DOBIE
TRACEY ROCHESTER
LAURA ROBINSON
MASON ROBINSON
ANN PURVIS
GEMMA SCOTT
AVA-MAE MACONOCHIE
DONNA LAMB
WITH SUPPORT FROM SARAH LI, ELLEN RANSON & LADY KITT
RECIPES FOR CHANGE
During March we have been working with artists Sarah Li and Lady Kitt to create recipes, not for food, but for things we would like:
more of in the world to be different in our own lives and our wider communities
These have included recipes for kindness, sleep, mental health and friendship. Every week we have been looking at artworks for the Durham University Art collection about food and activism: taking inspiration from artists who’ve made art to change the world!
We have collected our recipes together in this exhibition. Our "Craftivist Recipe Archive" is an unfolding larder, it's a library for our work, but it’s not just for our work…
We would like to invite you to make your own recipes to add to our “Craftivist Recipe Archive” too.
In the back of this booklet are recipe templates which you can cut or tear out. In the larder, art materials and tools are available- please help yourself!
Feel free to take your recipe home or leave it in the larder to be enjoyed by others as part of the exhibition.
In June and July all the recipes and the larder will be exhibited in Durham as part of the Summer in the City Festival. After that they will be off for a tour of community venues across County Durham.
You can check out the EDC website here: Arts Cafe – East Durham Creates
Keep up to date with where the larder is going to next!
RECIPES:
Making Sense of the Self
Artist: Rose
Date: 2023
About the work:
A recipe for self discovery
An ounce of charisma
A handful of friendship
A sprinkling of encouragement
An array of ♪♫
A wave of exploration
A dusting of courage
A few seconds of time
An abundance of love
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Community Spirit
Artist: Donna
Date: 2023
About the work:
A sense of belonging can provide us with what we need for our wellbeing and help to foster resilience.
The people around us can help us to navigate life’s sometimes difficult journey. Sometimes the little things can mean so much.
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
HOPE
A CUPPA AND A LISTENING EAR
COLLABORATION A FRIENDLY FACE
SHARING IDEAS SHARING SKILLS
LENDING A HAND RECIPES:
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Recipe for Living in the Now
Artist: Leigh Frida
Date: 2023
Description of work:
‘Being Present in the moment is very important to me. I wanted to portray the practices I personally use in order to achieve this, and hopefully inspire others to accept themselves, be present and less critical of their lives.’
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Recipe for Sleep
Artist: Gemma
Date: 2023
About the work:
‘If like me you have trouble sleeping, I thought of a recipe that is really simple.
Have a relaxing bath, have some comfy PJ’s and a warm comfy bed or somewhere to sleep.
After all this if you are lucky enough to get some sleep I wish you a goodnight sleep tight and sweet dreams.
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Recipe for ‘Power’
Artist: Jen Linford
Date: 2023
About the work:
The Power of Love or The Love of Power.
Four words, Two interpretations.
The green ‘post it’ note - The Power of Love.
The yellow ‘post it’ note - The Love of Power.
Those that ‘love power’ need the recipe to reverse the words and feel the ‘power of love’ to have empathy with those less fortunate.
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Recipes for Forever Love
Artist: Val
Date: 2023
About the work: Tea towel of comfort + wellbeing
Self awareness of own wellbeing needs
Found by sharing + caring of skills and stories. Of others being fascinated by friends and families knowledge. Of life having calm time and you! Time, express feeling among one another chilling and having self love. Val, Recipes for Forever Love
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Recipes for Animals to have homes
Artist: Ava- Mae
Date: 2023
About the work: the recipe is about animals that are homeless recipe to change this is give them love
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Recipes for Change is part funded by Durham University and every week we have been looking at artworks from the Durham University Art collection about food and activism: taking inspiration from artists who’ve made art to change the world.
Durham University is home to one of the largest art collections in the North East, including modern art, manuscripts and archives. The collection of modern art includes work by some of the most significant artists of the 20th and 21st centuries
The University are currently working on making art collection publicly accessible through their online database Discover . To search the database please use the QR code:
Armoured for Today’s Events
By: Linda SteinLinda Stein is an activist visual artist, living in New York City. Her work often deals with themes of protection, inspired by the artists own struggles with acceptance and sexuality. For more than four decades, her work has addressed issues of persecution and protection, focusing on the oppression of the “other” through the lens of antibullying and social justice. Often using collage and always incorporating educational components in her exhibitions through direct outreach with students, she consistently thinks about how the work can be activated. Exploring how heroism and strength can be projected through clothing and popular culture, she invites viewers to consider the relationship between protection and expression. Quote by Linda about her work: “…I’m making these figures to be defenders. Defenders of the vulnerable and protectors, and so my work took on a social justice stance and a feminist stand. My themes have always to do with the other –respecting and accepting the other. So, my art about racism, sexism, trans and homophobia, classism, ableism – it’s all about encouraging people to step up and be up standers rather than bystanders. It encourages people to notice when someone is being abused and harassed. Isn’t that what we’re currently in our time now talking about? And this is what my art is about.”
Armoured for Today’s Events
By: Linda Stein
May they Never Be Deemed “Low Skilled” Again
By: Craig OldhamCraig Oldham was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. A British designer who has produced work in design, film, television, art, retail, sports, entertainment, and education. Oldham has a particular interest in hand- drawn and hand-written text as a way of making imagery more personal, drawing is one of the earliest forms of representation, and Oldham words as a way to explore his ideas.
Oldham designed the typeface “STILLINGFLEET”, inspired by the typography of the UK miners’ strike 1984-85 called LIASON. Which can be seen in the work NEVER FORGET NEVER FORGIVE (2015).
This piece (May They Never Be Deemed) was specifically created in the context of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, to raise funding to feed frontline NHS workers, women seeking refuge. Homeless people and those living in food poverty.
May they Never Be Deemed “Low Skilled” Again
By: Craig Oldham
Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?
By: Guerrilla GirlsGuerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts community. They often use humour in their work to make their serious messages engaging. They are known for their "guerrilla" tactics, hence their name, such as hanging up posters or staging surprise exhibitions. To remain anonymous, members don gorilla masks and use pseudonyms that refer to deceased female artists such as Frida Kahlo, Käthe Kollwitz, and Alice Neel According to GG1, identities are concealed because issues matter more than individual identities, "Mainly, we wanted the focus to be on the issues, not on our personalities or our own work." An important part of Guerrilla Girls' outreach since 1985 has been presentations and workshops at colleges, universities, art organizations, and sometimes at museums. The presentations, known as "gigs", attract hundreds and sometimes thousands of attendees. In the gig, they play music, videos, show slides and talk about the history of their work, how it has evolved. In the end, the GGs interact with audience members. New work is always included, and gig material changes all the time. They have done hundreds of these events and have travelled to nearly every state as well as Europe, South America, and Australia.
“We try to twist an issue around and present it in a way that hasn’t been seen before, using facts and humour, in the hope of changing people’s mind,” said a masked member of the group. “We take on issues we are passionate about, but we don’t always succeed. If we don’t come up with something we think is worth putting out there, we don’t.”
Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?
By: Guerrilla Girls
How to add your recipe to the Craftivist Recipe Archive:
In the larder we have provided materials, so you make your own recipes too.
Help yourself to a recipe template or a blank sheet of paper
Feel free to look at the books in the larder as inspiration
Use the pens from the larder to write / draw your recipe
Think about how you would feel if you took your recipe home. Think about how you would feel if you added your recipe to the Craftivist Recipe Archive
When you have decided what you would like to do, either use pegs to pin your recipe to one of the washing lines, or put it in a hard backed envelope to take home with you
Please make sure the materials are back in the appropriately labelled boxes / files before you leave
