The local community were invited to come and join local activist and dance artist Deane McQueen in series of movement workshop sessions aimed at women over the age of 50 years of age living in and around the city of Nottingham.
During the weekly sessions they where invited to come together to imagine, watch, think, share and move together to tell the project narrative of the cotton mill workers and the enslaved cotton pickers. From this group of local women we selected two to volunteer to be the models for the new bronze sculpture where they will be immortalised in bronze as part of the new sculpture.
The dance group worked with a fantastic collective of community stitchers who created long skirts for the dancers to experience and then worked together to create historical costumes for the two models.
“I want to extend congratulations to every member of the dance group. Your significant range of interpersonal skills made you a joy to work with as a group, each contribution building into a collective work ethic. So warm and generous. The result speaks for itself. Rachel is clearly thrilled and you should be. Fantastic concept realised by fantastic women. The digital bronze statue is breathtaking! ”
Phase 1 delivery
Rachel Carter