FRED’s blog

FRED came out early at the weekend at MIMA in Middlesbrough. Freerange Artists sold art food - or is that food art? - in an art / farmers market devised by Bob & Roberta Smith. There were loaves of FRED bread, XXX eggs, Organ-ic marmalade and currant short of a fruit cakes. All made from organic and fairtrade produce supplied by local producers in Cumbria. More than that, we got to meet loads of other FRED artists and generally had a lovely day in the sunshine. The eggs and bread didn’t last long and only a handful of the other stuff had to come home. If you missed this outing, Freerange Artists will be out and about throughout FRED selling more tasty treats.

Just stumbled upon the work of Massimo Silenzio and was knocked sideways by it. Basically it’s a large field of lights laid out at the Circus Maximus, Rome. I’ve been to Roma a couple of times and the Circus is really, really big. This must have looked gorgeous. A candidate for FRED 2008? The website is here if you want to see more.

so it’s a good job they run an arts festival then..

Here’s Team FRED 2007 (from left - right) Bryan Eccleshall (co-ordinator), Rich Webster (co-ordinator), Richeldis Messam (co-founder and supervision / training), Steve Messam (co-founder and director), Helen Fletcher (co-ordinator), Hannah Stewart (administration). We had a nice chilled day out at Acorn Bank to escape the mountain of paperwork and Bryan was the only one who brought a camera. Seemed a good idea at the time…