THE ART OF SOCIAL DREAMING : RESOURCES

Here you will find resources which relate to, and result from, The Art of Social Dreaming 2020-21 . This includes work created by participants from, and responding to, the material emerging from sessions.

ARTWORK CREATED AFTER FIRST SESSION 29/2/20

Anthony Haddon and Sarah Westaway

Poem by Becky Cherriman The Itch Comes and then it is Real

Poem by Tessa Gordziejko What We Know

ARTWORK CREATED OR FOUND AFTER FIRST VIRTUAL SOCIAL DREAMING EVENT 24/4/20

Hands Up for Trees

Banner created by Ruth Balogh and Students in 2019 ‘This is in direct response to the image of hand-prints on a cave wall. It’s a banner I created collaboratively with climate strike students at their Craftivism workshop on Sept 21st Climate Action Day. I painted the tree, they volunteered to use their hands for printing the leaves

Tree Dreaming

‘I’ve noticed little caves in the bottom of trees in Highgate Wood and Queens Wood and wanted to photograph a few for my creative project. However on revisiting the wood this morning, I was struck by the number of man-made tree wigwams there exist, and as I find caves more anxiety-provoking than most fellow dreamers in the session, I decided that these better express my feelings. Olivia Rosen

Poem by Jenny Wilson The space Between

Painting by Michael Prior

Dreaming Grounded

Collage by Ruth Balogh

Poem by Tessa Gordziejko THE CAVE

Cueva de Los Manos – Argentina

Credit : Alamy

I found this image whilst reading about cave paintings, a reference I use in my poem

Tessa Gordziejko

ARTWORK CREATED AFTER SECOND VIRTUAL SOCIAL DREAMING EVENT 8/5/20

Collage by Esther Waite

Woods Haiku and image by Ruth Balogh

Dandelion Haiku and pastel drawing by Ruth Balogh

ARTWORK CREATED AFTER THIRD VIRTUAL SOCIAL DREAMING MATRIX 22/5/20

Refracted In You photograph by Esther Waite

Michael Prior Painting
‘I did this a while ago but it was brought to mind as a vision of social distancing as a dance’

ARTWORK CREATED AFTER FOURTH VIRTUAL SOCIAL DREAMING MATRIX 22/5/20

Photograph by Olivia Rosen

‘I felt that in order to create something for the last session I needed to be allowed back into public spaces. Then I remembered a Boundaries and Barriers image I had been struck by. It’s in a public building which was sold to a development company. For three or so years while in limbo the building ran wild with creative projects such as this art gallery which flourished along with the ivy that came in through the windows. The ivy and the energy of the space had a quite transient and dreamlike quality.It felt like barriers were being broken’