
PARK BENCH Video
From each park bench in Kearsney Abbey and Russell Gardens in Dover there is a different view – equally from each park bench each person’s view will be different as they daydream, remember or become lost in the landscape.
The idea of recording with drawings from direct observation falls into the tradition of Casino dal Pozzo’s paper museum and the other collections of visual records of the natural world that began in Europe in the sixteenth Century.
PARK BENCH brings Kearsney Abbey and Russel Gardens alive through the quality and diversity of creative practitioners from the talented amateur to artists with international careers living and working in Dover and the local area. During the summer of 2018 fifty-four visual artists and poets chose a park bench in Kearsney Abbey or Russell Gardens to draw and write from. The Park Bench video has woven these works together with the addition of five musicians and three of the poets voices on the soundtrack.
Director – Joanna Jones
Editor – Jamie Jenkinson
Sound – Richard Bundy.
Production – Dover Arts Development (DAD) 2019
The Production was commissioned for Art in the Park : Kearsney Interpreted a Dover District Council project funded by Arts Council England and delived together with Dover Arts Development.
Projects
Contributors
- Nicolas Deshayes
- Josephine Callaghan
- Sophie Aunger
- Kerry Jones
- Philip Hutton
- Anna-Marya Tompa
- Paul Dagys
- Elliot Masters
- Rob Chavasse
- Soundlines
- Fiona Beddow
- Nienke Eernisse
- Hannah Jones
- Gwen Hedley
- Amanda Davis
- Philippa Wall
- Thurle Wright
- Joseph Black
- Louise Webb
- Phil Saunders
- Drew Burrett
- Steph Wallace
- Nicola Dunsbee
- Simon Partridge
- jamie jenkinson
- Chevonne Lane
- Benjamin Hunt
- Victoria Pasquino
- Mike Tedder
- Petra Matthews-Crow
- Bev Williams
- Fleur Whitfield
- Helen Lindon
- Gabor Stark
- Marcia Teusink
- Katharine Beaugié
- Chris Burke
- Richard Bundy
- Alma Tischlerwood
- Clare Smith
- Joanna Jones
- Paul Cheneour
Update
- Richard Bundy
- Kate Beaugié
- Clare Smith
- Thurle Wright
- Paul Dagys
- Hannah Jones
- Gabor Stark
- Chris Burke
- Joanna Jones
- Alma Tischlerwood’s ALICE launch: 1 June, in Kearsney Abbey
- OSE associates visit Kearsney Abbey and Fort Burgoyne
- Art in the Park – Kearsney Interpreted Artists Films
- Park Bench Video Preview
- Recording the Soundlines poets reading their Park Bench poems
- Some rambling thoughts on taking part in the park bench project
- The soundtrack for the PARK BENCH moving image piece is underway
- Park Bench: final day at Kearsney
- Park bench poets and artists in the Kearsney parks on August 8th
- July 21st 2018 Park Bench Artists and writers in Keasney Abbey and Russell Gardens
- The Park Bench Project gets under way
- The Park Bench Project