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Nettlefold Festival Trust The Nettlefold Festival Trust developed out of the partnership between Festival Directors Lawrence Casserley and Simon Desorgher. In 1984 they founded a contemporary music festival in south London, the Nettlefold Festival, which was particularly dedicated to live electroacoustic music and music theatre. In 1988, seeking to expand the scope of the festival and to reach new audiences, they formed a charitable trust to oversee their work. The most significant moment in the development of the Trust was the start of collaboration with Cwmni Colourscape, and the first Colourscape Music Festival took place on Clapham Common, London, UK in 1989. Since then the Trust have presented many Colourscape Music Festivals, numerous other events involving structures created by Cwmni Colourscape, and hundreds of educational workshops for people of all ages. We also present the ìFabulous Sound Machinesî exhibition of sound sculptures and installations, which has appeared in many galleries in the UK and abroad. Cwmni Colourscape Cwmni Colourscape is a partnership of Peter Jones and Lynne Dickens who create Colourscapes. Peter Jones developed the first Colourscape structures in 1974. Colourscapes were preceded by 'Spaceplaces' from 1963, which were installations of coloured surfaces made inside buildings. In 1970 they became open-air structures. Experiments with air-inflated sculpture gave new possibilities of working directly with colour. Early structures used large primary colour chambers interconnected by tubes. Subsequently, many different Colourscapes, have been made, growing more complex in colour relationships. Cwmni Colourscape have several Colourscape structures, which they show at festivals and other events in the UK and abroad. Cwmni Colourscape also creates and makes other structures - tensile canopies, wind sculptures and giant bubbles, all of which have generated and been part of many events. Many people have been trained with Cwmni Colourscape to make structures, to develop colour workshops and to run Colourscape shows. The collaboration The collaboration between Cwmni Colourscape and Nettlefold Festival Trust dates back to 1983, when Simon Desorgher commissioned a purpose made tube for performance. Then in 1989 Simon and Lawrence were invited to make a music presentation at London's South Bank Centre, using a Colourscape as the venue, and this led to the formation of the Colourscape Music Festivals on Clapham Common. In 1994-5 the Trust commissioned a completely new Colourscape structure, designed especially for performance, with funding from Foundation for Sport and the Arts and the National Lottery. Recently a second Colourscape was commissioned with Arts Council lottery funding. Both are used in the UK and abroad. Currently another performance structure is planned. The collaboration extends beyond the commissioning of Colourscape structures; for example, our workshops in colour, which take place in Colourscape, have evolved from direct collaboration with the Colourscape artists; and Peter Jones is a significant partner in the Fabulous Sound Machines exhibitions. History of the Trust | History of Cwmni Colourscape | History of our collaboration | Back |
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