St Mary's Christmas Art Fair 2021/2022
Meet, support and empower your local community
The aim was to facilitate with Molly Newton a community project that would unite the fractured and isolated local community. Due to massive housing development within the area, the influx and the established community there was a sense of isolation, anxiety and surmounting challenges from a year of Covid and its variants.
Positioned 12 days before Christmas 2021 to enable last minute shopping, this project was made possible due to the kind generosity of the artists who took part. It was a group effort to clear decades of accumulated waste, tidy and clean the church which had been sealed throughout Lockdown. In addition, every artist allowed 30% of their profits to go to the church to provide for future creative, cultural and wellbeing community events.
Thank you to Stour Downs Parish for the use of St Mary's community 'festival' church and to Sellindge Parish Council for clearing the overgrown graveyard and entrance.
The aim was to facilitate with Molly Newton a community project that would unite the fractured and isolated local community. Due to massive housing development within the area, the influx and the established community there was a sense of isolation, anxiety and surmounting challenges from a year of Covid and its variants.
Positioned 12 days before Christmas 2021 to enable last minute shopping, this project was made possible due to the kind generosity of the artists who took part. It was a group effort to clear decades of accumulated waste, tidy and clean the church which had been sealed throughout Lockdown. In addition, every artist allowed 30% of their profits to go to the church to provide for future creative, cultural and wellbeing community events.
Thank you to Stour Downs Parish for the use of St Mary's community 'festival' church and to Sellindge Parish Council for clearing the overgrown graveyard and entrance.
Artists: Carole Adams / Janet Aldis Vinca Brown / Sue Cooke Carol Davis / Sue Fields / Simon Guy / Laura King / Lorrain Mailer Dominique Morgan / Lesley Moss / Molly Newton / June Nolan Anne O’Driscoll / Sheba Pullar / Rebecca Reynolds / Doug Riseley Violet Sprawling / Charley Taylor |