Press + Print

250 postal cyanotype kits distributed across two communities just outside Bristol during Covid lockdown. Including full equipment, instructions, website and videos to guide participants through the project to contribute to PRESS + PRINT:

1 - PRESSED PLANTS learning to identify, safely collect and press plants on daily walks

2 - CYANOTYPES arranging their pressed specimens and creating 'sunshine' cyanotype prints  in their homes

3 - SCANNING cyanotypes and sending them to the artist ready to be compilled and turned into the permanent artworks for the site (vitreous enamel railings and furniture featuring the cyanotype prints)

4 - EXHIBITION displaying cyanotype artworks in their home windows (with accompanying map to enable socially distanced walks to view all the artworks)

5 - MUSEUM HERBARIUM sending their pressed plants to Bristol Museum ready to be accessioned into their permanent collection as a Community Herbarium documenting the social and natural history of the area.

Client: South Gloucester Council

Kit Design: Zoe Murphy

Web Design: Lorna Crystal

Mentees: Shula Soleman, Velvet Butler Carroll, Alex Taljaard 

Partners and consultants: British Horse Society, Friends of Emerson Green Park, Ed Drewitt, National Composites Centre, Creative Youth Network, Live West Housing Association, Sovereign Housing Association, Bromford Housing Association, Mangotsfield C of E Primary School, Lyde Green Primary, Emersons Green Primary, Mangotsfield School, Downend School, Emersons Green Community Choir, Emersons Green Library, Emerson Green Village Hall, Lyde Green Community Centre, Avon Wildlife Trust, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, BRERC, RSPB, UWE Sustainability and Biodiversity, UWE Community Engagement, Bristol Museums, Green Square Estate, Emersons Green Scouts, Lyde Green Beavers and Cubs, Dibden Lane Allotments, Bristol Naturalist Society, Grade & Grain, SCAL3D, Ollie Nemeth (Skate Consultant), WECA, St Barnabas C of E School.