STYLE | Art
Cultivate, create, thrive #WeAreRydeArts
Ryde A rts enriches the lives of people – whether artist, participant, or v iewer – through arts and cu lture projects. In this issue, we ex plore the a lchemic process between artist and project, which of ten transforms the creative process from pleasurable pastime to a process of revelation, prov iding persona l g row th and uncovering new forms of ex pression.
Above: Julian captures the lines and movement of dancer Sophie Wintersgill’s performance in front of “Integration” by Jo Hummel-Newell
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GROW Photographer and artist Julian Winslow recalls how his involvement in the Ryde Arts GROW project prompted a contemplation of energy and connectivity. Made possible by Arts Council funding, GROW saw lead artist Jo Hummel-Newell take up an eighteenmonth residency at Quarry Road allotments, producing a body of work that referenced issues such as social integration and circular economies. “For me, growth as an artist is always on the tails of growing as a human and this comes from many things – often it’s an interaction with a person, community or environment. I spent some time in the Ryde allotments, documenting life there, human, plant and animal. It sits in the bottom of a valley surrounded by houses, flats and a train station. It struck me how the allotments were like an iron age village; a small community of farmers, working the land and how this was nested within the broader community of the surrounding town. It was as if you could see how our past was nested in the present, where we had come from, a thread that stretched through
