What are the colours of your city?
As part of this year’s Big Feast Festival 2019 we are thrilled to share an exciting new project celebrating the richness of our city: Colours of Stoke.
Created by artist Jenny Cashmore, Colours of Stoke asks you to consider what “what places are important here and what colour are they?” and invites you to help create a new, unique colour palette just for Stoke-on-Trent.
From Wedgwood blue and the terracotta of Minton tiles to red and white stripes and oatcake brown, in the lead up to The Big Feast Jenny will meet members of the community from across the city to discuss, debate and identity a rich colour palette that represents Stoke-on-Trent.
Jenny will then develop the chosen colours into a range of nail polishes all specific to the city which will be used by local student nail technicians in a pop-up Colours of Stoke Nail Salon and social space in the City Centre at August’s Big Feast to give free manicures to visitors throughout the festival.
Each visitor will leave the nail bar with little bit of Stoke imprinted on their nails.
So, what would be your Colours of Stoke?
Tell us! -> Share your #ColoursofStoke choices with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Use the hashtag #ColoursofStoke or tag in Appetite and Jenny (Instagram: @jennycashmore; Twitter: @Jenny_Cashmore; Facebook: @CashmoreJenny) and a share a pic of your choice if you have it too.
We’ll be sharing news about the development of the Colours of Stoke palette during Summer. Keep your eyes peeled and then make sure to get your nails painted in your favourite Colours of Stoke choices over the Big Feast weekend!
Jenny Cashmore is a British contemporary artist currently living on the English/Welsh border. Her artistic practice is interested in exploring our sense of place and relationship to place. She makes work that manifests in various forms including performance, intervention, lens-based mediums, and events.
Her Colours of… project made its first appearance in Llandudno in 2017 as part of Llawn 05 festival, when it was produced by CALL(cic). She is looking forward to its second manifestation in Stoke-on-Trent.
