Museum – PaleBlueDot

14 Sep 2015

Rubber Stamping

by dotpaleblue | posted in: Art, Bees, Biodiversity, Exhibitions, Learning, Multidiscipline, Museum, Printmaking | 0

We ran a Primitive Print workshop on Saturday 12th September – one of the events we created during our Lost & Found Exhibition at the Onca Centre for Arts & Ecology . The incredible Mr Stephen Fowler lead two workshops: AM for children and … Read More

8 Jul 2015

Lost & Found in Brighton

by dotpaleblue | posted in: Art, Bees, Biodiversity, Birds, Consumerism, Exhibitions, Farming, Food, Museum, Photography, Printmaking, Prof Dave Goulson, Science, Sustainable | 0

Lost & Found is a powerful and challenging multi-media installation of visual arts created by PaleBlueDot founders Jane King and Neil Mabbs, to present evidence of links between our consumer driven culture and the decline of the natural world. This … Read More

24 May 2015

What Was On

by dotpaleblue | posted in: Art, Bees, Craft, Exhibitions, Meadow, Museum, Printmaking, Science, Textiles, Weeds, Wild Flowers | 0

Exhibitions & Events May – June 2015 We’re Here Now! 2015 We’re Here Now! is BACK. Around 300 people came to the opening event at the Castle Quay Shopping Centre in Banbury. For a second year Martin Carrolchick and Neil Mabbs have taken over empty units and … Read More

1 Feb 2015

Cyanotype

by dotpaleblue | posted in: Art, Bees, Craft, Museum, Photography, Printmaking, Science, Textiles, Wild Flowers | 0

Neil Mabbs’ beautiful designs for cycle seat covers for our Bees & Weeds project are cyanotypes printed onto organic calico cloth. The wild flower illustrations are sourced from six volumes of English Botany or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, by English … Read More

21 Oct 2014

Weeds for Bees & Cycle Seats

by dotpaleblue | posted in: Bees, Education, Meadow, Museum, Weeds, Wild Flowers | 0

Bees & Weeds cycle seat intervention project is under way! Beautiful fabric prints are being created, on organically produced calico, by art foundation students at Banbury & Bicester College using a range of printing and stitching techniques. This art-science illustration … Read More

7 Oct 2014

Bees & Weeds

by dotpaleblue | posted in: Bees, Education, Museum, Prof Dave Goulson, Science | 0

On September 9th 2014 we launched our latest project – Bees & Weeds with our favourite collaborators, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Jane King and Neil Mabbs we were joined by over fifty art students from Banbury & … Read More

12 Apr 2014

Bombus!

by dotpaleblue | posted in: Bees, Biodiversity, Museum, Prof Dave Goulson | 0

Jane King has been photographing the collection of UK bumblebee species – 27 in all – at Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), for Lost & Found. Some of the specimens are very old, dating from the 19th and … Read More

30 Mar 2014

Lost & Found

by dotpaleblue | posted in: Art, Biodiversity, Consumerism, Exhibitions, Museum, Photography, Prof Dave Goulson | 0

Lost & Found is a multi-media installation created by Oxfordshire based artists Jane King and Neil Mabbs, in collaboration with scientists from Oxford University Natural History Museum and Professor Dave Goulson at the University of Sussex. The work explores … Read More

26 Feb 2013

OneOak Project

by dotpaleblue | posted in: Art, Biodiversity, Craft, Ecosystem services, Education, Exhibitions, Learning, Multidiscipline, Museum, Photography, Science, Sustainable, Woodland | 0

OneOak was an art-science project devised by Dr Gabriel Hemery, CEO of the The Sylva Foundation, a tree and forestry charity. Sylva’s vision is for Britain’s woodlands to thrive ecologically and economically for the benetit of everyone. Jane King began … Read More