The One Sky Project represents the first ever creative industries
trade mission to India.
We have recently secured the backing of UKTI and are currently
raising sponshorship and support from a variety of sources. If you
would like to sponsor our mission, contact us to discuss what you
can do support the project. mail@oneskyproject.com
But first here is a quick synopsis. The project is broken up into
three stages. The first an intense phase of networking, the
second more a process of exploration, self observation, group
work, interaction, and creativity.
The third presenting the results of the project back in the U.K.
The first phase will consist of a trade mission to Delh backed by
UKTIi, and also the opening of a group exhibition, to coincide
with the India Art Summit.
The second phase will consist of the group traveling up into the
Himalayas to a very sacrad place where the Yamuna and Ganges
rivers divide. The journey there is apparently hair raising, and
the conditions primitive. This is an encounter experience. We
are planning that this whole trip will be recorded, and are
proposing that a short film be made of the trip, which could later
be used for media coverage of the mission.
After coming back from the mountains, we propose an intense
creative period, with the possibility of workshops to be held.
The work made will be in relation to the impact that India has on
us individually and as a group, and this work will form a body of
work which will be exhibited in a follow up exhibition, again in
Delhi.
The final part of the mission is to trasport the work back to the
U.K and exhibit the work in a gallery here.
We are hoping that this whole mission will be of general interest
as a recorded process of personal and collective transformation,
inspiration, and growth, and that this may inspire.
Also the work produced in exposure to India, may disclose how
fresh experience of a radically different culture can stimulate
growth and development in the indivitual. The fact that we are
all expresssive artists merely helps to make this disclosure more
apparent.
A group of very different and diverse British artists based around
Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire are taking their skills and
their work to display in India. The aim is to begin a globalisation
of creative industries, in a two-way exchange that will open up
new markets for British artists in India and for Indian artists in the
UK.
The artists also hope the contrasts in culture, landscape and
artistic traditions will inspire their own work.
It is a trip that is without parallel in its ambitions. The artists,
many of them heavily influenced by the scenery in which they
live, will be packing their work into a container and travelling
five thousand miles across the world to display their art.
The One Sky project includes landscape painters, sculptors,
ceramists and textile makers.
They have been brought together by Ingrid Pears, a glass-maker
and designer based at Thoresby Country Estate in
Nottinghamshire.
Ingrid has worked on many high profile commissions across India.
She has worked with Bollywood and with companies like Tata,
one of the biggest corporations in the world. She has also worked
on projects with individuals like the Dalai Lama and His Royal
Highness Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.
This success has given Ingrid a passion to encourage others to
share in the unique business and life-changing opportunity to
trade with India.
The artists will be meeting up with Indian partners who will
include designers, makers and sponsors. They will run workshops
in their own specialised areas in factories and studios in Delhi to
share their skills.
The project will begin with a reception at the British High
Commission in Delhi to meet some of the most important and
high profile businesses in India. This will be a chance for the
artists to showcase their portfolios and promote the project's
sponsors.
The group will also be exhibiting their work with a stand at the
prestigious India Art Summit.
After the bustle of Delhi they will head into the Himalayas to one
of the holiest regions in the country. Staying at a pilgrims'
resting place between the sacred rivers of the Ganges and
Yamuna, they will find time for quiet and reflection.
It is hoped the whole journey will inspire new work as well as
raising money for a local charity.
There is also the chance to create lasting partnerships between
the two countries. As part of the One Sky project, Indian artists
will be able to visit the UK. In a mirror image of the trip to India,
they will experience the excitement of a major city like London,
where they can display their own work, and travel out into the
English countryside , visiting the Thoresby Country Estate in
north Nottinghamshire, where the project is based.
It is a trip that is all about creating unity through diversity. The
artists are open to the profound influences it will have on their
work in the future and to the opportunities to create exciting
innovative work from mixing skills, media and culture.
To promote the project, its team includes Rob Pittam, an
experienced broadcaster and journalist on national television.
Rob spent more than 20 years as a BBC Business Correspondent
and knows that this trip will throw up many good stories and
filming opportunities. He will be using his contacts within the
BBC and the rest of the UK media to make sure they reach a wide
audience.
For more information contact Ingrid Pears:
Mobile - +44(0)7803048747,
Email - info@ingridpears.com
Website - www.ingridpears.com
