News

We are very pleased to have won the 5 way pitch for the re branding of the Thelma Hulbert Gallery. The newly refurbished gallery in East Devon is due to open in May 2010.

Fire & Ice will be closed from Tuesday 22nd Dec and open 4th Jan 2010. have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our lovely clients.

Simon has been appointed as lead artist to work on his third Play Path Finder commission for Portsmouth City Council at Tamworth Field near Milton Common. Work will commence Jan 2010.

Simon’s special feature in the December edition of Play in the South East can now be found here:

http://www.playengland.org.uk/southeast/play-in-the-south-east-dec-09.pdf

Entry Level artwork is now complete and is due to be launched with the new front of house and newly landscaped Somerset Square end of November early December.

Simon has been commissioned by Portsmouth City Council  as lead artist on Milton Common which is part of Central Government funded Playfinder scheme.

Installation of the Chalk Pit artwork takes place next week in Paulsgrove, Portsmouth. Simon is working with Chrysalis Landscaping to install ‘Newt pond archipeligo’, ‘Evolving interpretation’, and ‘Three places to rest’.

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First thoughts: Sandwiched between the Radars of Portsdown and the residential houses of Paulsgrove the white of the chalk cuts through a thin blanket of green on the surface.

The view from Safe Nafe’s garden on Rockrose Way is a wall of chalk rising into the sky, seen from another angle in Kris Kerkhofs depiction of the ‘White cliffs of Portsmouth.’ Looking closely there is a white van turning up Lime Grove, resisting the draw of a walk on the dusty path, and two figures on the edge of the green, at first glance people, taking the dog for a walk or just enjoying a stroll on a late summers afternoon, but on closer inspection they look like some kind of inanimate objects, a bin or a sign, the resolution isn’t good enough for me to tell.

My understanding of this place is courtesy of Google earth and occasional journeys down the M27. I can see a landscape built from removal, abandonment, growth, re-colonisation and new life. The wind, the butterflies and the smell of the sea. http://chalkpitart.blogspot.com/

We have been working with the charity and photographer Angus Deuchar to produce the 2010 calendar.

“We hope to produce a calendar every year, featuring different theatre departments. It seemed natural to start with the first people you meet walking into the theatre, the stage door-keepers. Box office next year?”

We are very excited as we have keys to our new premises. We will be working with local architects Boon Brown for the initial stages.