A delightful film in this series of creative engagements featuring fibre artist, Frieda Strachan, and filmmaker, Jason Sinclair, working this time in Ythanvale Home, Ellon.
With a focus on the experience and creative process, encouraging freedom to experiment with different materials and techniques, this project brought together residents, staff and local nursery children in a joyous, and inclusive, exploration of colour, texture, emotions, stories and creativity.
Led by Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership with continued support from Live Life Aberdeenshire's Cultural Services.
'Feeling Fine' is another joint initiative developed by Live Life Aberdeenshire’s Arts team in partnership with Aberdeenshire’s Health & Social Care Partnership, celebrating and embedding creative activity in very sheltered housing and care homes to support and promote wellbeing, building on the successes of the award-winning Felt Fine project (below).
Fibre artist Frieda Strachan and film maker Jason Sinclair, Poppycock Films, spent time in a care home in Oldmeldrum, working with residents, staff and family members. Carding, spinning and then weaving with wool, they all co-created beautiful textiles for the home, as well as sharing stories and time together.
Throughout April 2022, over 25 tenants & 10 staff in Turriff's Dawson Court Very Sheltered Housing complex worked with fibre artist Frieda Strachan and film company Poppycock Films to explore creativity as a tool for self-expression. Called 'Felt Fine', tenants were encouraged to use the tactile material of unspun wool to weave landscapes inspired by living in rural Aberdeenshire.
