A three month season of visual art, poetry and classical music has begun in Crawley, to bring colour and activity to the town centre during the winter months.
Art in Unexpected Places is the theme for the season, which will see classical music in a shopping centre, giant flower murals, manga art and poetry workshops popping up in unexpected places.
The event started yesterday (Nov 1) and will run until January 31st, 2022.
The public will find art and creativity in such places as County Mall, the former ASK restaurant on the High Street and on the streets of the town centre, all for the public to stumble across and enjoy for free.
The backbone of the season is a large scale, specially commissioned mural made by Baker & Borowski, a Sussex-based artist curator partnership between sculptor and platemaking specialist Catherine Borowski and painter and music producer Lee Baker. They're on a mission to bring 'unexpected eruptions of art into the everyday urban landscape'. See pictures below.
There will also be Give it a Go workshops, with paper cutting, manga art and poetry and a classical music ensemble playing a 20 minute winter concert on the hour and the half hour in County Mall.
Speaking about the season, producer and curator and Creative Director of Creative Crawley, Louise Blackwell says:
“Through our partnership with Crawley Town Centre BID, it’s an honour to bring the town centre to life through arts and culture. We started in the summer with the Stories of Strength season, celebrating the strength of people in Crawley and now I can’t wait for local people toexperience some art in unexpected places."
Wendy Bell, BID Manager, Crawley Town Centre BID says:
“We are delighted to bring colour and life to the Town Centre through this innovative fun concept, lightening and brightening up dull days in the winter will make businesses and residents feel optimistic and uplifted, just watching the team putting it up; there were so many smiling faces and positivity; we are grateful to Creative Crawley for making this vision into a reality.”
Lee Baker, artist, Baker and Borowski says:
“When we started Graphic Rewilding, we dreamed of doing whole street giant flower takeovers, and now in Crawley we've been given the opportunity. Our intention has always been to bring the explosive colour and joy of nature into urban environments and we wanted to imbue the street with sumptuous seasonal atmosphere’’
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