Summer 2006 Workshop Programme

The Jaywick Martello Tower is running a series of workshops designed to inspire, encourage and facinate. The workshops will cover a range of subjects, from the history of the towers themselves through to art workshops for children and families.

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Beside the Sea – Craft Workshop
Thursday 27th July 2006, 1.30 - 3.30pm
Family workshop (all children must be accompanied by an adult).

Family Tree Workshop
Thursday 27th July 2006, 10.30am - 11.30am
Adults only.

Sand Sculpture Workshops
Sunday 23th July 2006, 10.30am - Noon
Sunday 20th August 2006, 10.30am - Noon
Family workshop (all children must be accompanied by an adult).
From 5 years+.

History of Martello Towers
Tuesday 11th July 2006, 11am - 12.30pm
Tuesday 8th August 2006, 11am - 12.30pm
Adults only.

Children's Art Workshops
Friday 28th July 2006, 10.30am - Noon
Friday 25th August 2006, 10.30am - Noon
Children aged 7+.

Please book in advance by contacting
Email: martello@bishopspark.essex.sch.uk
Tel: 01255 822783

John Kippin
Coast

The exhibition will bring together an appreciation of the Essex coastal landscape as a natural boundary and to place it within the historical context of the Napoleonic Martello defence structure. John Kippin is one of nine artists who have produced artworks for ‘COAST’, Essex County County’s ambitious art project celebrating the Essex coast.

John states ‘Using images of historic military coastal defences as a starting point, my intentions are that the combination of the newly- restored tower, together with the installation of images and sound specifically made to be installed in the tower, will synthesise a sense of history and place which can explore current anxieties with regard to the ‘defence of the realm’, and to consider the appropriate understanding of the nation’s boundaries and borders both in terms of the physical appreciation of the landscape and as an ideological and mythical construction.’

Masaki Fujihata
Mersea Circles

Mersea Circles is a 3D interactive installation that emerged from an innovative public-led documentation process in August 2003 on Mersea Island. Some 150 people participated in this special reflection of the Essex Coast walking around the island with DV cameras and GPS. As they walked they captured, with position data, the route of their walk and they recorded on video their activities, talks, interviews, and images of the landscapes around them.

Internationally renowned, artist Masaki Fujihata, commissioned by Future Physical, created this 3D installation from the data gathered on video and GPS, The installation will be installed on the first floor of the Martello Tower. Mersea Circles is also housed permanently at the Ars Electronica Museum in Linz, Austria.

Masaki Fujihata is one of nine artists who have produced artworks for ‘COAST’, Essex County County’s ambitious art project celebrating the Essex coast. To find out more about the COAST project go to www.coastart.org

Mersea Circles was produced by Future Physical for the Coast project
(Essex County Council in partnership with Commissions East, firstsite and
Future Physical / shinkansen).

Soft Ices
Mark Storor and Jules Maxwell

The magical opening of the Tower on 17th September 2005 was the culmination of a year-long art project by the artist Mark Storor and composer Jules Maxwell, ‘Soft Ices’- the title referencing Jaywick’s long relationship with ice-cream and caravans. Mark and Jules have been travelling around Jaywick in a retired 1950’s Bedford ice cream van, which was given a new lease of life as a recording studio. Local residents and students from Bishop’s Park College swapped songs and stories for an ice-cream literally ‘singing for their supper’.

In return for their songs, they were rewarded with free ice creams. Mark and Jules made some amazing recordings. The sound of people’s unaccompanied singing is precious. The songs become like lullabies or ballads, deeply personal and significant. Samples of their songs were transformed into a piece of music which was used at the Tower’s opening and the recordings made into a book and CD.