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Generate-Activate
To reflect the huge changes planned for Dover Town in their ambitious regeneration programme, this project is themed on change and the positive energy that it generates.
Objectives
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To invite graduated and practising Fine artists from Kent to collaborate on a Dover themed public accessible project that reflects Dover’s current regeneration plans. We aim to contribute towards changing the overall visage of Dover to show how quickly and easily something can be done. While the long term planning of larger works goes on, the regenerative spirit in Dover can be kept up with works that are both highly visible and reflect the concerns and abiding issues which drive the regeneration.
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To engage with all of the people in Dover by showcasing the themed project in shop window spaces, unused buildings and open air spaces.
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To use the Charlton Shopping Centre as the main focus, to attract foot traffic that wouldn’t usually venture up to the north end of the town where the centre is based - thereby promoting a new cultural ‘feel’ to a part of the town which currently has no particular personality.
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To create a platform for emerging Kent artists in Dover to be recognised as artists, to develop their audience through the use of public space.
Artists' Fulcrum members are invited to propose an installation of new work for White Nave's ongoing Generate-Activate Project. Installations are ever-changing and can be seen in units at the Charlton Shopping Centre in the High Street.
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Works installed to date:
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Caron Ottewell - '1/49'
A fascination in the rock formations exposed when the tide goes out led Ottewell to photograph small sections in close-up. The images were then turned into finely-detailed digital drawings which draw the eye in to examine each section more closely.
When the images were combined into a larger-scale piece a new landscape emerged. This has led to an interest in exploring how something familiar may be viewed in a new way when the scale is altered.
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| Heather Defferary - Global 08 and Memorial 2008
 Defferary's works identify's her need to represent natures anxieties, changes and emotions. With this ambitiously enormous task she quietly offers tokens of understanding and acknowledgment through her two installations Global and Memorial at the Charlton Centre.
"As with my recent works over the past 2years-Ghost Huts 2007 and Trees 2006/7- 2 Series of pictures the subject that has emerged is how the world has changed and how I can't grasp the enormity of those changes globally so I have to just examine the changes 'at home' to start with".
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Darren Goodall - Poster and Frame
Found Circus Fonts, spray paint, paper and cardboard
"Graffiti is not the lowest form of art, it is actually the most honest art form available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on many of the best walls a town/city has to offer and nobody is put off by the high admission prices." BaNkSy...
Darren was invited to create a poster for White Nave which introduced the new projects at Targetfollow's Charlton Centre through their Artists' Fulcrum. The object became much more than the initial advert brief with its dramatic recycled frame and circus letters it became an installation in itself and ironically with its graffiti style it actually compliments the clean brickwork.
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| Peter Hofer - 200 image extract -Selective Perception Series
 "At the Charlton Shopping Centre I will be showing a 200-image extract (log) of the ‘selective perception series' (an image index of several 1000 images documenting urban and rural structures and architecture in Thanet and East Kent".
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Caron Ottewell - The Awakenings
Artists' Fulcrum Member Caron Ottewell visited the Charlton Shopping Centre over a period of 3 weeks. Upon each visit Ottewell added to a growing collage of paper foliage onto the window of the once used Uniform Shop, using printed forms which had been intensively selected and cut from wallpaper samples.
The completed piece represents a man-made forest very similar to that in the Disney film 'Sleeping Beauty'. Once the paper forest is lit from the inside so that the viewer may attempt to decipher what is beyond the lush façade. Ottewell's practice has, until recently, focussed on personal memories through the use of printmaking and sculpture. She describes this new work as a move away to explore an interest in using materials associated with display to create something akin to a stage, setting the scene for something about to change.
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"So sleep fell upon the enchanted castle and upon all within it, because of the Princess Briar-Rose, who lay there on her couch in the ancient tower waiting till the hundred years should be past and the Prince should come to waken her. And all round the castle there grew up a hedge of thorn, tangled with ivy, woodbine and creeping plants, so dense that from a distance it seemed like a little wood. Higher and higher it grew, closing round the castle like a wall until all that could be seen was the top of the highest tower, and the flagstaff from which the royal standard hung limp and motionless... As time went on, the people who were young when the palace was enchanted grew old and died, but they never forgot the prophecy that one of these days the sleeping Princess should awaken ; and they told the story to their children, who told it in their turn, changing it a little because it was only a tale to them. And so, after many years, the legend spread abroad to neighbouring countries, and many a young prince dreamed that it was he who was destined to break the spell and waken the sleeping Princess."
Sleeping Beauty, as told by C.S. Evans
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