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A little patch of ground
Ruth Ben-Tovim and Anne-Marie Culhane discuss two collaborative projects that focus on exchange, community and participation.
Our collaboration is as much unspoken as spoken. I first met Anne-Marie through a poster that she had made inviting people to join in with Abundance, a fruit harvesting project that she was involved in setting up in Sheffield. There was something about the attention to detail in all aspects of the poster and the communication of a beautiful, simple but very profound idea - to collect the glut of fruit growing on trees across a city and redistribute it - that attracted my attention. I kept seeing that poster all over Sheffield. I kept smiling like I do when I see a powerful piece of original artwork that brings a shift of perspective and touches me. I was excited that this was an artist-led idea but dealing with the bigger picture and relational concerns. The work I was focusing on when we met in 2008 (taking over disused shops in Sheffield and reopening them as spaces for people of all ages and backgrounds to drop in and share stories, memories, ideas, collections about everyday life) seemed to chime with Abundance - in its impulse to reach out beyond a conventional art world context and re-frame something that has being neglected or forgotten. I think we still share these...
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