Chris and Jennie Dennett specialise in creating playful, interactive community art. This is a place to document their creative projects, events and experiments.
Created for the inaugural Windermere Science Festival reacting to the theme of water.
Interactive digital exhibit for the Florence Arts Centre's Fruitful exhibition - 19th Feburary - 29th March 2022.
Dorothy Wordsworth Light Sculpture in Cockermouth for the Kirkgate Arts 'I Am Dorothy' project.
Pixel portraits of Alfred Wainwright and Shauna Coxsey in Kendal Library for Kendal Mountain Festival.
Four giant Dorothy Wordsworth portraits by 120 children with 13,000 stickers!
"Humanity is no more, but LAMO (Local Automated Museum Outpost) Continues..." Part of The Coro's Shed Installation 'Our Earth' project in Ulverston, August 2021.
Like Kintsugi, but instead of mending pottery with gold, a toy was fixed with oddness!
A tiny digital art exhibit - our entry for The Great Big Art Exhibition.
Website made for a virtual photo exhibition for the Glasgow National Park City folks.
PAINT and PLAY! - A web game generated using artwork painted by users for the Jetty Museum.
Days of Living Small - A display of Cumbrian lockdown poetry.
Experimenting with webcam Kaleidoscopes.
On June 18th 2016, Ulverston splatted its way into the Record books by staging the World’s Largest Shaving Cream Pie Fight.
Everyday history captured by eight Cumbrian diarists
Will you let the Gill Witch 'borrow' your face for Halloween?!
A community portrait of Nella Last, Housewife 49 in Barrow Library made from 25,000 ration token stickers (Up for Arts Cumbria/Cumbria Library Service).
Trump means Trump! A parping tower triggered by a golf ball for Barrow's Full of Noises festival.
Creating a human rollercoaster flash mob for Another Fine Fest.
A painted pixel portrait of John Ruskin and a sticker portrait of Jodie Whittaker created for the Get Creative Festival at Kendal Library.
Throwing shapes with some webcam trickery at Doodle and Dance in Carlisle for the Get Creative Festival with Zoe Leigh-Gadd of Dance Ahead.
First experiments making pixel portraits.
In commemoration of the young men of Dalton killed in WW1. A Heritage Lottery Fund project with Up for Arts Cumbria & Dalton Town Council.
Mixing and matching eyes, ears and mouths in gruesome proportions.
How to make some beautiful biodegradable baubles.
Face Tracing in Gateshead for BBC Radio 3's 2018 Free Thinking Festival on the theme 'The One and the Many' for Get Creative with Up for Arts Cumbria.
An echoing box of machinery with a ghost!
Dancing in the street with giant bananas! A fruity flashmob for Another Fine Fest 2017 created with Rachael Weaver, Sara Charlesworth and a whole basket of brilliant volunteer bananas.
A giant community paint by numbers created with PBN master Geoff Tristram for the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival with Up for Arts Cumbria.
A digital thing showing people as a cloud of points or a line drawing for Ulverston's Candlelit Walk.
Our short film competition entry... that didn't win.
I can't remember why I made this, but make it I did.
"So long, long fish". My first plot using my Inkscape clone-tinkered tiles. Bit slippery getting the little blighters back into my tiling code, but got there in the end!
Growing veins in shapes! Or roots in spaces!
Quick QR Treasure Hunt Clue maker web thing for house-bound fun.
Projection Mapping + Origami = Glowing wall Pyramids!
Just before you slap it on social media why don't you slap it in a giant gold frame!
Wiggly SVG line maker in the style of Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" Album cover.
There’re so many possibilities with Truchet tiles
Generative art with or without... grout!
Making our car less boooooooooooooooooooring!
We made a web app to weave photos together in strips. With it you can make some interesting interlaced images or print+fold+glue to create a two-faced zig-zag picture thing called an Agamograph.
Counting to 10 is soooo base 10! Let's go higher with some binary goodness.
Bin painting bin.
Early toy puking stop motion experiment.
Basically this is our todo list made public!