for full press and contact info please download press release below
how big are the ashes to you_PRESS RELEASE
see videos of the project at:http://www.youtube.com/freddieyauner
and ongoing images at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9340785@N03/
see main body of the press release below.
HOW BIG ARE THE ASHES TO YOU?
Artist in residence Freddie Yauner will engage with match day crowds during the first test match of the Ashes by asking them to draw the ashes urn.
8th July – 12th July 2009
Glamorgan Cricket Club
Cardiff
CF11 9XR
To mark the occasion of the first Ashes Test to be played in Wales, Freddie Yauner has been awarded The Ashes Residency Commission. He will produce an artwork deriving from a residency period leading up to, and during the npower Ashes.
Yauner, who has been in residence in Cardiff for three weeks, was inspired by a quote from the “The npower Ashes come to Cardiff” exhibition in Cardiff “Never judge anything by its size. The npower Ashes are one of the smallest prizes in world sport, yet they have a massive meaning”.
Yauner said “By asking the crowd to draw the ashes urn at the correct size, I will show the perceived size of the prize, recording the difference between what it means to win the ashes and the urn’s actual size.”
The hundreds of drawings gathered over the 5 days of the test will be used as a key element contributing towards the final legacy artwork in the stadium. People will be able to follow the developments of the project and even participate themselves on the artists residency blog -http://www.waleshoststheashes.wordpress.com
Freddie Yauner is an exciting young artist who graduated last year from the Royal College of Art. He made news headlines last year when he gained a world record after producing a range of excessive consumer products. Yauner, who is a cricket fan himself, is excited that the project will reinforce the values that cricket and the npower ashes still maintains. When the world wants to super-size everything, cricket teaches fair play and the value of achievement for its own good rather than for the prize available.
The project draws on the successes of ‘The Big Draw’ events, using drawing as a tool for thought, creativity, social and cultural engagement.
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