West Euston Time Bank Purple Poets
writer-in-residence Kim Morrissey

ARTS FOR ALL  |   ACCESS FOR ALL
FIELD TRIP, VENUE  FIVE:

Project 5.1.

HOW TO READ A PAINTING
A CYCLE OF POEMS INSPIRED BY
THE INDIAN PORTRAIT 1560 - 1860
AND THE SINGH TWINS EXHIBITIONS
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
18.03.2010

Portraits from the Exhibition used to inspire the poems can be found in
THE INDIAN PORTRAIT: 1560-1860, edited by Rosemary Crill and Kapil Jariwala
(London: National Portrait Gallery Publications), 2010.

HOW TO READ A PAINTING
Exhibition Guide: Fran Wilde
Participants from the West Euston Time Bank Purple Poets
(workshop leader Kim Morrissey)
and the Third Age Project TAP Drama Group
(workshop leader Gary Kielty) met with NPG guide Fran Wilde
and special guest artist and resource person Jo WOnder
THE CRYPT: Workshop leaders Fran Wilde (National Portrait Gallery)
Kim Morrissey (West Euston Time Bank Writer in Residence)
additional portrait material by Heather Spears
books and resources courtesy National Portrait Gallery Outreach Programme



Purple Poet Islam Molla
drawn by  Heather Spears March 2010

FIRST DRAFTS OF THE POEMS:

LIKE A VIRGIN
(PAGE 163)
By Clement Gittens
18.03.2010

Like a Virgin Mary
she has a cross black cross
she's around thirty
she's happy

she's just happy.



SIX WOMEN
(PAGE 161)
By Jean Watt

I am amazed
that we are all together today
like amethysts
taste like rose petals
rosy, glowing, starry



SUPERSTAR
(Page169)
by Eppie Caredda
18.03.2010

I am a very distinctive man
Like a brilliant leader
In every place I go.
Loved by everyone
Men and women.
A Superstar for every age.


A TASTE OF HONEY
(PAGE 103)
By Nahar Islam
18.03.2010

I am the king
From Mugal dynasty

I am born to rule
The people of my country.

I am like a light.
My taste is gorgeous.

And I smell sweet .



SHAH JAHAN IN OLD AGE
(PAGE 103)
By Patsy Futatsugi
18.03.2010


I, Shah Jahan
Can be a king!

Like blue sky
Tasting power

The smell of Jasmine
And spice

Frame within frame
within frame.



IT WAS, IT IS, IT WILL BE
(PAGE 125)
By Islam Molla
18.03.2010

I feel power makes me great
Like the Psunami of the Indian Ocean!
Destroying human aspiration and hope
Like the Kiamat
End of the Creation


HOW TO READ A PAINTING
A CYCLE OF POEMS INSPIRED BY
THE INDIAN PORTRAIT 1560 - 1860
AND THE SINGH TWINS EXHIBITIONS
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
18.03.2010


WORKSHOP LEADERS 18.03.2010:
Fran Wilde (National Portrait Gallery)
Kim Morrissey (West Euston Time Bank Writer-in-Residence).
Resource artists: Heather Spears, Jo WOnder
CO-PRODUCERS OF THIS PROJECT:
WEST EUSTON TIME BANK PURPLE POETS
THE THIRD AGE PROJECT DRAMA (TAP)
THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

PROJECT: ARTS FOR ALL | ACCESS FOR ALL
-- working with local community galleries, libraries and museums

FIFTH FIELD TRIP (18.03.2010)
National Portrait Gallery, Saint Martins Lane
(The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, invited viewing and NPG workshop)
How to Read a Painting
workshop leaders Fran Wilde (NPG) and Kim Morrissey (WETB)
special guest artist and resource person Jo WOnder
additional artist material by Heather Spears

FOURTH FIELD TRIP (18.01.2010)
Quakers Centre Library
173 Euston Road
(Testimonies of Peace research for April 22nd, 2010 reading)

THIRD FIELD TRIP (24.05.2009)
British Museum, Great Russell Street
(Indian Summer,  Garden and Cosmos invited viewing)

SECOND FIELD TRIP (02.04.2009)
Wellcome Trust Library, Euston Road (Acts of Mercy paintings)

FIRST FIELD TRIP AND ON-GOING PROJECT (05.10.2006)
1930's Stained Glass Windows by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope,  (M.E.A. Rope)
The Crypt, Munster Square
first visit by photographer Tatiana Schenck (09.05.2009)
these windows were commissioned for St. Augustine's (Hackney)

background essay and footnotes: Art in the Crypt
SAINT LEONARD
SAINT GEORGE

Purple Poets RELATED PROJECT:  THINK PURPLE! THINK POETS!

--Purple Poet Serajul  Islam Molla reads his poem Diwali Lights (recorded at The Crypt on Saint George's Day 2009).Cally Time Bank Broker Kirsty Burns will be showcasing our first YouTube Purple Poetry Reading at the UK National Time Banking  Conference in May 2009. Hurrah! (and thanks, Kirsty!)


If you click on this link, you can see our first You-Tube film ( a co-production with Kirsty Burns from Cally Time Bank).          http://www.youtube.com/user/callynka