Please find below the agenda for the next Parish Council meeting to be held via zoom at 7pm on Monday 21st September 2020.
As always, residents are more than welcome to attend.
Please see the link below to join the zoom meeting.
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Meeting ID: 947 2898 3646
Passcode: 325524
The minutes of the last meeting can be found on our website on this page: https://www.slingsbyvillage.co.uk/parish-council-and-community/
Meg Huby debuts artist residency exhibition at the Yorkshire Arboretum
Locally-based artist Meg Huby will introduce an all-new exhibition of work based on her year as Artist-in-Residence at the Yorkshire Arboretum, from 18th September to 19th October. Meg began her residency in the autumn of 2019, and brought together “A long-term fascination with the ecology of trees and a relatively new interest in making art.” Meg, who began her career as a biologist before becoming a lecturer in social policy at the University of York, discovered a passion for drawing and painting six years ago.
The exhibition, ‘The Yearly Trick of Looking New’, will including pieces of Meg’s work produced during her residency. It celebrates transience and change in nature while recognising the interdependency between all forms of life and the crucial role of the arboretum in tree protection. The title is drawn from Philip Larkin’s poem, ‘The Trees’.
In her own words, Meg’s artistic style tries to “find a way between [photorealism and pure abstraction]. The tension between them is like the tension between the solid physicality and apparent permanence of life in the arboretum and its transient, constantly changing nature. Absorbing the arboretum from all angles – observing, sketching, photographing and reading – informs and influences my paintings and prints.” Her approach involves a great deal of experimentation with materials and techniques. “The oil paintings are built upon layers of underpainting and glazing and use different types of support. A favourite tool is an electric hand-sander!”
The exhibition will feature original artwork – with oil and watercolour paintings, collagraphs and eco-prints – as well as a small selection of printed greetings cards. It is free to view in the arboretum visitor centre. Protective face coverings should be worn while viewing the exhibition.
Find out more by visiting www.yorkshirearboretum.org, or find Meg on Instagram @MegsterArt
Our Autumn newsletter is attached, sadly we are unable to meet for our autumn lectures, but exciting news – also attached – our first ever ZOOM lecture. I hope you will take the opportunity to zoom in to the October lecture
Maurag Carmichael
Friends Secretary
Download the newsletter here
Download the premiere Zoom lecture details here
With an introduction by Director John Grimshaw, and information on Activities and Exhibitions, an update on the Arboretum appeal and a call for volunteers, see the Yorkshire Arboretum August Newsletter here.
We have given the thought of Car Boot Sales a lot of consideration but have decided that there will be no car boot sales this year but we will recommence them as soon as we possibly can next year.
Paul Hogarth.
