The Lively Project – Material Objects on the Journey of Life

The idea for The Lively Project came after reading ‘Ammonites and leaping fish: a life in time’, by Penelope Lively. In that book, Penelope Lively highlights six treasured possession which reflect who she is and where she has been. We are running a pilot project in Northern Ireland based on these ideas.  Funded by the Wellcome Trust, the project ran from July 2016 to January 2017.

Six participants were asked to:   have a face-to-face conversation with a researcher about the objects which mean most to them; take part in a one-day workshop with visual artist Gemma Hodge, to photograph, draw or make a cast of one of the objects; participate in an exhibition of the participants’ and the artist’s work. The Lively team are: Gemma Carney (Principal Investigator), Queen’s University Belfast Lorraine Calderwood, Arts Council of Northern Ireland Paula Devine, Queen’s University Belfast Leonie Hannan, Queen’s University Belfast Gemma Hodge, Visual Artist

The exhibition took place in the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast and the launch event was held on Wednesday 7 December 2016.

For more information, visit the Lively Project WordPress site.