Mooch's guest appearance on 'Voices on Art'
Voices on Art - Event poster - @julia_jane_heckles
Julia Jane Heckles (Left) and Theresa Smith (Right)
Julia Jane Heckles and Theresa Smith introducing the talk from Voices on Art
Since May 2022, Hold Creative Spaces in Ramsgate have been holding evening talks entitled ‘Voice on Art’, hosted by Julia Jane Heckles who is a Morley College lecturer and the resident art historian at Hold. On the 6th July 2023, Theresa Smith from Mooch was invited to contribute to the theme of that evenings talk, which was ‘Is Public Art an Imposition?’. Julia invited the audience to consider the different types of creative interventions in the public realm, how they felt and what were the positives and negatives of each of those disciplines. Opinions were voiced on issues such as plagiarism, conflict of political views and even the sheer inconvenience of an object in a public space.
Theresa was invited to share her experiences of running Mooch for the last 21 years, talking about the ups and downs of the projects that made it, and some of those that didn’t. For Theresa, it was a real pleasure to reminisce about projects like ‘The Guildford Guys’ and ‘Folkestone station’. She was very grateful for the feedback received from the Ramsgate audience on the projects that have been delivered in that seaside town, including the story of a 91 year old father of one of the audience members, who spent and hour listening and translating the morse code sound track in ‘Worse Things Happen at Sea’.
“Could literally listen to you talk about your projects all night!”
Julia was a fun and engaging host who clearly left the group better informed at the end of the evening. Thank you so much Julia and Hold for a great event.
